Friendfeed

Some posts this evening about a twitter boycott scheduled for 5/21 to protest the outages at twitter.  Where I'm all for protests that have some meaning, I really don't understand this one.  As far as I'm concerned a protest makes sense when a company's customers feel that the company is willfully mistreating them.  A perfect example of this is the livejournal protest from last month.  LJ users felt that adding adverting without notifying them was unfair and protested.  Whether the protest was successful or not, is another question, not for this post.

A couple of folks have asked why I am basically reinventing friendfeed and presenting my lifestream  on seanreiser.com.

Last night, Warren Whitlock tweeted

Is FriendFeed going to replace Twitter? Follow me on http://friendfeed.com/warrenwhitlock

That might be a good way to get your current followers to subscribe to your FriendFeed but it got me to thinking about if FF could replace twitter as the prominent messaging social network. My initial reaction, which Warren retweeted was:

@WarrenWhitlock twitter is to friendfeed as baseball is to espn

I've been trying to describe to folks why I like friendfeed, the one stop shopping site for web 2.0 presence aggregation.  Today Terry Paul Walhus tweeted this which linked a message on pownce :

Hey, you're already my twitter friend and I'd like to add you as a friend on pownce. If you'd like to see me and my work, check out http://austincast.com/blo... where I interview Leah Culver, Cali Lewis, Zadi Diaz, Veronica Belmont and more blogerati/digerati at sxsw 2008 I'm springnet on twitter and walhus on skype. I'd like to do a skype interview with you for my blog like the interviews I just mentioned.

OK, Now that I've used friendfeed for a bit I have some more features I'd like to see.  For completeness sake, I'll list the 2 that I had already posted over here as well as several new ones.  Again, don't get me wrong, I think the service is great just would like to see it do some more things and help me drink from this firehose.

I've been playing with FriendFeed the last couple of days after seeing posts from folks like Scoble. I've long discussed the need for the "great Web 2.0 presence aggregator". It's something I've considered writing it, although I've never had the time nor the web design skills (I can do functional, just not pretty). Now that I've played with it it's about 75% of what I envisioned.

The system provides a clean interface for seeing all the activity of your friends in one place. This is more people centric, so a person can have any number of web 2.0 services attached to his account which are presented coherently and logically.

OK, I am bowing to the pressure and checking out friendfeed (the great web2.0 presence aggregator). I'll let you all know in the next few days... in the mean time

http://friendfeed.com/nibbler

Observation 1:
If I'm telling friendfeed about the other social sites I'm on, why can't it dope out who some of my friends are based on reverse lookup?