Comments on: FriendFeed Over IM: Kill Me Now

By: DUSTIN SCHONFELD

DUSTIN SCHONFELD — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:04:16 +0000

O.M.G

By: Ajax Girl » Blog Archive » Bonjour, FriendFeed, Que Tal?

Ajax Girl » Blog Archive » Bonjour, FriendFeed, Que Tal? — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:09:55 +0000

[...] be adding more languages in the future, enabling more people to find the right settings to turn off IM updates, for [...]

By: Bonjour, FriendFeed, Que Tal?

Bonjour, FriendFeed, Que Tal? — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:20:19 +0000

[...] be adding more languages in the future, enabling more people to find the right settings to turn off IM updates, for [...]

By: sometimes sharing is not caring | varnelis.net

sometimes sharing is not caring | varnelis.net — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:30:26 +0000

[...] from Delicious to Flickr to Facebook) is crushing him. He points to a post by Techcrunch blogger Eric Schonfeld (curiously, someone I knew in college) about Friendfeed in which Schonfeld similarly calls for help [...]

By: FriendFeed Over IM: Kill Me Now at PRADA

FriendFeed Over IM: Kill Me Now at PRADA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:56:06 +0000

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By: G

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:58:16 +0000

“But please kill me now.” – Erick – one of your better post titles and on mark. cheers -

By: phenom

phenom — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:59:03 +0000

Adding more noise traffic.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: JD

JD — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:17:53 +0000

Staring above on my browser I see; Gmail, Twitter Tab, Google Reader, FriendFeed, and Skype down the bottom.

What we all need is Clone… Only a clone as an assistant to filter all of the above will understand which information from the above should even get through in the first place.

I hear the argument of turn it off and get a life, but its never black or white… and when you work for yourself time management and balance between social networking and work is all the more important.

Maybe one of the Techies reading this can invent a multi platform app that LEARNS from your habits and prioritizes the information from your emails all the way through to wading through the tropical forest of someones armpit/forum thread.

By: Dina

Dina — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:04:22 +0000

Erick, you have this exactly right – and thank you for letting us know that sometimes too much information is exactly that. Let’s give people some chance to be proactive rather than reactive on comments, tweets, uploads, etc….

By: Dario Salvelli

Dario Salvelli — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:40:13 +0000

Killer App? Yes, killer…

By: Help, We’re Being Digitally Bombarded | Mark Evans

Help, We’re Being Digitally Bombarded | Mark Evans — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:57:03 +0000

[...] the digital world, I thought I was alone in my “digital overload” thesis until seeing TechCrunch’s Erik Schonfeld on Friendfeed introducing an instant-messaging tool. FriendFeed ultimately is a communication [...]

By: Do You Need Friendfeed IM? | Twitterrati

Do You Need Friendfeed IM? | Twitterrati — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:21:02 +0000

[...] a great synopsis by TechCrunch’s Erik Schonfeld: FriendFeed ultimately is a communication platform, so adding IM was inevitable. But please kill me [...]

By: william

william — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:02:53 +0000

Laconi.ca has had this feature since they launched; so friend feed has not done anything new….they only added/copied an existing feature of a competitor; something the seem to do well.

Friend Feed is not Open Source and therefore in my view is not “Open”….in this case they are “Open” in a myspace or facebook style…They want your actions and your content to raise their valuation in in return they will give you nothing; not even the source code to the application that you have given value. To me Friend Feed as nothing more than web 2.0 Share cropping system.

We are going to take on Friend Feed as well as Twitter. Our Application is Open Source and we also give part of our revenue back the community….

The site is here http://www.adelph.us
The blog is here http://adelph.u...alpha/the-blog/

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:11:43 +0000

FriendFeed folks don’t want you to do anything so you don’t become their competition… lol.

Seriously, if you’re using FriendFeed, you have TOO MUCH TIME on your hands!

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:10:54 +0000

You do not even know what friendfeed is and your consistent spamming to the tech crowd here makes no sense.

Please say something useful or go away.

By: Arasmus

Arasmus — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:14:20 +0000

I agree that this is . . . ridiculous. This medium does not present the information in a relevant context, in fact it so irrelevant that is annoying rather than helpful. That brings me to my point. It seems to me that a more relevant place for this information is an Address Book or whatever interpretation you want to put on that be it client application or web-based application. Thus I can see what my friend in Australia has been up to, when I am about to email him, receive an email from him, think about calling him etc. Watching Google contacts grows has been like watching water dry but I think one of the things that could be added to that part of Gmail is an equivalent to FriendFeed.

By: EH

EH — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:33:33 +0000

Not a lot going on with startups these days and Jerry Yang just had a big week. What else is there?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:08:13 +0000

Why does TC insist on posting stories on things that they think are crappy or dumb? This post is a perfect example of “too much noise”. Erick is right in that this is just overkill for everyone, and probably no one will use it. So why post about it? Why waste our time with something that you think sucks and that no one will use?

By: Loren's Mom

Loren's Mom — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:51:23 +0000

All the “twitter” features should have been added to IM clients in the first place. In fact, MSN IM or Yahoo IM should do that now and kill the little guys.

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:46:00 +0000

Erick, thanks for sharing this news. I’ve been carefully avoiding FriendFeed for a while for this very reason … I was dreading this feature.

Now I think I can’t resist it.

By: Ian Alexander

Ian Alexander — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:45:55 +0000

Scoble is going to spank you for the less noise comment.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:40:07 +0000

12 times a day? Nah, I just leave the FriendFeed tab open all day, every day

By: Income Tax India

Income Tax India — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:37:52 +0000

I agree its a lot of noise. I would not want that…

By: Ken Sheppardson

Ken Sheppardson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:19:49 +0000

Speaking of competing/complimentary services, Dustin Sallings (twitterspy and identspy) and I launched a service on Tuesday that also provides FriendFeed via XMPP. We’ll be adding more features and track functionality over the next few days.

http://www.enjit.com

By: Brian roy

Brian roy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:57:21 +0000

Yep. That is why filters (what was known as Track on Twitter) is so important. That is what I’m solving for… even if the existing services are not. Information Discovery is about getting the information you want in a way that allows you to digest it.
We will be sending our filtered FF stream to IM starting Monday.
http://ff-filte...ed.cosinity.com