Are Friendfeed Ads On The Way?

When I woke up from a great dream about tech blogs linking to each other, I loaded up Friendfeed and was hit with a message. What struck me as odd was that the item didn’t appear to come from a “room” or from a “person/user” but rather Friendfeed itself.

Here’s the message:

As you can see it notes “shameless self-promotion” although I didn’t notice that when the item first loaded (didn’t have my glasses on so I may have missed it). Could this be the start of advertising in the “stream” for Friendfeed?

Update: Funny enough, the above “promotion” seems to be stuck to the page for a very long time – it seems like the last few items are hours old allowing the promotion to remain – something seems off.

Friendfeed user Tina wonders the same thing with her post asking whether tags and possibly advertising is coming. Tina took a look at the source and it also looks like some sort of promotions might be on their way. Others in the Frienfeed thread also believe ads are coming from this item. It looks like you can “hide” the item.

Could ads be on the way? Somehow I am betting Friendfeed users will be ok with ads because they want to support the Friendfeed team while the same ads on Twitter would bring upon a revolt.

If Friendfeed pushes ads to the content stream, you have to believe that Twitter and Facebook won’t be far behind. Last week I asked Mark Zuckerberg why he allows Facebook users to use desktop tools without ads.