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Submitted by Michaelfidler

Nov 08, 2008

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Yesterday the FriendFeed team announced integration with instant messaging services that allows users to send updates to FriendFeed right from the IM dialogue and also see and reply to new comments on their posts and be updated when new items are posted by friends. At this stage the FriendFeed IM only works with Google Talk or other Jabber-based IMs but knowing how busy FriendFeed team usually is I’d expect other IM protocols to be added in the near future. Read the full article

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Hutch,

Nov 08, 2008

"I expect that people will start using friends lists on FriendFeed much heavier now that IM integration is introduced as some users will hardly want to get all the updates via IM from all the people they subscribe to (and FriendFeed can easily get way too noisy if you follow more than a hundred of people). I am quite sure the majority of heavy users will choose to only receive IM updates from the people that are actually important enough to be delivered in real time."