Monday, June 29, 2009

Twitter vs FriendFeed

After using Twitter and FriendFeed for a while, here are my observations:
  • I love the auto-refresh on FriendFeed, realtime becomes visible
  • I love the simplicity of Twitter
  • I especially love the simplicity of both the Twitter and FriendFeed mobile modes (why is efficiency only for mobiles?)
  • Twitter is just a broadcast platform
  • FriendFeed is just a meta-bulletin board, not unlike phpBB or the like (sans admins)
  • Twitter will need a radical paradigm-shift to get beyond the "broadcast only" mode
  • FriendFeed needs to find a way for users to downgrade unwanted "commenters"
I still prefer Google Reader and RSS.


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