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FriendFeed Not Dead, Just In A State Of “Chrysalis,” Says Co-founder
This weekend, a number of people had things to say about the decay and seemingly inevitable death of FriendFeed. That included us, twice. While this was going on, the FriendFeed team remained largely silent, even on their own product. But today, co-founder Paul Buchheit has responded. Naturally, in a FriendFeed ...
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A Nice Big FriendFeed Bug: Impersonate Anyone!
There’s quite a big vulnerability with FriendFeed right now. Using the FriendFeed By Email function, apparently anyone can post a message as anyone else on FriendFeed. For example, someone posted this pretending to be FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor. Obviously, this is a huge security problem. When it was spotted just ...
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FriendFeed Updates API, Gets Bought, What Next?
It’s rare that developers question using a useful and innovative API that just graduated from its “beta” tag. But that may be the case with FriendFeed, which stole its own spotlight when it was acquired by Facebook. The new FriendFeed API v2.0 has a host of promising new features, the ...
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FriendFeed Cofounder Paul Buchheit Discusses Facebook Acquisition (video)
Robert Scoble and I ran into freshly-acquired FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit at a brunch on Sunday. I pulled out my trusty Android myTouch and with his permission asked him a few questions about the sale to Facebook a week ago. Apologies for the audio quality - Powerset’s Barney Pell, ...
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I Can Now Make FriendFeed As Ugly As I Want
When FriendFeed launched new themes back in June, I wanted but one feature: The ability to create my own. Today, I got my wish. Despite being purchased by Facebook for close to $50 million earlier this week, FriendFeed is still rolling out new features. Today brings customizable themes, which allow ...
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FriendFeed Alternative Streamy Hammered By New Traffic
Two years ago, we were the first to review Streamy, a social media service that has been reinvented once or twice. Back in 2007, it was considered a Digg Digg competitor. Last year though, they reinvented themselves into a social media aggregator and online news reader. Sound ...
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FriendFeed Users Shocked by Facebook Acquisition
Often when a company is acquired, its users celebrate all the new resources the site will have, and congratulate the founders on their success. But this isn’t the way it’s shaping up on FriendFeed, where many users saw FriendFeed as a better alternative to Facebook, and express the very ...
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Facebook Takes FriendFeed To Take On Twitter
So, Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. But what does it mean? Well despite the rhetoric of some that this is a minor deal because FriendFeed’s audience was small compared to that of its acquirer Facebook, or even Twitter, this deal should actually have some wide-reaching implications for the future of how ...
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First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook
Details on the Facebook acquisition of Friendfeed story that we broke earlier today are still coming in. But we had a chance to talk with Friendfeed cofounder Bret Taylor (pictured right) and Facebook VP Products Chris Cox a few minutes ago to discuss the deal and the product integration plans ...
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Bored With FriendFeed? Shut The Duck Up. (By Shooting It)
No matter what you think of FriendFeed (killer app or a waste of time), you have to admit this is just kind of awesome. The site has just released a new theme today called “Duck Hunt.” That in and of itself would just be kind of cute, but pointless. Except ...
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FriendFeed Adds A Mob Tear Gas Option With “Disable Comments”
Just to follow up on our story from Friday, FriendFeed has now implemented the feature that will allow you to disable comments on individual threads. This move is in response to ours and others’ concerns that while FriendFeed’s real-time commenting component is great for conversation, it also can fuel the ...
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FriendFeed Promises Penicillin For The “Syphilis” — We Sign Up Again
So. Maybe you read Michael’s rant about FriendFeed being like syphilis. His point was that its brilliant technology which facilitates real-time discussions is also perfect for mobs. Mobs that rally around hot topics, and get whipped up into saying fairly awful things about people they don’t really know. I’ve written ...
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FriendFeed Adds Real-Time Search Results
Social activity aggregator FriendFeed FriendFeed, which re-designed earlier this year to show updates from friends in real-time, has just extended that same functionality to search. Now, when you search for a given term – like “Michael Jackson†– you’ll see updates from FriendFeed users stream in real-time in your ...
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How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service
FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other ...
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FriendFeed Makes Its Search Results Real-Time Too
Ever since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That’s because while a lot of sites claim to be real-time, FriendFeed is one of the few that actually updates continuously as data comes in. Starting today, any search you do ...
