Category Archives: FriendFeed

How to Replace Twitter With Facebook

Posted on February 12, 2011 by jessestay

I just wrote about how Twitter is becoming much less necessary for me.  In this post, I’d like to show you how, with just a few steps, you can get exactly what you’re getting on Twitter and more with just … Continue reading →

Posted in Bret Taylor, Facebook, facebook page, facebook search, FriendFeed, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, robert scoble, social, Technology, Twitter | 7 Comments

Facebook Quietly Launching Friendfeed-like Live Commenting

Posted on January 21, 2011 by jessestay

Tonight, in a moment of rare form, as I was singing Hakuna Matata on Facebook with Krystyl Baldwin and others (an occasion one must do often) I noticed a new feature pop up before my eyes.  Instantly, with no refresh … Continue reading →

Posted in Benjamin Golub, Bret Taylor, Facebook, Facebook features, FriendFeed, Hakuna Matata, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social network, Technology | 11 Comments

With Facebook Messages, Has Facebook Reached FriendFeed Nirvana?

Posted on November 17, 2010 by jessestay

There’s no doubt of the FriendFeed team’s influence on Facebook after they were acquired a year ago.  Bret Taylor, CEO of FriendFeed is now the CTO of Facebook after all.  Even before the acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook was taking cues … Continue reading →

Posted in Bret Taylor, Facebook, FriendFeed, friendfeed facebook integration, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, paul buchheit, Technology, Y Combinator | 4 Comments

Loud Noises Be Gone! Mute Posts by Source in Google Buzz

Posted on September 13, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve long said that in good social networks, it’s not how you give, but how you receive that makes the social network powerful.  This is why I like Facebook – I can hide the types of applications I don’t ever … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, Facebook, filter noise, FriendFeed, Google, google buzz, google reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, noise, Rick Klau, Technology | Leave a comment

The Butterflies are "All Around Us" – My Interview With Paul Buchheit, CoFounder of FriendFeed

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jessestay

I had the opportunity to spend a brief few minutes with Paul Buchheit, co-creator of FriendFeed.com, which was recently acquired by Facebook end of last year.  In our interview, I asked Paul where “the Butterfly” was that was mentioned by … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, Facebook, FriendFeed, friendfeed death, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, new features, open graph api, paul buchheit, Technology | 3 Comments

Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8

Posted on February 22, 2010 by jessestay

I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part.  The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, butterfly effect, buzz, chrysalis, f8, Facebook, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, paul buchheit, real-time, Technology | 6 Comments

Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control

Posted on February 20, 2010 by jessestay

Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, control, Facebook, filtering, FriendFeed, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lists, monkey, Technology, trapped | 6 Comments

FriendFeed Turns on the Twitter Firehose (Again)

Posted on December 23, 2009 by jessestay

It seems that some time today, the FriendFeed team has just re-enabled their live Twitter stream (using Twitter’s “Birddog” API) for real-time updates from Twitter.  I noticed the update when posting a cool bookmarklet by Kynetx, and re-tested it again … Continue reading →

Posted in firehose, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, paul buchheit, real-time, social, Technology, Twitter | 7 Comments

Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider

Posted on December 17, 2009 by jessestay

About a month ago, Facebook’s David Recordon announced that Facebook was hard at work with the Open Standards Communities on a new OAuth protocol called Wrap.  The goals of the protocol seem to specifically provide a way to direct a … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, FriendFeed, friendfeed dead, Geeky, oauth, Technology, wrap | 11 Comments

FriendFeed Launches Status Update Sync to Auto-update Facebook

Posted on December 17, 2009 by jessestay

Despite all the “FriendFeed is dead” arguments the naysayers have been pushing, a new, pretty significant update was pushed by the FriendFeed team today into production.  The update belongs to FriendFeed’s App on Facebook, and now imports every update users … Continue reading →

Posted in dead, Facebook, facebook app, FriendFeed, friendfeed dead, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, status, sync, Technology | 12 Comments