The killer features of FriendFeed continue. Today, the service has just added a way to share files on the service. So now it’s just as easy to share a PDF or text file as it is to share a picture. “You can attach (almost) any file to your FriendFeed posts via the web interface or by emailing file attachments to share@friendfeed.com,” FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor says.
And what’s really great about this is that using FriendFeed direct messaging aspect, you can easily transfer files to certain individuals, or groups of people at the same time.
Unfortunately, it looks like you can’t do things like share movies, but it can share MP3 files, which is awesome. And yes, those MP3s can be played inline right from within FriendFeed. The obvious question is, will this lead to PiracyFeed? You can, after all, download these MP3s after they are shared. Though one-at-time songs might be a little tedious for rabid piracy.
Update: Apparently, you can only upload 3 MP3s a day, which is FriendFeed’s attempt to prevent all-out piracy. And as of right now you can only play actual MP3 files on FriendFeed, but Taylor notes that he hopes to add M4A (AAC) files soon, so that iPhone voice memos are supported.
Here’s more from Taylor:
We have a rolling 24-hour upload limit, so if you upload a number of big files, you will eventually hit it.
We have stricter limit on audio file uploads (3 per day per user now, but it could change in the future). Regarding copyrighted materials, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable intellectual property law (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. You can see details of our policy here: http://friendfeed.com/about/dmca.
Our target users for this launch are the people using FriendFeed groups for collaboration, so we optimized the feature for sharing smaller documents, not just media files.
Friendfeed keeps adding killer features. Wonder how long it’s gonna take facebook to copy this one?
Nice! FriendFeed is so much better than Twitter. I think Twitter will become infrastructure to the realtime Web. FriendFeed gets has it right when it comes to features and UI.
“Unfortunately, it looks like you can’t do things like share movies”
– MG its not unfortunate. It’s by design. What are you smoking?
Hi MG,
It could lead to piracy, there’s a possibility if they are not careful. But overall its a great feature. Other social networking sites might follow FriendFeed soon.
Thanks for the short but great post.
Mani Raj
Havoc Marketing
Bravo FriendFeed! They continue to quietly innovate, while others get most of the hype. Great news.
Will see if it draws new users
I’ve shared three mp3’s already… but they are mine so it’s not like the RIAA can come after me.
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The upload and automatic warning about file size is a nice feature. Maybe they can get really fancy and sniff out the ID3 data tag container information from mp3’s too.
yeah i really hope the RIAA doesn’t come sniffing around, it’s awesome for sharing music.
I would love for Facebook to add this so music can be easily uploaded & shared with friends via status page; conversations about said music would be able to occur.
Though not sure how long this feature will be around as the RIAA we’ll sure to whack it unless FF pays them.
can you just deadpool friendfeed already? or does arrington use it and he cant do that, even though the site gets no uniques per month?
why cant they add scribd and docstoc file sharing features. would be nice integration.
Nice feature, especially the ability to upload Voice memos as well as been having a laugh with them lately…
So on the one hand we have “German courts” suing Rapidshare for allowing users to share 5000+ songs etc.
People then commenting its about time.
Now we have friendfeed allowing people to share mp3s.
All makes sense.
MG, thank you for giving me my two seconds of Internet fame!