Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the 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 co-founded.
Here’s what Buchheit just told me, in full:
Jim, there may be a few new things, but as I said, the team is mainly working on fb platform and openness, so it’s unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff (except maybe one that I’ve been thinking about for a while…).
So, whilst reports of Friendfeed’s imminent death seem to be premature, Buchheit’s message suggests that the platform is no longer being actively developed.
This news is of little surprise, coming just weeks after Friendfeed was acquired by Facebook in a multimillion dollar buy-out.
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I mentioned it on your friendfeed share Jim, but I think bringing in revenue could change the direction of resource funneling: http://bit.ly/3Qer81
There’s nothing wrong with tasteful personalized, user optional ads.
Maybe for other platforms, but these guys are now amazingly wealthy after their multimillion dollar sell out to Facebook.
Can’t see it making a difference; unless the mighty Zuck needs a few hundred million more :)
FriendFeed doesn’t have enough users to make advertising bring in more than a few dollars a day. Not going to matter. Not even worth turning on.
Hey Robert. I agree totally.