Friendfeed is for me…
Scoble just wrote on his blog an article titled “10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not” but it reads more like (for the most part) why Friendfeed is better than Twitter. In fact it’s borderline patronising. The primary difference between Twitter and Friendfeed is that the former is a very focused source of information while with Friendfeed there’s a multitude of ways in which information is gathered and created. Not only are we talking imports like Flickr, RSS, Youtube, Googlereader etc but also posting of messages, comments, links and likes.
I’ve used Twitter only for a week longer than I have Friendfeed but I still find a lot more material on FF than I do on Twitter. Scoble implies in his very first point that Twitter is not for you if you can’t handle an influx of a torrent of data but within the first day of use you realise you get an incredible amount of control over what information you see and what you don’t.
There’s a lot more on Friendfeed than I could possibly say here. Aimed more towards the power users I do agree with Scoble that Friendfeed isn’t for everyone. Whether the lack of ability of mass adoption is a good or bad thing for Friendfeed is yet to be seen.
You can find me on http://friendfeed.com/bhavishya
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Scoble’s post was patronizing, basically saying that if you are unable to deal with complexity I.e your simpleminded friendfeed isn’t for you. After reading your post, however, I may check it out. Cheers!
EBrown I understand Friendfeed can have a bit of a learning curve but no user should make any attempts to master it in a day anyway. Start using it and keep tweaking the settings and exploring it’s other utilities as you go along. A lot less daunting that way.