I gave up on FriendFeed a long time ago because of the interface. I would expect that you will receive a tremendous amount of grief for daring to say what had to be said. The FriendFiends are quite vociferous.
nrek
· 8 months ago
FriendFeed is pretty difficult to navigate and filter. There are Lists and Rooms for seperating content, but all in all, it is way too easy to get too much info, and that kind of UI flubbing will keep FriendFeed from going mainstream. Facebook's new interface is way too darn busy, but the news feed section and left panel on the home page was a great move.
The likeness Facebook's new features has to Twitter and FriendFeed alike shows that they are apying attention at least, now if they can just unclutter the mess they have on the right of the homepage/news feed... all the better.
wizardelite
· 8 months ago
Looking back, I remember a time when FriendFeed first arrived to the scene. Twitter was having major stability issues and everybody from people like Robert Scoble was claiming that Twitter is dead and that Friendfeed was the new player in town.
Moving to present day we see that Twitter and Facebook are more popular than ever and Friendfeed remains in the realm of the early adopters and high level bloggers/social media purists. Why? Because Friendfeed is to hard to use while the others are simple and intuitive to use.
I hope I get heat for my critiques for what I have to say about Friendfeed. Then maybe we can see these companies actually create a decent product. Guess we have to wait till Monday to see.
jangeronimo
· 8 months ago
I find your observations about the readability of friendfeed comments true. The interface in Facebook is much easier to navigate. What do use friendfeed for? It's aggregating my activities in all the social media I've subscribed to. But that's just about it. At least for now.
wizardelite
· 8 months ago
Not only do I use FriendFeed to aggregate my content but I wanted to use it as a way to find interesting and relevant content from other users that share my same interests. Yet with the poor implementation of the user interface, it is an impossible task to accomplish.
Great ideas are a dime a dozen these days. What's vital is execution and if you can't successfully execute your idea it will never truly get off the ground.
I find it intriguing that shortly after this post Robert Scoble announced that FriendFeed is supposed to release a new user interface this coming Monday. I can only hope that FriendFeed realizes the key issues with their site and they make the appropriate corrections.
Expect a follow up post once I've had a chance to try out Friendfeed's redesign.
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The likeness Facebook's new features has to Twitter and FriendFeed alike shows that they are apying attention at least, now if they can just unclutter the mess they have on the right of the homepage/news feed... all the better.
Moving to present day we see that Twitter and Facebook are more popular than ever and Friendfeed remains in the realm of the early adopters and high level bloggers/social media purists. Why? Because Friendfeed is to hard to use while the others are simple and intuitive to use.
I hope I get heat for my critiques for what I have to say about Friendfeed. Then maybe we can see these companies actually create a decent product. Guess we have to wait till Monday to see.
Great ideas are a dime a dozen these days. What's vital is execution and if you can't successfully execute your idea it will never truly get off the ground.
I find it intriguing that shortly after this post Robert Scoble announced that FriendFeed is supposed to release a new user interface this coming Monday. I can only hope that FriendFeed realizes the key issues with their site and they make the appropriate corrections.
Expect a follow up post once I've had a chance to try out Friendfeed's redesign.