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Friendfeed: Wow, that didn’t take long

Fred Oliveira on March 18, 2008

Coincidences are fun, and this one is pretty cool. So yesterday I posted about Friendfeed needing two things to make it complete. Well strike one out of the list, because search has been done as Techcrunch, Mashable and the guys at Friendfeed themselves are reporting. I know when to say a product is lacking, and I know when to praise - this is time for the latter, for this simple modification, my friends, just made Friendfeed worth my time and account.

Now I can actually see what my friends are saying (or creating) about design, userexperience or development - these are just examples, obviously. And I can do site-specific searches (something I also asked for) which is down right amazing. And (I just tried), I can get RSS feeds for these searches. Friendfeed people, you got me. I’m a full-on user from this moment on. You win - actually, I do, because my information overload is soon to be gone.

Note: I’m re-reading my post and it sounds like sales. Trust me when I say it’s not - I’m just pretty happy about this. Maybe as happy as I was when I joined Twitter back in 05, or maybe when I joined GMail. Wow moments are hard to get, allow me to ride me for a few minutes.


Comments on this post

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Bret Taylor

Glad you like it! We read your post when you wrote it, and I had to bite my tongue not to say anything about the upcoming feature then. We really appreciate the feedback (and of course appreciate the praise as well!).

Fred Oliveira

Bret: funny thing about it is that I actually looked around to ways of contacting you yesterday to give you a heads up on my post so you could check out the suggestions. Doesn’t matter now because the changes I wanted are here - this is fabulous. Cheers!

John

I’m usually one to jump on something new, and I did with FriendFeed, but I honestly can’t seem to find a use for it. If anything, it makes information overload even worse. Pretty much everything I want to follow I can follow with RSS in bloglines with good organization. FriendFeed does the same, everything is piled into one dump with very little organization.

Sally Wu

Please keep posting about more stuff friendfeed needs to do.. maybe they will keep doing what you tell them ;-P

Also, check out my latest blog post on friendfeed @ http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/i-just-started-my-friendfeed/

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