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faboo mama: My self-serving thoughts on Facebook acquiring FriendFeed

  • John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) · 4 months ago
    Anika, the reason that this happened is because one million users, even passionate and intelligent ones, are just too few today. AOL still has tens of millions of users and is considered a failure. FriendFeed has one million active users, which means that most general business analysts will have to explain to people what Facebook just bought.
  • Anika Malone · 4 months ago
    I don't care *why* it was done. All I want is to know *right now* what happens to my content. That's it. I think something like this, we should be told what happens with our comments and native FF posts, the discussions that have occurred within those posts, etc. so that we can back up or find someway to kill the blog entries that were created using FriendFeed's 'share' function if that information is to disappear.
  • John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) · 4 months ago
    I think the *why* helps to explain what will happen next, and unfortunately, our existing FriendFeed content doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Facebook didn't pay $50 million to make FriendFeed better; they paid $50 million to make Facebook better. Sadly, Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about your wonderful content that you've posted to FriendFeed (or the junk that I've posted), and since Zuckerberg''s paying the salaries of Bret et al, they won't care either.

    I've elaborated on my thoughts in my post FaceFeed - Facebook acquired FriendFeed, FriendFeed is a failure, and garage dreamers should wake up.
  • sean808080 · 4 months ago
    The sad fact is that no one has a long term plan. To this fact, add the youth and inexperience of some 'leaders' in addition to nature of technology and we see the result. A chaotic, unpredictable space where things that work well get subsumed while things that don't succeed... in spite of themselves.

    I need a cocktail.
  • Aaron @ Acai Fruit Juice · 3 months ago
    Many people who don't know too much about technology these days appreciate "straight forward" applications. I think the Facebook users will enjoy FriendFeed not to say that they aren't "in tune" with today's latest technology, but because it gives them yet another avenue to communicate with people. I personally don't use much of FB but can appreciate new and simple applications. Who knows, I may start using FB a little more!