New friendfeed: Twitter that moves? Facebook filtering before Facebook?

by on April 6, 2009

Techcrunch has it up. Go see the new version. It’s wild.

More details coming shortly.

What I like about it:

Display is quite different, it no longer shows icons of aggregated services but instead looks more like Twitter.

Real-time. It’s all realtime.

You can direct message people who are following you.

There’s greatly improved filtering and searching.

There’s now a profile page.

You can now remove people’s entries from filtered display with Gmail like operators.

They’ve rethought the friendfeed rooms and made them more useful.

There’s a simplified API coming.

You can subscribe to likes and comments separately now as feeds.

I have videos of the friendfeed announcements that are uploading now. They will be up by noon at http://scobleizer.blip.tv

UPDATE: Thomas Hawk has his review up here. The new version will be up on http://beta.friendfeed.com soon (within minutes).

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  • rambn
    I wonder if maybe I shouldn't have deleted my account, but friendfeed just seemed too cliquey
  • You like the new service icon-less design? I miss them. Bring 'em back FriendFeed!
  • Pedro
    Lately 99.9% of your posts have "real-time web" somewhere in them... isn't there anything else of interest happening, besides twitter and friendfeed?
  • Pedro: I've moved a lot of my Internet behaviors over to http://www.friendfeed.com/scobleizer/likes -- see you there. That's what is catching my eye at the moment.
  • > There’s a simplified API coming.

    Of course. I just, _JUST_ finished a little service using their old API.

    I suppose this is just a corollary to the law that any stock will tank immediately after I buy it. Any API will change immediately after I use it.
  • I said this months and months ago, but bears repeating (built upon existing phrase). If Google is the new Microsoft and Facebook is the new Google (i.e. the next next thing), then Friendfeed is the new Facebook (we'll forget about Twitter for the moment). As I said then as well, Bret Taylor, Paul B. and co are geniuses.
  • I personally want the service icons back. Makes it easier to see what is what.
  • I preferred the icons from the aggregated services, even if they were relegated to a tiny spot at the end of the post.
  • Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life. Check me out!!

    http://twitter.com/spryka
  • I love twitter, I have great friends there. I network with other people having the same interest; we exchange ideas and opportunities and learn a lot from this community.
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