Comments on: FriendFeed Waxes as Twitter Wanes For Me http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2008/06/13/friendfeed-waxes-as-twitter-wanes-for-me/ A journal of geekery, music and joy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ken Kennedy http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2008/06/13/friendfeed-waxes-as-twitter-wanes-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-58322 Ken Kennedy Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:49:26 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2008/06/13/friendfeed-waxes-as-twitter-wanes-for-me/#comment-58322 Agreed, Dave. You hit upon it earlier with the fact that we were all just kind of living with something originally shoehorned into SMS. 140 character haiku, yada yada...whatever. It was first pass, a neat demo; time to move on. As always, picking up your friends and connections to move causes a lot of the pain, but the fact that FriendFeed is in one sense an aggregator of other stuff (like Twitter) helps with that quite a bit. You can incrementally move over with somewhat less difficulty. I just set up Twhirl for FriendFeed as well; nice! I see this picking up steam for me pretty fast. However, I also struggle with the centralization these sorts of services do; the way in which they pull the conversation away from the "primary source". I saw the notification for this post in FriendFeed, for example, but I deliberately chose to respond here. I think both styles can work, but I don't want to lose commenting directly at blogs b/c we're all interacting in meta-meta-meta services. I guess it's just a balance to be aware of. Agreed, Dave. You hit upon it earlier with the fact that we were all just kind of living with something originally shoehorned into SMS. 140 character haiku, yada yada…whatever. It was first pass, a neat demo; time to move on. As always, picking up your friends and connections to move causes a lot of the pain, but the fact that FriendFeed is in one sense an aggregator of other stuff (like Twitter) helps with that quite a bit. You can incrementally move over with somewhat less difficulty.

I just set up Twhirl for FriendFeed as well; nice! I see this picking up steam for me pretty fast.

However, I also struggle with the centralization these sorts of services do; the way in which they pull the conversation away from the “primary source”. I saw the notification for this post in FriendFeed, for example, but I deliberately chose to respond here. I think both styles can work, but I don’t want to lose commenting directly at blogs b/c we’re all interacting in meta-meta-meta services. I guess it’s just a balance to be aware of.

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