louisgray.com: What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Mar 09
  

  Aviva Gabriel

  Do we need a 'FriendFeed Lite?" This blogger thinks so.

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• 04 Jan 09
  

  Thorsten Matzner

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  Michael Becker

  Louis Gray thinks that Friendfeed is not doing enough to welcome new users and makes some suggestions as to how the site might keep itself relevant.

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  • Why? Because as great as I believe the service is, the learning curve is sharp. People aren't getting its utility right away. They aren't finding friends right away, or understanding why they should spend time to participate. Others are intimidated by the sheer volume of updates coming from people seemingly embedded in the Web, be they Robert, myself or many others.
  • What needs to happen is that FriendFeed must tier their offering, for "small", "medium" and "large" consumption.
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  • • FriendFeed already supports more than 50 different services, but the excitement this may bring to power users is just overwhelming to new folks.
    • Simply put, people aren't getting it. I understand the team's Google-born mentality of "build it and they will come", and the hope that if the user experience is so good, people will gravitate to it over time, or that word of mouth will be all the marketing they ever need, but usage growth has stagnated compared to other faster-growing services, like Facebook and Twitter.
    • here's a reason I keep getting asked by people for help on getting up to speed on FriendFeed. I get it because I've been embedded for more than a year, and it really shouldn't take so much work.
• 03 Jan 09
  

  Mike Fruchter

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