International Law

FriendFeed ... the next big thing

Although FriendFeed is the latest hot startup, I can't help but agree with Duncan Riley's commentary:

If you haven?t been keeping up with the noise, FriendFeed is the hot startup of the minute. The service launched to the public February 25 and announced $5 million in funding at the same time.

The concept of FriendFeed is simple enough. You add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services, and Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you?re doing. The interface is clean, not surprising given the company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy.

I asked for some feedback on FriendFeed via Twitter and Michael responded saying that Friendfeed was this years Twitter, complete with SXSW inflection point. Others, such as Steve Rubel and Louis Gray are talking about the service like it was the most amazing thing they?ve seen in years.

I signed up to FriendFeed yesterday to see what the fuss is about. Having used it for a day I don?t get why FriendFeed is that much better than the range of other services that do exactly the same thing. Plaxo Pulse immediately comes to mind, and there?s Spokeo, Second Brain, Social Thing and Iminta as well. Certainly FriendFeed wins (by a small margin) on usability and scope, but it?s still yet another service in a sea of similar startups.

Read more here (from TechCrunch).

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).