DISQUS

Matthias · 1 year ago

Good to know me among your "stronger ties" on Facebook, Vince! Concering FriendFeed it's nice to see that nothing dramatic has changed. :-)

Vincent van Wylick · 1 year ago

Well technically, you're a stronger tie for me on FriendFeed and other net-services… :)



I also think that FriendFeed is better designed for interaction than Facebook. The latter is for people looking for friends, an address-book, and the first is for people looking to express themselves.

Maurelita · 1 year ago

The thing is where to surface one's feeds in the end ? Jaiku gets already my blogs, Last FM and delicious ; FriendFeed has Jaiku plus facebook status if I remember correctly, but do I also want to bring in my blog posts into fb etc etc etc...



Endless circles with feeds and lifestreaming !



At one point I thought I'd microblog in Finnish @ Jaiku, in English on fb but where do I put my French ideas then ? Hmmm.

Kari Silvennoinen · 1 year ago

I was also pondering about writing in English in twitter and in Finnish in Jaiku (and in Canadian in Identi.ca, eh?) but the overhead is just too much. The other problem is that there would be two different audiences (even if their size would be roughly zero) with different interests. Way too much overhead.



A year ago the obvious response to question about the end of the streams would've been one's own website. Today, I'd say that's been replaced with Facebook, Friendfeed et al. Because things change so rapidly, my advice is to go with the one where you can still export (or streamify) your content (ie. not facebook).

Ryan Graves · 1 year ago

Its an interesting argument here. I guess its different for those who joined FB when in college (not sure if you did or not) but all my FB friends are college buddies who post pictures I don't really want the world to see, I might be intoxicated. However on FF I follow big name bloggers, entrepreneurs, and social media guys...much different crowd and much different content.

check out my blog if interested: http://ryanagraves.com

Vincent van Wylick · 1 year ago

I have the same attitude towards Facebook, close friends only. FriendFeed is more open, but I notice that I interact much more with people there than I did on Twitter, and also than I do on Facebook, where's it's more about static pages.

Kari Silvennoinen · 4 months ago

> The thing is that the more both FriendFeed and Facebook evolve, the less I can tell them apart anymore.

You know, Vince, this post suddenly became relevant again (just noticed in the daily popular list). You called it a year before Facebook acquired Friendfeed.