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Oh FriendFeed, What You Really Need is Accountability
Last month, we posed the question " are trolls ruining social media? " - a topic that seems to have reared its ugly head once again over the weekend, this time with a specific focus on FriendFeed and the supposed angry mobs that form there. But let's get real for ...
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FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs
People have always been inclined to join mobs - most people have at least one story to tell about a time that they got swept up in or had to face a crowd demanding justice for one thing or another (both of my experiences were in college). The Internet has ...
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FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s
Everyone's Robert Scoble 's favorite real-time microblogging service, FriendFeed, is now allowing users to post and download many kinds of files through their site. Sadly, video files are not on the list of accepted formats. Yet. And users can only upload three MP3s in a 24-hour period. However, other file ...
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FriendFeed Blocked In Iran, The Service’s Most Active Region
By now, you’ve probably heard all about the controversy surrounding the Iranian election and subsequent protests. If not, check here for a solid roundup. And you’ve probably also heard how this has spilled over into the tech world because Twitter has been one of the key points of contact between ...
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Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed
It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times as many unique monthly visitors as FriendFeed ...
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Don’t Fight The Stream: Facebook And FriendFeed Redesigns Are Paying Off
When Facebook redesigned its homepage in early March in a wholehearted embrace of the real-time activity stream as its primary user interface, everybody complained. “Why on earth does the world need 2 Twitters?,” asked one of my friends on Facebook. Twitter-envy aside, some early data suggests that embracing ...
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FriendFeed Enables People/Group Tracking
While Twitter is busy removing features, or half removing them, or whatever — FriendFeed continues its relentless pace at adding new ones. The latest one today is small, but potentially very, very useful. Basically, you can now get emails/IMs/pop-up notifications from any group or individual user on FriendFeed. While it ...
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Twitter And FriendFeed Battle For Downtime. Scoble’s Head Explodes.
We all know about Twitter’s downtime today. It was a scheduled maintenance service that was supposed to last for about an hour. Sure enough, after about an hour, Twitter came back — but only partially. Over the past hour since it’s been back, it’s been up and down, but mostly ...
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FriendFeed Beta Becomes Regular FriendFeed. Hope You Like Real-time.
Earlier this month, FriendFeed opened the beta testing area of its site to test a major redesign and a big new feature: Real-time updates. Today, it has removed the beta label from the new features, and pushed them live to the regular site. Initially, there was quite a bit of ...
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Twitter Working On A New Tweet Feed, Testing It With FriendFeed
If you’ve been a user of FriendFeed for the past few months, you’ve probably noticed how slow the importing of tweets has been. But something changed a couple days ago — tweets started showing up almost instaneously in feeds, after they were posted on Twitter. That’s because FriendFeed is testing ...
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The New FriendFeed: Real-Time, Direct Messages, Better Filters
FriendFeed opened up a new beta today that introduces a completely revamped real-time user interface, as well as a number of interesting new features, including direct messages, the ability to share posts more selectively, better searches and filters, as well as a number of other smaller changes that make the ...
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FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
FriendFeed is a wonderful application that allows users to track what their friends are doing online. Photos, videos, blog posts and anything else that’s published online with a RSS feed can be brought into the service and viewed by anyone who wants to subscribe to you. And the FriendFeed ...
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New FriendFeed: Simpler, Faster, Better (Maybe Too Fast)
FriendFeed cofounder Paul Bucheit was recently asked what it was like to be the R&D department for Facebook. His response was appropriately humble, but you can’t help but wonder how long it will be before Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed all start to look pretty much identical as the services simply ...
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5 Startup Tips From the Father of Gmail and FriendFeed
Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it. I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his work on ...
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HOW TO: Connect With the FriendFeed Community
Collaborative help for this guide was provided by Mona Nomura, a prominent member of the FriendFeed community. Perhaps you’ve heard about FriendFeed over the last few months. Perhaps you’ve been intrigued by its ability to aggregate all of your social media and social networking feeds all into one place. ...
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How to Use the New FriendFeed Search for Social Media Intelligence
FriendFeed, a cross-network activity aggregator built by ex-Googlers and more fun to use than the phrase "cross-network activity aggregator" might imply, launched a powerful new search tool today. Want to discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online ...
