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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.
Paul Buchheit: Overnight success takes a long time | gmail and friendfeed
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.
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Why FriendFeed will go mainstream (Part II) «
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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So, why is FriendFeed going to go mainstream:
1. The team. Among the seven people who are currently working on FriendFeed is the guy who gave Google it’s “don’t be evil” tag and who wrote Gmail. Another guy on the team did Google Maps. Yet other people on the team did impressive things. This team will be unhappy with themselves if they just get me and Thomas Hawk and Louis Gray to use it. They are building something from the bottom up to be used by millions of people.
louisgray.com: 15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users
Why Tiny FriendFeed Will Be as Big as Google - Advertising Age - Steve Rubel
"I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google" | Steve Rubel
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My latest fascination is FriendFeed, a site that in one place aggregates your friends' streams from across different social sites. Right now FriendFeed's audience is paltry. According to Compete, it has 300,000 active users. Still, I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google.
Others who are vying for the same crown include SocialThing, Facebook and Google itself. -
As an early FriendFeed enthusiast, I find myself increasingly turning to its terrific search engine when I need product and service information. You can give this a try yourself at friendfeed.com/search/advanced.
I am largely over Twitter. I feel weird when I post something there instead of here. I get a ton more discussion here. - FriendFeed
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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“I am largely over Twitter. I feel weird when I post something there instead of here. I get a ton more discussion here.”
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4. Their UI sucks and is brilliant at the same time. In the old post you read how it sucks. In this post look at what’s brilliant about it. First, it’s always fast. You gotta watch this video with Kevin Fox, interaction designer at FriendFeed, to get his philosophy behind building UIs. Think he doesn’t know crap about design? Go read his resume (PDF), he designed Gmail 1.0, Google Calendar 1.0, and Google Reader 2.0.
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Why is FriendFeed seeing this growth? Well, for one, it hasn’t gone down since I’ve joined it. It was built from the start to scale, which after I met the team I understood why: two of the founders of FriendFeed started Gmail and Google Maps, so I’m sure they’ve learned a few tricks about making sure services don’t go down from Google
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