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The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.
"The open, realtime discussions that occur on FriendFeed," he says, "are going to become a major new communication medium on the same level as email, IM and blogging." That's a pretty ambitious claim, but Buchheit has the credibility to make it.
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We starting working on Gmail in August (or September?) 2001. For a long time, almost everyone disliked it. Some people used it anyway because of the search, but they had endless complaints. Quite a few people thought that we should kill the project, or perhaps "reboot" it as an enterprise product with native client software, not this crazy Javascript stuff. Even when we got to the point of launching it on April 1, 2004 (two and a half years after starting work on it), many people inside of Google were predicting doom. The product was too weird, and nobody wants to change email services. I was told that we would never get a million users.
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It’s very flexible. For instance, check out these links:
1. Everyone who has shared an item on Google Reader.
2. Everyone who has shared a song on Last.fm. or on iLike.
3. Everyone who has Tweeted on Twitter (do a test and see how fast yours shows up there).
4. Everyone who has shared a video on YouTube.
5. Everyone who has written a blog post.
6. Everyone who has put, or favorited, a photo on Flickr. On SmugMug. On Picasa.
7. Everyone who has posted something on FriendFeed itself (link or a note).
8. Everyone who has shared an event on Upcoming.
9. Everyone who has bookmarked an item on Del.icio.us.
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"I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google" | Steve Rubel
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Steve continues to push to envelope with good thinking on microblogging, and online conversations. FF is built by ex Google folks who built gmail, so they understand well written applications, and scalability.
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