DISQUS

SEO and Tech Daily: Friendfeed is leveling the playing field

  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    I think the playing field can be considered level when, on occasion, prominent and reasonably well-known bloggers are subscribing to li'l old me on friendfeed. Me, with my blog readership still barely in double digits.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    Slippylane, I actually quoted you in a post just yesterday. But I had no idea where your blog was (is it in FF?) to link you. Feel free to toss it in the comments there and I will update.
  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    Just click on my name, right here (if you're reading this in the disqus stream on the site, if not, just google World of Slippy) ;-)

    If you could link me back to your post, too, I'd love to give it a look over.
  • Michael McGimpsey · 1 year ago
    I agree slippy. I am in exactly the same boat as you. FriendFeed is just what we all need.
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Bing! (Ask Scoble what that means)
  • Scobleizer · 1 year ago
    I agree, just don't tell Bob Bly.
  • Tyler · 1 year ago
    hail the pioneers! ;)
  • kosmar · 1 year ago
    geeks!
  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    The truest calling.
  • loupaglia · 1 year ago
    hoping we all continue to recognize that we are truly inside an echo chamber, it seems more prevalent now than ever before. FriendFeed could be a game-changer, I don't think it is a given, it is too new but it certainly has promise. And it certainly does level the playing field. At the same time, this matters to the early early adopters as most of early and late majority haven't even heard of FriendFeed yet.
  • Judi Sohn · 1 year ago
    Exactly, Lou. And if they have heard of FriendFeed, they haven't figured out why they should care yet. I enjoy my time on FF because it gives me a fast look at what the rest of the echo chamber is squawking about. But a game changer? No, not so much. Just today's Flavor of the Month.
  • Joe Dawson · 1 year ago
    Great post I agree about the relationship building as conversation is engaging and it feels like an ever growing community!
  • Duncan Riley · 1 year ago
    Spot on and great post. Dare one say that FF is egalitarian, and that's a good thing for us all.
  • charlieanzman · 1 year ago
    Duncan - You forced me to look up egalitarian ... hmmm.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    I disagree. It's a false level.

    Sure, there are A-list early adopters mixing with the riffraff on FF, but as more people move on over and start participating, you'll end up with the same caste system that exists everywhere else. It's the same reason that everything ends up looking like Techmeme after a while. Everyone joins, everyone follows the same A-listers, they get more comments... and so on and so on and so on.
  • Mark Trapp · 1 year ago
    I think the difference with Friendfeed and things like Friendfeed is that it becomes much easier for so-called "A-listers" to follow everyone else. Scoble complains about the limitations of Twitter and Facebook in ways that seem to suggest this. I may never be an A-lister, but to be able to converse with the A-listers and have them talk to me and react to my ideas equalizes the playing field much much more than any previous technology.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    Well, sure, at this point. But at the point when, say, Scoble is subscribed to 20,000 people on FriendFeed, how much is he really going to be talking to you? It's more like the classic elevator ride. You have five minutes as an early adopter to catch someone's attention. If you aren't in that first group, you are going to be just one of the unwashed masses later.
  • Mark Trapp · 1 year ago
    This is not to defeat what you're saying, as I think it may be too early to tell, but I'm pretty sure Scoble does, in fact, have close to that many subscriptions in Friendfeed already.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    Nope... not even close. Under 2600, so that's a bit over 10% of what he's following on Twitter. I'm not entirely sure there are 20,000 people on FF yet.
  • Julian Baldwin · 1 year ago
    I agree with this post based on FriendFeeds current state and population, however, I see Cyndy A's point. Right now FF represents the common man and over time some will rise in prestige. We are finding a new class of A-lister's because they are focused on different types of conversations and not operating under a business model.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    Exactly. We are seeing the rise of Louis to the A-list right now. Each time one of these things pops up, there will be someone else who either floats or clambers to the top of the heap. But the heap is always going to be there, no matter how much people want to believe it's going to last in a more distributed state. For whatever reason, as humans, we have that need to establish that hierarchy wherever we go. We just aren't comfortable as communal animals.
  • Julian Baldwin · 1 year ago
    That is extremely interesting. I don't think it is we aren't comfortable as communal animals as much as that is the result of our collective social dynamics and out of our control.
  • CyndyA · 1 year ago
    Julian, I think it's innate. All primates look to have a leader. They just aren't on FriendFeed. ;)
  • charlieanzman · 1 year ago
    Unfortunately, I have a meeting because I'm finding the dialog here (and yes, on Friendfeed) fascinating. There's a lot more to Friendfeed that what 'some' may view on the surface .... and I'm betting there's more to come. This wasn't 'just another Friendfeed post'. I believe what I posted and I believe many others will see it over time. Thanks to all for being part of the dialog.
  • Chris Ridenour · 1 year ago
    I personally think that all of these techs, FF, Twitter, etc. can bring anyone willing to put the time and effort into creating these relationships with these A-Listers level with them. Sure its nice to have someone like Scoble comment on something I share but if you can constantly get the attention of the A-list, the tech community isn't normally one to brush you off because they've never heard of you, I find its the opposite - they will research who you are (and then brush you off if you've never actually done anything).