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Why Silicon Valley just won't shut up about FriendFeed

"Cathy Brooks is a typically unapologetic Silicon Valley Web addict," writes Brad Stone in the New York Times. "Last week alone, she produced more than 40 pithy updates on the text messaging service Twitter, uploaded two dozen videos to various video sharing sites, posted seven photographs on the Yahoo image service Flickr and one item to the online community calendar Upcoming." Usually, when one identifies a friend as an addict, an intervention is in order. But Stone, who seems to have spent so much time in San Francisco's tech circles that he's gone native, suggests more technology instead: Specifically, FriendFeed, which gathers all of this online activity in one place, making it marginally easier for Brooks's benighted friends to keep up with her online logorrhea. More »

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9:20 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,451 views, 11 comments

Latest by Figaro: Friendfeed is for people on ADD/ADHD. Even if you have few friends, the amount of useless data that it gives you is enormous! Stay clear of that tool! It's just an RSS reader with a "social" feel to it. more »

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Social media begins to fold in on self, space-time collapse imminent

Lovably cranky early adopter Eric Rice points out that the reverb in the echo chamber is beginning to cause eye-splitting feedback loops. Normally harmless Twitter posts are automagically crossposted to Jaiku and Tumblr, where all three show up on FriendFeed, polluting your friends' RSS readers. They then curse your name, take screenshots, upload them to Flickr and blog about it. If you're not a member of The 250, you can probably ignore this budding trend safely — at least until it starts happening on Facebook.

11:20 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Jackson West
548 views, 5 comments

Latest by Alaska Miller: @matto: back in my day i had to walk to the post office to let people know what's going in my life. in the snow. up those saratoga hills. both ways. without shoes. more »

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FriendFeed cofounder: Hang in there, there is life after Google

During this interview with Fortune, FriendFeed cofounder Bret Taylor explains why he and three other ex-Googlers happily left Google's organic, locally sourced swaddling for an uncertain future at a startup:
When we make decisions, I get to just look up from my computer and and say 'Hey do you think we should do this?' and if my people say yes, we just do it. I haven't made a single PowerPoint presentation. We just talk to each other. No matter how innovative a culture is at a large company, you can't really reproduce it.

2:40 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
934 views, 2 comments

Latest by Zoo: Does that shmuck in the background have a 40" monitor.. ? and what the hell is FriendFeeders? more »