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FriendFeed: aggregation vs. fragmentation

Started by mathewi · 5 months ago

I hesitate to jump back into the whole FriendFeed debate, given the unpleasantness on the weekend involving Duncan Riley and Louis Gray, but FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit wrote something about the purpose of the social aggregation service that I thought was worth commenting on. I think he ... Continue reading »

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  • Corvida

    5 months ago

    At the same time, half of the sites that FriendFeed aggregates are sites that are open to the public to some extent (ie Twitter). These items are still available for discussion on all the services that FF aggregates.
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  • mathewi

    5 months ago

    That's a good point, Corvida -- although I think the criticism some
    have is that those comments and the ones on FriendFeed are separate
    from each other, where it might be better to unite them.


    On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Disqus
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  • dirk Petersen

    5 months ago

    as a reader, i don't have access to these guys. i wish you had actually interviewed the people at friendfeed rather than reprint what these blowhards have to say. i can't speak for other readers but i prfer gettingthe straight scoop, not the derivative stuff. they're just being lazy, talking about people talking about other people talking. ad infinitum
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  • Corvida

    5 months ago

    Well in that case I definitely can and have complained about the fragmentation too!

    http://corvida.ilumine.net/social-aggregators-g...
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  • mathewi

    5 months ago

    Thanks, Corvida -- meant to mention your post.
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  • felix

    5 months ago

    I think he has an interesting point - but for most sites the problem isn't a discussion involving millions. If you have a huge site and an abundance of conversation well then perhaps fragmentation is good or at least not bad. On the other hand if you are like most sites and struggle to get a converstation started the analogy would be, wouldn't you rather have conversation be you in a forum with a few people wandering in or you talking to one guy and another guy off in some cul de sac talking to himself unless you remember to head over there. Conversation begets conversation, so in a low talk situation, you want to make sure that as much of it is in one place as possible. At least how I see it. :)
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  • mathewi

    5 months ago

    That's a good point, Felix.

    On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Disqus
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