Comments on: Here’s How FriendFeed Will Generate Revenue

By: Let’s Watch Twitter Become FriendFeed | CenterNetworks

Let’s Watch Twitter Become FriendFeed | CenterNetworks — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:46:21 +0000

[...] past summer I wrote about how Friendfeed could generate massive income and also reach the mainstream. Sadly that never happened because [...]

By: vBulletin 4.0 Is Coming…Is It The FriendFeed Forums? | CenterNetworks

vBulletin 4.0 Is Coming…Is It The FriendFeed Forums? | CenterNetworks — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:14:27 +0000

[...] of their platform where publishers could run an in-house version. I thought this was the way Friendfeed could generate massive revenue. While that revenue stream is gone, I still have hope that the forum software providers were [...]

By: Anyone Still Using Friendfeed? | CenterNetworks

Anyone Still Using Friendfeed? | CenterNetworks — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:55 +0000

[...] over to Facebook. Which is very, very unfortunate since I believe that the Friendfeed technology has the potential to create huge disruption in the forums provider [...]

By: Looking at FriendFeed’s today, envisioning a better future | thebluebear dot-com

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:36:33 +0000

[...] totally agree on this view that, in its core, “FriendFeed is a social bulletin board service… At the most basic level, [...]

By: The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed | Deep Jive Interests

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:41:42 +0000

[...] Stern describes it as something like a forum. I would agree … but perhaps what Friendfeed needs to do, or become, is something more [...]

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:06:02 +0000

agree Morgan – I hope FF looks to some of these ideas.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:06:32 +0000

I think it’d be potentially a huge boon for FF. They could be a sort of distributed Facebook even, with someone’s home stream showing their interactions with other sites, but the sites operating as they always have. I think there’d be a lot of possibilities to pick up tons of users, and differentiate themselves from the others. Who knows. Sounds good to me.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:07:34 +0000

thanks sameer – while ff forums wouldn’t meet all the needs, it would for most of the typical forums. also, there would have to be a registration system as you note – what’s nice is that you could offer your members a way to also register for ff at the same time.

By: sameer

sameer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:00:49 +0000

Allen: Interesting post, though that doesnt really cover all the use cases of a typical forum software. Forum softwares have a lot of boring use cases like corporate forums, product support forums with only registered users having access etc, that friend feed would not be able to cover. Neverthless, this would be interesting and fit a large number of uses.

I think increasingly what is happening is that generic forum software like phpbb/Invision is being repalced with specialized software for that use case like ticketing softwares, social discussion /comments softwares, product support softwares, answers software etc