I have been watching the whole friendfeed frenzy today with great interest. Louis Gray started it with this post about all the elite bloggers who had already signed up to the service.
That started a wave of support in which those A-listers listed started being bombarded with connections from other users. First up a big well done to the friendfeed guys for keeping the thing up under all that pressure!
Friends List
We have been asked n(to the power) times if we are going to support any kind of friend list within fav.or.it and we have always answered – ‘yes, but when the time is right.’
The power of a friend list within fav.or.it for me has always been how to leverage your attention data. Using that data you could compare your likes/dislikes with each of your friends and then pull out what they have read recently and suggest it back to you.
Today after going back and taking a more careful look at friendfeed (I sign up for everything just like everyone else!) I did start to realise the power of seeing what your friends are up to.
Message In a Bottle
Earlier in the day Duncan Riley had left me a massive message (am sure he didn’t intend it for me) stating that it would be so much more powerful if the comments that people were making against the stream go back to the blog post in question. Mike Butcher then left a comment pretty much stating that fav.or.it was the only solution that was capable of doing this.
The concept is laughably simple,
1) Stream of comments / blog posts that any of your friends are leaving (they don’t even have to be members of the fav.or.it service!)
2) If you see a comment / blog post that you want to add your 5 cents to, then you click reply – type in your reply and the comment gets sent off.
3) Your friends see you replying to them (if they are also following you) and you can continue the conversation.
The BIG point here – is that all these comments are going back to the blog – the conversation is happening across the blogosphere not just within one service.
The only question now is – do we make this a feature within fav.or.it (’comment stream?’) or a separate service that leverages our technology?
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