Is FriendFeed Grabbing Your Attention?
Posted by Nick O'Neill on April 28th, 2008 10:40 AM
Hutch Carpenter has posted an article suggesting that the attention of early adopters is migrating to FriendFeed. He uses quotes from Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk and Steven Hodson to support his argument that people are spending more time on FriendFeed. Robert Scoble for one is as early adopter as you can get.
I would argue that Robert Scoble is not always most accurate in determining future trends. Conversely, if Scoble ends up using a product on a regular basis, it may just eventually become a trend. I consider myself an early adopter but it definitely takes some effort to get me to become a regular user of a new product or service. For instance, I’ve been on Twitter for a long time but only started using it regularly back in December.
Robert Scoble said that FriendFeed is taking more and more of his attention away from RSS feeds. I don’t have the same issue but I can say that Twitter definitely has because I now find breaking news via my Twitter feed. I could see a similar transition taking place to FriendFeed if more of my friends were commenting on items on the site, but currently they aren’t. That doesn’t mean that my experience is the same as others though. I’ve included a poll below to see what peoples’ experience is with FriendFeed. Are you using the service more often?
April 28th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Nick - you raise a good point there about Scoble potentially making things a trend. There’s a Malcolm Gladwell trendsetter aspect to that. But FriendFeed will ultimately need to demonstrate its own value. The fact that three other prominent bloggers have a similar feeling about FriendFeed does say something about that latter point.
Love the poll. I’ll be interested to see how that turns out.
Hutch