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cc — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:41:51 -0000

video no workie

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Roger Xiao — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:10:18 -0000

RIP FriendFeed

Never got to and never will be mainstream.

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Christopher G — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:05:52 -0000

Let FB keep assimilating. They can keep doing so until their site runs as well as Vista - it's getting there already.

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Christopher G — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02:26 -0000

Whatever. Facebook moves me about as much as the Microsoft.com homepage. Facebook *is* the Microsoft of social web - a bloated, domineering, kitchen-sink fail. And FriendFeed is Google - fast, lean, perfect.

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omouse — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:47:02 -0000

Barely anyone uses the comments. Maybe for a few comments and that's it. With FriendFeed there are tons and tons of comments posted, it feels like people are actually having a conversation. On Facebook, that only happens with the Wall and that is still a one-to-one convo.

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Mark — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:05 -0000

Digg had this quite some time ago.

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Jesse Stay — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:31:32 -0000

It's not though because of one thing - it's not open. I can't read my feed or comment on my feed outside of Facebook. On Twitter and FriendFeed I can. Provide me RSS and an API to access this feed and you'll compete with Twitter and Friendfeed, and be a pretty good competitor even.

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Krystalo — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:15:41 -0000

You should read this: http://www.neowin.net/news/...

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baratunde — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:37:55 -0000

hey i can't see the "reply" links on your disqus comments. it's in white font for me. FFox mac. fwiw

this is a very cool feature. agree with commenter below that integrating Group (AND PAGE) activity into the feed is important. in fact it's more important to me that the live option. Items that have no feed presence die. It's that simple. There's no periodic reminder that groups exist, other than getting a mass message from the group owner. Same with Pages. Facebook is leaving a LOT of interaction on the table by failing to integrate these two community assets into the feed structure.

also, they should let me file my email in folders/tags.

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memo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:12:38 -0000

Nick, a few serious questions... and imo, worth legitimate exploration (preferably by you, since you understand both sides of the fence so well)...

How much longer are Fred W. and Paul B. going to play possum while fb slowly but steadily assimilates the very best their respective startups have to offer??
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Re: Facebook Live Feed Kills Twitter & FriendFeed

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:45:06 -0000

It's funny that you say that ... a few minutes after this, news feed items were flying by. Can you really pay attention to a million news stories moving by rapid fire? While it looks cool, it doesn't seem very useful. It's the same problem with following thousands of people on Twitter ... it just doesn't work

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netik — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:39:06 -0000

I guess in a way the video demonstrates why Twitter is still more fun. The update rate is extremely slow and that's not software related; it's simply because people are not as chatty on Facebook as they are on a dedicated service like Twitter.

If an app or API comes out and is regularly used, we might see more use (Adium now supports Facebook chat, for example), but what I get now out of Adium's facebook chat are the same 20-30 status messages over and over again.

Then again, I'm biased. I work there.

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Scott — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:13:39 -0000

I do like the new feature, but I would love to see a feed of new group posts. I rarely click all my groups to keep up on the new posts.

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Joe Dawson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:53:29 -0000

I must admit I am well impressed with how Facebook merged the Wall and Mini-Feed, they took this a step further with the Homepage and the headed feeds. I agree with khylek I would like to have an Adobe AIR application running with the steady stream of updates but that's unlikely to happen unless Facebook realise the potential and make it possible!

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Daryl — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:21:08 -0000

Nice - hadn't noticed this. Thanks for sharing Nick.

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Gabriel — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:21 -0000

The functionallity is fine but its no Twitter killer for the simple reason that Twitter is much better than anything else on mobile phones.

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khylek — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:18:03 -0000

Someone needs to make an AIR app out of this. Then it would be fairly interesting.