Comments on: Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit talking in riddles over future plans

By: Rebooting the News #29 « Rebooting The News

Rebooting the News #29 « Rebooting The News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:54:31 +0000

[...] depopulation of FriendFeed after its purchase by [...]

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:44 +0000

Never give up, never surrender (oh sweet Galaxy Quest).

The awesomeness in friendfeed wasn’t just the tech for me Jim, which was fantastic. It was meeting folks like yourself. Let’s keep in touch no matter what social networks we chat on. Our blogs will live on, we can connect them with more federated/distributed networks.

I’ve commented about what friendfeed could do to raise revenue on your follow on post, as that could create new developers passionate about it’s successful evolution. Simple opt in ads, contextually matched to what users chat about, it’s a no brainer.

By: Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:49:08 +0000

[...] next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last. This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he [...]

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:17:45 +0000

Th answer was a mixture of a riddle and bad poetry.

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:17:11 +0000

Hi Robert. Whilst I obviously wish Paul a speedy recovery, the silence from the co-founders has been deafening. I’m pretty-much certain that if they were not simply letting Friendfeed gather dust, someone would have said before now.

I await your video with fingers crossed. Sadly, I’m not sure I will know it’s been released; as I used to get all that info from (ironically) Friendfeed!

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:40:20 +0000

Paul emailed me back and said he’s been very sick this week, which might explain some of his answers (or lack thereof). We are going to do an interview soon on the future of FriendFeed where I’m sure we’ll talk more explicitly about the future.

By: Justin Parks

Justin Parks — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:16 +0000

Such a pity, Friend Feed was very attractive in its current incarnation and was pulling at me to indulge in it a lot more until the uncertainty arose over its future after the Facebook buyout.

The reply you quoted is also less than satisfactory.

I guess the only thing left is a name change to FriendFED…

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:08:03 +0000

Your point about them not giving a clear reassurance is a good one.

It would have taken seconds for them to point-blank say that they were 100% committed to the development of Friendfeed.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:38:37 +0000

WAKE UP GUYS!

This is the end of friendfeed. Period! There’s no other reason for them to let the place fall apart, without giving a concrete assurance that they developing it.

How hard’s it for them to say that they are moving forward with freindfeed and stop the exodus? They cant say it coz it’s a lie. Thats why the guys talking like a politician. Thats not pr talk, it’s political talk to dodge giving an answer.

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:17:31 +0000

Ronnie, it’s certainly not dead. I have no doubt that the servers will be left running for a very long time yet. The challenge, is will Facebook allow the guys to continue developing for Friendfeed? Is it a growing platform or a shrinking one?

Anyone?