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at there is that FriendFeed has the *potential* to compete with Twitter via
it's "share" functionality. FriendFeed in many ways is trying to become the
Google of the Social world, which I don't believe involves just search.
They breach competition in multiple areas and have the potential to continue
doing that and entering in more and more on services like Twitter's
territory, where they will eventually no longer be able to compete in the
future. I think if FriendFeed were to simply implement SMS for just the
"share" functionality, there would be no need to use Twitter any more as I
could then consolidate my status updates into one service instead of many.
FriendFeed if there was a SMS feature, but another big feature of
Twitter is the @reply function that allow for conversation (anyone on
Twitter, whether you follow them or not, can start a conversation simply
by directing a message at you). And at its current state, FriendFeed
doesn't really support that, and I don't really think its going to for
awhile untill it finishes everything it wants to accomplish in the
sharing field
capabilities in FriendFeed. You can't send direct or public messages to any
individuals, at least not very easily. There are still features that
FriendFeed lacks, I agree.
(and who knows - maybe they won't!). SMS has been one of my issues too, and
IMO that's one of the reasons Twitter is still around. Thus far, maybe only
Jaiku is the only service that supports SMS for messaging in competition
with Twitter.
The reason? Twitter wasn't built for replies. In the beginning, Twitter assumed the "what are you doing?" model of one way conversations, and as the users started to send two-way messages, replies were added at a high level. However, the underlying architecture doesn't support threading, so you have all of these messages floating around which are difficult to link up under certain conditions.
(Of course, this assumes that replies are even working at any one time. Lately, replies have been turned off at times to mitigate load issues.)
If, for whatever reason, FriendFeed chose to support public or private messaging between users, and supported linking between these messages and their replies, then one of Twitter's main advantages would disappear. Right now it doesn't make business sense for FriendFeed to support this, but it enough customers demand it, FriendFeed will do it whether it wants to or not. That could harm Twitter, Jaiku, and the others.
point to a user, allow that user to see your post, and show that user
that you are talking about them along with acctually replying to the
post. Although I do agree with your point that today when I got replies
back, I couldn't figure out who sent a reply to what, which creates a
confusing atmosphere. Threaded replies I think would definatly make the
conversation easier, but then it would require reworking the Tweeting
system in a way that would allow for it
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Of all of the applications that you named, the one that I use most often is Benjamin Golub's fftogo, which is absolutely wonderful.
have the opportunity!
comment there, comment via friendfeed - I do really like comments on
FriendFeed because IMO at it's current stage it's more social and viral.
However, Disqus isn't so bad either and soon will integrate right with
FriendFeed, so I hear. I'm toying with both for now and we'll see which one
makes more sense in the long run.
if you have a slow connection - you may be able to get it up faster
that way, although you won't get all the functionality of FriendFeed.
Let me know how your efforts to get them to join FriendFeed goes.
I created a room for all the Simon's Town issues (pulling in news feeds, related twitter account feeds, blogs, etc). It's clear from this post that we don't need to use twitter anymore.
All I have to do is get the community to register with Friend Feed and and get them to join the room.
They then need to download http://www.twhirl.com and add their remote key https://friendfeed.com/account/api .
When they have Twhirl open on their desktops they can go and click on the # to select the room. Here they can comment and read all the related news.
The question:
How do I add their Simon's Town related news and questions to the Simon's Town room? This is what I did for one user: I added the rss feed of the user to the room. But this implied that I knew the user. What if a Simon's Town community member join without notifying me? I suppose the best is to define searches to identify related news and then invite them to join the room.
BTW: There is one reason why I would suggest people with critical info to share use Twitter; they can sms their news wherever they are. (I cannot see a way to do this easily for people who never venture further than email).
The next step is to train 10-20 to get the CCC ball rolling. Thanks
Johan
everything is worked out.