Comments on: Will FriendFeed Become a New Source for Fast Quotes for Bloggers and Journalists? http://thomashawk.com/2008/06/will-friendfeed-become-new-source-for.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:35:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Louis Gray http://thomashawk.com/2008/06/will-friendfeed-become-new-source-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-1502 Louis Gray Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=269#comment-1502 This started happening back in February. I wrote a post on it:<br /><br />FriendFeed Discussions Break Through the Walled Garden<br />http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/02/friendfeed-discussions-break-through.html<br /><br />Since then, it has only increased with regularity. This started happening back in February. I wrote a post on it:

FriendFeed Discussions Break Through the Walled Garden
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/02/friendfeed-discussions-break-through.html

Since then, it has only increased with regularity.

]]> By: Aaron http://thomashawk.com/2008/06/will-friendfeed-become-new-source-for.html/comment-page-1#comment-1503 Aaron Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=269#comment-1503 Marshall has used Twitter as a source in the past, but as you note, FriendFeed keeps all the related conversation (mostly) together in a way that Twitter doesn't (at least not without third party tools such as Summize).<br /><br />I don't know that it'll be right for every story, but when the story focuses on something that's very webby, very 2.0ish, and very close to the userbases of social media sites, <b>not</b> including user reactions would seem to be a major omission. Marshall has used Twitter as a source in the past, but as you note, FriendFeed keeps all the related conversation (mostly) together in a way that Twitter doesn’t (at least not without third party tools such as Summize).

I don’t know that it’ll be right for every story, but when the story focuses on something that’s very webby, very 2.0ish, and very close to the userbases of social media sites, not including user reactions would seem to be a major omission.

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