Conversation Agent: FriendFeed: the Friends of Friends - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Dec 08
  

  Maria Reyes-McDavis

  One of the aspects I love most about being online is the spirit of community that comes across in conversations - even as we talk with perfect strangers. There are plenty of strangers in my FriendFeed - mostly friends of either Robert Scoble or Mariela de Marchi (on the other side of the pond). Both Scoble and de Marchi are curious and interested and so are their friends. And that is good for me.I am contradicting a point I listed a long time ago, one that got Stephen Baker's attention at Business Week. Sales as pull-only has its allure, but as Baker pointed out, loosening our reins to receiving more than we ask for does expand our network of friends and knowledge. This is why I am starting to enjoy the opportunities of FriendFeed. The concept of FriendFeed is quite simple. You add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services, and Friendfeed aggregates them so your friends can follow what you’re doing. The interface is clean, and using it is easy. The new design allows you to separate your various subscriptions into groups. The new feature launched in mid September with a most requested addition - detection of duplicates, or related stories.If conversations are fragmented, then a smarter aggregator, one that shows what people (and their friends) are working on in a threaded format, can help you keep track better. If you were to be looking to track certain conversations or detect patterns and pockets of interest, this is...

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  Marcel Weiss

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  • It's full of surprises. A friend of a friend may post something quite interesting that I would never in a million years have thought of looking for and there is more than one dimension that is beyond broadcasting. For some reason it reminds me of conversations you strike when on a train in Italy or as you wait in line at a store - casual can mean interesting. If a thread strikes a chord, it will keep bubbling up in the stream, intact for you to catch up on hours later.
    

    FriendFeed seems to be mostly about discovering and discussing content. I have seen some of my posts shared on Google Reader and "liked" - feedback I would have not otherwise had. Likewise, I have found it easier to share links to favorites with my comments from a variety of feeds.

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