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How can the FriendFeed team help improve Facebook?

BY BRANDON WHALEN

I am rather excited about this Facebook/FriendFeed situation. Why? I think the FriendFeed team can really improve Facebook.

Lately, Facebook has seemed to be in a transition phase (half stuck between becoming a Twitter competitor and sticking to their roots). While it is hard to say what sort of functionality they are aiming for at Facebook., they are certainly giving us a look at the future.

FriendFeed brings a lot of brain power into the mix. Now that Facebook has acquired the know-how, there are a lot of things they can be doing to improve my experience.

Include a real-time search of status messages.

Facebook needs to become more open. I want to search status messages and see what people are talking about up to the minute. This is a no-brainer.

Be my one-stop internet identity. 

This means Facebook has to adopt the aggregation qualities of FriendFeed. I want to be able to connect my Facebook with my FriendFeed, my blog, and my Brightkite. I don't necessarily want to publish posts from all of those networks, but I want Facebook to recognize all of those networks as me. If someone connects with me on one network, I would like for them to be able to visit my Facebook profile and get a more complete sense of the person I am. 

I want to easily link/mention my friend's profiles in my posts. 

There is no easy way to reference a friend in a status update on Facebook. On Twitter this is as easy at including someone's handle. I would like to be able to type a friend's name and have it appear as a link to his profile in my status update. Even better, if Facebook would allow us to aggregate our profiles from other networks we could easily use a Twitter handle or another username to mention each other in posts. Those links could all head to our Facebook profile pages, making them much more useful and relevant. 

Make Facebook less messy. 

Here is where the FriendFeed team can really make improvements. In Facebook, there are so many different places to interact with other users that it gets confusing. I think it reduces the amount of quality interaction. 

Let's say you see Dave's status and you want to respond. You can:

1. Post a comment on his status message, but risk the annoyance of getting notifications every time a user you don't know also comments on that status update. 
2. Head to Dave's profile so you can comment on his wall. 
3. Start a chat with Dave to continue the discussion
4. Send Dave a mail message

Let say you choose to post on Dave's wall and now he sees your wall post. He can:

1. Comment you back on the post you put on his wall
2. Head to your profile and post his response on your wall 
3. Start a chat with you
4. Send you a mail message

Now lets say Dave is a total noob (which is the case for a lot of Facebook users). He accidentally posts his response in another status update. All of a sudden this conversation has gone from a status update, to one person's wall, to the next person's wall, back to a status update. Needless to say, the entire process has a lot of room to be simplified. 

There are things I like about both sites, and by taking the strengths of both FF and FB, perhaps they can mash together a new social media super-power. 

What do I like about Facebook? 

Facebook is where I can find most of the people I know personally. It is less scary and more acceptable to a wide range of users because you generally connect with more people that you know in real-life. This is partially why they have been acquiring so many new users. The problem is: Facebook has not entirely kept up with the way people communicate and connect, leaving them with one foot in the past, one foot in the future, and an interface that is equally as stuck in-between.  

What do I like about FriendFeed?

All of my internet identities are pulled into one convenient location that is very intuitive and easy to use. The problem is: The average user doesn't know as many people on FriendFeed and is less inclined to spend time there, even though the interface is way better.  

TAGS: FACEBOOK • FRIENDFEED

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Podcast with the Penguin - Jeremy Tanner

BY JASON CORMIER

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Room 214 Co-founder, Jason Cormier, interviews Boulder-based social media consultant, Jeremy Tanner.

In this podcast, we discuss:

1. To follow or not to follow: Acceptable twitter manners - great people in person doesn't always transfer to great people on Twitter.

2. Advantages of Facebook vs Twitter: Facebook throttles down notifications, meaning you won't receive constant updates from a person on Facebook, even if they are posting 20 items an hour.

3. A day in the life of Jeremy Tanner: It starts with his iphone (of course)

4. Bridging the gap between online and offline communications: It's about keeping two-way conversations. Also, don't forget or be afraid to pick up the phone. 

 

Be sure to check out Jeremy at http://www.jeremytanner.com, and follow him via twitter at http://twitter.com/penguin

TAGS: JEREMY TANNER • PENGUIN • TWITTER • FACEBOOK • FRIENDFEED • LINKEDIN • SOCIAL MEDIA • CAPTURE THE CONVERSATION PODCAST

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A Social Media Discussion with Marshall Kirkpatrick

BY JASON CORMIER

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Room 214 Co-founder, Jason Cormier, interviews ReadWriteWeb's lead blogger and social media consultant, Marshall Kirkpatrick.

In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Quick Advice for what's working best in blogging these days (unique analysis, being first to release the news, posting out to others and broader participation in new social networks).

2. What's exciting in terms of new social media tools? Friendfeed's new instant messaging integration, enabling people to be more consistently engaged in online conversations.

3. ReadWriteWeb and their latest project, Jobwire.

4. How the state of the economy is effecting social media. The importance of Community Managers in social media: Do startups need Community Mangers?

5. The need for a Community Manager as it relates to drawing out the highlights of conversations, team building and response.

Note: Talking with Marshall is always a treat because he is so effectively tracking with what matters most in practical applications of social media. We had the pleasure of using him as a consultant last year to review our blog and podcasting application, Post Zinger - and he was able to provide some great insight within minutes of our first conversation.

Be sure to check out his new Jobwire project with ReadWriteWeb, and follow his personal MarshallK blog or via twitter at http://twitter.com/marshallk

TAGS: MARSHALL KIRKPATRICK • READWRITEWEB • JOBWIRE • SOCIAL MEDIA • COMMUNITY MANAGER • FRIENDFEED • BLOGGER • BLOGGING • CAPTURE THE CONVERSATION PODCAST • POSTZINGER • INSTANT MESSAGING

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Twhirl adds Friendfeed for Lifestreaming Stalking

BY JAMES CLARK

Twhirl is a great tool to use to manage the inflow of Twitter posts.

Here's a video of Ingrid at Room 214 managing at least seven different Twitter accounts in Twhirl.

With the introduction of Twhirl's Friendfeed support, which includes the ability to search, lookup users, write comments and bookmark items from the stream of content from your friend's Friendfeed.

To me the best feature is when you look up a Friendfeed user, you have two tabs to select from:

1. User's feed display: including stuff from all services they have shared

2. Discussions, which are the entries they commented or liked on Friendfeed.

I've been using Twhirl's Friendfeed support this weekend, and even though it seems like 90 percent of the content is coming from Twitter, but the ability to see friend's updates to other applications such as Digg, StumbleUpon, YouTube is a huge plus.

Here's the video from Seesmic, the creators of Twhirl:

TAGS: TWHIRL • FRIENDFEED

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Is it April's Fool Yet?

BY STEPAN MAZUROV

We thought it would be bad to lauch on April 1st, because many of our readers wouldn't believe their eyes, so one day early it is! 

The new site is here, in all its rounded glory. It is long overdue, most of our company has lost hope for it ever seeing the light, but after 6 months of development, its finally here.  The new, improved podast section, brand new articles directory which we invite everyone to keep track of as we will be posting some awesome things there in the coming weeks/months and of course the reworked video tutorials section that actually makes sense and is a lot more user friendly are finally here!  

Some things to come are improved author profiles that includes links to our personal blogs as well as other social sites (did somebody say friendfeed integration?)  Keep on the look out for more new features! We would also love to hear your feedback on the new design, nay or yay? Let us know in the comments.

TAGS: NEW SITE • CAPTURE THE CONVERSATION • NEW DESIGN • FRIENDFEED • VIDEO TUTORIALS • SOCIAL MEDIA ARTICLES

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