I never got FriendFeed. I signed up for an account just after they launched but, honestly, I never got it and never spent much time on it.
Now, after the acquisition by Facebook a few months ago, many are reporting that FriendFeed is dead. I can’t agree more. The point, IMHO, is that it never really took off and it ended up becoming the next Jaiku, acquired by a big name to be taken out of the game.
Can someone tell me three main values brought by FriendFeed? From the technological point of view, there is nothing that Facebook couldn’t really implement. Moreover, most social networks can now easily link to Twitter, so I’m able to easily re-create my FriendFeed stream both on Twitter or Facebook… so what?
If you look at the September data (not shown above) you will see there is a huge drop, also due to the fact some power users like Robert Scoble or Louis Grey started using it less and less.
That said, what’s next for FriendFeed? I don’t think it will keep being a standalone service like it is now, but I guess it will be somewhat integrated to give more power to the Facebook realtime feed. The only thing that it is clear for everyone is that it has been a very big deal for the founders and investors, since $50M is a lot of money for a service that was basically going nowhere.
The receipt that led to such result? Silicon Valley + Opnion Leaders that use it and spread the word about it + founders coming from Google or other big companies. Do you agree?
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