Real Time is the new black. Everyone’s doing it, or wants to be doing it. Even Google says it’s one of the biggest challenges in search today (making sense of all that real time data).
So it isn’t surprising that people are making fun of it. Jonathan Abrams (who has mocked Incubators of Incubators and Feed aggregators, now goes after Real Time with FutureFeed, which “answers the simple question: What will you be doing?”
“Are you sick of hearing what your friends are doing after the fact?” FutureFeed asks. “FutureFeed tells you what your friends are doing before they do it!”
Like Google Future Search, this is a joke. And it’s a good one, at least for those of us who’ve jumped on the Real Time bandwagon and haven’t looked back. Enjoy.
When he’s not mocking the Internet, Jonathan builds a real startup at Socializr.
I like it now! I’ll discover if I’ll like it later.
As they say, no matter where you go, there you are!
Awesome! I love this! FutureFeed is damn innovative and definitely a great mockery of real-time (future-time also). But knowing what everyone wants to do will be fun indeed. You would get all weird updates and get to know (in course of time) you are more real and rooted to ground than many people in the world.
I think that his fake startups are twice as commercially viable as a good portion of what was built in the the Web 2.0 bubble.
just think now you can know what everyone wants to do, wants to buy, will be buying, etc – so sit back and laugh all the way to the bank. On second thought….
I wonder how many people will actually be disappointed when they’ll find out that a sign up button is missing.
This joke was done somewhere else, I can’t remember where. At least someone made it.
Excellent new, website I will have to give this one a try.
I’ve (apparently) loved this service for 4-6 months now. The ways that I (apparently) use it have transformed how I interface with the internet for (apparently) life.
A little off topic, but this is classic:
http://www.theo...ource=a-section
Brilliant, the onion makes the internet worth… internetting.
I love The Onion.
nice
– tired signing up for private beta and got schooled – there goes early retirement.
@itbay
The goal would be to make it real.
If he took it seriously, it’s the next best thing into where Polling should go.
Instead of “What Will You Be Doing?” — rather,
“Who Will You Be Voting For?” — Real Time Polling
or a “Did you Do X Yet” — time of deal.
I think that would really take off. But do it in a way that not only mines the data but cleanses it, and is more accurate. No fake names, no fake identities, etc.
Seems like a very savvy way for him to increase the Page Rank of a bunch of anti-Evite sites. (See bottom of page.) Same thing with FriendFeedFeed. It all makes sense now…
My new project is coming soon:
Who will you fuck tonight?
Hahahaha
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amazing service
I saw this tomorrow.
The sad part is: There are a lot of people on Twitter who probably are predictable enough for a convincinng FutureFeed to work. (I have a friend’s wife I follow; more than half her tweets are about doing homework or what she’s watching on TV.)
What’s wrong with using Twitter this way? My wife updates her status everyday at around 8am to let me know she arrived safely at work. And I check on it at 5pm to see if she left work. Her stream may be completely useless to you, but it’s more useful to me than the random “interesting” stuff that appears in my feed.
Very cool startup but I think I´m sticking with http://www.twibeo.com for my updates
Is this really that funny? Isn’t a “future feed” almost like calendar sharing? When you share things you’re going to do via Gcal, Evite, or FB Events, you are sharing things in the future that haven’t happened yet.
Thanks to Jonathan’s FutureFeed I knew he was going to build it and I knew that Michael would write about it…and so it goes.
Damn it. I feel for it. I actually wanted to sign up, but I don’t have Netscape or the updated version of Chrome which it requires.
TechMunch is always on the ball. It is (and will be) one of my most admired sources of information.
I read about this next week…
In the future I would like my feed to read that Yahoo has decided to buy http://www.worstpizza.com, and then my next future feed will say YES I accept
I’m going to like this on Nov 11th… but not yet.
I read all this last year