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Blame FriendFeed

Source: TechCrunch

May 25, 2008

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Robert Scoble. Blame FriendFeed. Steve Rubel. Blame FriendFeed. The Shel puppet. Blame FriendFeed. Dave Winer. Blame FriendFeed. Etc.

FriendFeed is a parasite service built on the back of Twitter. Let’s get this straight. No Twitter, no FriendFeed. Want to kill FriendFeed, as I certainly do? Cut off its oxygen. Take a page from Facebook’s incompetent UnFriend Connect gambit and refuse to pass Twitter posts through non-compliant ex-Google engineering scams.

OK, I’m way off my meds since the company has finally admitted on the Twitter Excuse page that they’ve figured out what the culprit is in the continual service meltdown. It’s the Track command, which as a result of my no-@-sign campaign to evangelize the Twitter XMPP Gtalk gateway, has now reached enough adopters to qualify as an actual threat to Twitter’s massive server farm or whatever access to Fred Wilson’s credit card and an EC2 account buys.

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Comments (5)

Jacobburke

May 25, 2008

I think that Gillmor is not always with it. FriendFeed is a Lifestream aggregator that allows users to comment on what is being pulled into the feed. It can most certainly exist without Twitter, and even allows to messages to be written directly to the feed. So I don't know what Gillmor is on at this point, I can't even tell if he is in favor of the service or not. He needs to spend the rest of his days in the institution if you ask me. Harsh, maybe - but don't knock it until you try it Steve.

Ophelia

May 25, 2008

Percentage of my time: Twitter 80% Friendfeed 5% Facebook .01% Plaxo .001% and the rest ot the time I actually work. When Twitter is down, I just go back to work and turn up the music. Lately it's more music than tweets. My tweets are sucked into plaxo, friendfeed, and my blog. Offered but not streamed into are FB, secondbraind and socialmedian.It's now true that you can be everywhere at the same time (give or take 10 minutes). I have been thinking when does knowing every thought that comes out our heads then turns back on us? Its a lower form of mind reading, so when does the noise get too much? Besides the social networking aspect (of which I love), the amount of just noise can get deafening.