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Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

Joe Dawson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:24:38 -0000

Great presentation, also checked out your post on Google Apps very impressive :)

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Web Design — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:27:10 -0000

nice way to present things, is there something why there are less users in winters than in summers. I have even observed the stats of few other sites and happened to find out same trend; less visits in winter than in spring or summer.

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Sebastian Wain — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:52:24 -0000

Seems like you didn't customize ff towards productivity.
I have built my network with "nodes" related to my daily work and they really help in resource discovery beyond the
mainstream media.

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:06:46 -0000

<quote>In other words, "I prefer to watch mind-numbing tv..."</quote>
Not much that different.

FriendFeed is also a source for dopamine. The more dopamine you release, the more you want to go back. Each visit to the site makes you feel less bored for a few minutes. But what makes you less bored makes you also an addict to a time-sink, which in my opinion doesn't deliver an equivalent value.

This is a note to myself. I would love to hear opinions on how FriendFeed let you create things, make things better instead of wasting your valuable time.

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Laura Norvig — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:00 -0000

If you think that launching Rooms was part of what contributed to your growth, please, please, please make the rooms easier to discover and promote them more. You could have a page featuring the most active rooms, the biggest rooms, etc.

I love FriendFeed and to the sourpuss who said "you can see what boring people share", I have to respectfully and wholeheartedly disagree. FriendFeed is an important professional development tool for me, and it does it quicker than any other method I can think of. I look forward to its continuing development.

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shonzilla — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:50:47 -0000

Thanks for this peek into tribulations that FriendFeed had while not many outside people cared.
Now, the game is changing - more people (users of social aggregators) are beginning to understand the importance of human filters.

We all have yet to understand how to human-powered filters work or how to make them work best for each of us. The net result is that FriendFeed is one of those tools that allow us to process more information and narrow our attention spans in order to stay in this accelerating game called Web 2.0. Or was it Web 3.0?

Cheers!
Shonzilla

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smbeebe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:28:30 -0000

WOW, fantastic stuff Brett - thanks! So glad I signed up in early March 2008. It's been a great sled ride all the way!! :) I love FriendFeed and am very impressed with your high level of personal touch with regard to incoming requests. FriendFeed's growth is phenomenal and will only continue to soar as you blast out new features and improvements. Thanks for the great work!

Susan Beebe
http://FriendFeed.com/Susan...

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baldmaniac — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:29:16 -0000

For me Friendfeed has been the place to hang out ever since I discovered it. The amount of information flowing through it is astounding and the fact that people here are actually nice and helpful (compared to other places where they are just obnoxious) is wonderful. I have learnt a lot since I started FriendFeeding! And thanks for posting that presentation. Now I know where to send my friends if they ask me about FriendFeed.

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Dario Salvelli — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:28:47 -0000

Thank you for the slide Bret! So rilevant the FF traffic for every new startup. No panic!. ;) Do u have some video?

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Scott P. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:47:35 -0000

In other words, "I prefer to watch mind-numbing tv..."

Don't bother with the brightness knob either... it doesn't work...

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

Louis Gray — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:55:13 -0000

Of course, your joining FriendFeed was a big boost in terms of how they continued to grow. There were some good contributing folks who were noisier in the March-May timeframe to get this thing off the ground, as you know.

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Brett Slatkin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:22:53 -0000

Happy to see you're blogging again, Bret!

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Scott P. — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:05:36 -0000

Yeah, but now here comes lifestream.fm...

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Scobleizer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:48:00 -0000

Funny how I join services just as they start growing wildly. Joining FriendFeed in February was the best decision I've made all year.

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Scabr — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:03:13 -0000

The best of FriendFeed : Tech discussions. Btw,where's link of FF-this post-discussion?:)

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

Douglas Karr — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:45:20 -0000

Very few people recognize nor plan for the momentum that accompanies social platforms and mediums. I've got a couple social networks and see this linear growth pattern on 2 of the Ning sites I assist in administering. I believe there should be away to predict the slope of these lines dependent on your network, audience, and quality of the site and content. Congratulations to Friendfeed on the terrific growth and exceptional interface. I'm still twittering away, but I find myself engaged often on Friendfeed.

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ajbatac — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:46:55 -0000

Great presentation Bret! :)

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mndoci — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:39:42 -0000

Bret ... Happy to note that The Life Scientists caught your eye. Friendfeed has become quite a valuable part of our community, spawning conference backchannels and all kinds of daughter rooms and topics. Nice slides/analysis. Would have been a fun event to attend

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:08:03 -0000

try this:
one of the world's useless, time sink site that delivers joy and enjoyment for a duration of 2 minutes. you can see what boring people share and favorite and talk on to feel the "oh, we are so cool. look all these glorious, hip things i like".

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

James Mishra — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:41:26 -0000

The graphs made me laugh like crazy. I love this peephole into what it is like to work at FriendFeed.

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amy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:39:50 -0000

Thanks Bret, I get tired of trying to explain friend feed, now I can have people read this and get an idea of what it is about.
Auntie Amy

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Oliver Ding — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:17:33 -0000

I created a group for Friendfeed on SlideShare.net:
http://www.slideshare.net/g...

Would you mind share your presentation on SlideShare.net?

Many thanks!

Oliver Ding

http://friendfeed.com/olive...

http://friendfeed.com/rooms...

Re: My FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab - Bret Taylor's blog

jeffisageek — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:35:27 -0000

hey bret thanks for sharing the presentation. good stuff!