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FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Visitors; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months
While 2008 was Twitter’s hockey-stick year, Twitter’s little brother FriendFeed is also beginning to show hockey-stick tendencies in its growth. According to comScore, FriendFeed attracted 950,000 unique visitors worldwide in December. That’s a tenfold increase since June, when comScore counted only 93,000 unique visitors worldwide (and nearly double ...
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FriendFeed on iPhone: Comparing the Options
FriendFeed is becoming an integral part of my Web activity. There’s a wealth of information available, the opportunity to really dissect viewpoints in threaded conversations is crucial, and of course some of the daily memes can be just plain fun. FriendFeed, however, is a little bit harder to interface ...
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Top FriendFeed Tips for Twitter Users
Can content aggregator FriendFeed turn Twitterholics into FriendFeed addicts? Certainly, much of the content being imported into FriendFeed comes from Twitter feeds, and there’s a huge amount of overlap between the two user bases. And yet, if you’re like a lot of my Twitter friends, you’re not sold on ...
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FriendDeck: A FriendFeed Search Tool
FriendDeck is a new web-based interface designed for performing searches across the social web aggregation service, FriendFeed. Having obviously taken inspiration from the popular Twitter desktop application, TweetDeck, FriendDeck displays information in columns that spread across your screen, allowing you to track multiple search terms within the same window. As ...
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Native iPhone App for FriendFeed: WebFeedr
Friendfeed already has its own optimized interface for iPhone and iPod Touch, but so far hasn’t released its own native application. A third-party developer has beaten them to the punch, launching Webfeedr, available for 99c in the app store. Webfeedr is just about everything you’d expect from a native ...
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FriendFeed Goes International, Adds Support for 6 New Languages
FriendFeed has launched six new interface languages today: German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian and simplified Chinese. FriendFeed has a large international audience; according to them, nearly one third of their users already use the service in languages other than English. The six languages chosen are the most popular among ...
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HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed
Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. FriendFeed is a social media feed aggregator that makes it easy to follow many different individuals’ various social activities on the Web all in one convenient ...
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FriendFeed Now Has Cute Little Maps
VentureBeat has discovered that FriendFeed has quietly rolled out a new feature: support for geotagging and geoRSS. This means that whenever you update a service that contains location information, FriendFeed will display a map with your location together with the update. Same goes for any geoRSS feed, which is ...
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No Download Required: Get FriendFeed Updates Over IM
FriendFeed, which seemingly rolls out a new feature every day, has just launched the option to get updates via instant message. Similar to the recently added feature that will stream your FriendFeed activity to Twitter, the aggregator offers a built-in set of filters so you can control how much ...
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FriendFeed Nails IM Integration, May See Huge Increase in Use
Popular online activity-monitoring service FriendFeed just announced IM integration and the way they implemented it is really smart. I'm now getting an IM every time someone comments on one of my items in FriendFeed, and I can reply with a comment on that very same item from inside my ...
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FriendFeed offers 'push' service to Twitter users
Social aggregator FriendFeed has just rolled out a new option for its users to post some or all of their FriendFeed activity over to Twitter. Earlier on in the start-up's life the functionality was introduced to send replies (via FriendFeed) to other people's Twitter messages. This worked as ...
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FriendFeed Opens the Floodgates with Real-Time Updates
Using FriendFeed to track all of your friends' activities has become a daily routine for many of us. But, apparently, pressing the refresh button to get the latest and greatest information has been a bit arduous for some. Can't FriendFeed find a way to save their information-addled users by providing ...
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FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection
In its early days, FriendFeed was known for releasing new features on an almost daily basis. That breakneck speed has slowed now that the lifestreaming and aggregation service has come out of private beta, but sometimes FriendFeed still surprises us with new features and user interface changes. Just a few ...
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Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed
Over the last few months, a plethora of tools — addons, scripts, Web apps — have emerged using the FriendFeed API. Here is a list of the top 10 Web applications that you can check out to get the most out of the service. Which do you use? Tell ...
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Socialmedian Introduces News Streaming: Like FriendFeed Without the Noise
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we've talked about how the hot new trend of lifestreaming has been taking off lately. Now the social news service Socialmedian aims to capitalize on that trend by releasing an upgrade to their service that features something they're calling "news streaming." Like lifestreaming, news streaming lets users ...
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Get Buzzed on FriendFeed With FFHolic
Have you been wondering how many rooms on FriendFeed are private? Do you know how many active and public users there are? Are you curious as to whether people “comment” or “like” more? Do you even care? For those people who have fallen head over heels for FriendFeed and have ...
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Nail an API, Get a Sweet Job: FriendFeed Hire/Acquires FFToGo, RSSMeme
There are a lot of great reasons for a company online to offer an Application Programming Interface (API) for outside developers to build on, but one we're starting to see more of is an API as the ultimate recruitment tool. Red hot lifestreaming service FriendFeed announced this afternoon that the ...
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FriendFeed Adds Widgets; Its Path to Mainstream?
Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has launched a variety of widgets (available here ) for showing off your activities on your own blog or website. The two most significant widgets are the Badge, which shows off all of the different services you’ve synced with the site, and the Feed Widget, which ...
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Speed Up RSS? FriendFeed's Going to Try
RSS is the backbone for most things Web 2.0 but these days, it's not always fast enough. Politeness limits ping times to every 15 minutes at best in most cases, string a couple of applications together and information will sometimes not arrive where you're waiting for it for up ...
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FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets
FriendFeed, the social activity aggregator, has released a set of customizable widgets that will allow bloggers to make sure their readers can follow all of their activities across the web. While the site has provided some widgets in the past, this set includes some new widgets to facilitate story ...
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How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration
I was squinting at Friendfeed today, and I realized that it could really work nicely as a business collaboration tool in a few different ways. Between all the various aggregation points, and the “rooms” function, I think the platform has everyone one would need to cook up a collaboration environment. ...
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FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever or Starting to Fade? (POLL)
No matter how you feel about FriendFeed, you can't argue with the fact that it has been one of most popular services among the early adopter set this year. For social media enthusiasts, the site fulfills a need to be always sharing, always active, always involved. In some cases, this ...
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Twitter and Pownce Implement Following Limits
Account limiting is apparently the new big thing to do in the world of Status Microblogging. Both Twitter and Pownce seem to have introduced limits to the number of people you can follow, and neither change seems to have come with much fan fare, by what I can tell. My ...
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Mashable Rocks: Connect with us on FriendFeed
In this week’s Mashable Rocks series, we feature FriendFeed, a lifestreaming application we’ve covered many times. Mashable is also pleased to introduce integration of FriendFeed in our blog posts, meaning that you can now leave comments on FriendFeed and have them show up on Mashable beneath the corresponding story. ...
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Will FriendFeed Forever Be a Niche Service?
Just to get this out of the way right from the start – I am a big fan of FriendFeed. It is one of the primary tools I use every day as a blogger. It is a tool that I would sorely miss if it ever went away for whatever ...
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10 Reasons Why FriendFeed Will Beat Out the Competition
This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. FriendFeed has come a long way in a short amount of time. In the beginning, it was just a fancy RSS aggregator with commenting thrown into the mix. However, over time, FriendFeed has added ...
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ReadWriteWeb Integrates FriendFeed Into Our Comments
2008 has seen a big change in the way the blogging community communicates with each other. In a nutshell, discussions have become very fragmented. There are two main reasons for this: firstly Twitter and its 140 character soundbites has become very popular among bloggers, and secondly FriendFeed has tipped as ...
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Source of FriendFeed Spam Revealed - Write APIs Can Be Trouble
An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday's FriendFeed spam has been revealed. If you've been using the social aggregator FriendFeed, then you may have noticed some odd-looking discussions yesterday where the same comment was repeated over and over by numerous different users. The ...
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FriendFeed Finally Gets iPhone-Friendly
FriendFeed, the popular social network feed aggregator, has released a new version of its site that has been optimized for the iPhone. While FriendFeed has always featured a relatively spartan design, the standard version sports small fonts that make text difficult to read on the iPhone’s screen. The ...
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FriendFeed
Enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers an aggregated way to discover and discuss information among friends. Link: FriendFeed
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FriendFeed Raises $5 Million, Now Open to Everyone
You can tell FriendFeed was built by ex-Googlers because it is so spare, yet brings forth an avalanche of information. The social feed aggregator lets you keep track of your friends across 28 Websites and services, including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, YouTube, blog posts, shared items on Google ...
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