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FriendFeed Sucks, Twitter rocks, Mesh, TwitterSpy and Dave Winer - Software Generated Steve Gillmor
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We agree to ignore the pedestrian nature of breathing in and out that underlies everything. Twitter has in recent days shown the ability to manage such peaks though the overall flow does not yet match the peak of Twittermania that lead to the collapse and reworking on the basic systems.
FriendFeed may have gathered a third of Microsoft’s forthcoming Mesh architecture. Twitterspy is therefore vulnerable on several levels. It would be the interrupt, some input device that triggers a disruption that moves resources to process the incoming data or a timer like object internally that wakes up and commands processes to predetermined or calculated rules based on aggregate input over time. Over time we build up confidence in these people streams and services.
It’s the straight talk we’ve come to expect at the time, namely none.
Whether you jump in now or wait a few months IMAP support made bidirectional syncing of email possible but Google stepped up and took strategic advantage with Gmail integration and finessed the lack of real time network effects shifting the blame squarely on the parasite API suckers and their dark master FriendFeed.
Of course in the OneNote days it was impossible to get past Allchin and the Office Palace guards to encourage a free OneNote player for the browser. Because of the intense developer interest in creating applications for the iPhone. And worst of all no roadblock to time wasting via an unviewable Web experience. To be sure the iPhone’s price point and lack of Office integration proved sufficient to allow IT departments to operate their own cloud storage mechanisms such that data owned by that enterprise would only be stored on this thing.
Friend Connect asks for that permission rather than demand it of its users on the Cloud. First the Coke Classic question: When’s the Mac version? Yes but it can do so much more.
Yahoo looks like Hillary’s shadow campaign as it walks through the motions of building out a social media fabric for months but it was only recently that Google responded with a series of Campfire announcements and Google I O and Facebook’s second F8 developer conference later today. Mesh atomizes Google, Facebook and other social constructs into virtual devices that can be combined from the ground up to attack viral opportunities as they emerge. I asked product manager Keith Coleman whether a Labs feature could remember the position of chat moles once resized and placed outside the Gmail container. Such a Silverlight Desktop would accelerate demand for some version of cross platform compatibility by approaching it at a higher level focused on social search and other more disruptive economic models.
These monopolies Windows and Office derived from the transition from the previous era of computing where IT maintained control over the local area network and the applications companies allowed their workers to use. In both cases providing access to the core user population in a way that allows Twitter’s vanilla services to be extended to head off better funded or fast followers who don’t have at least a good idea of some business models.
In other words there is no comparable access to FriendFeed’s search capability which also suffers in its native Web client from a less than efficient rollup of conversations containing keywords into 3 or 4 of the initial comments a link to the bulk in the middle and then the rest of the puppets and ex Techcrunch analysts who by appearing to rationally debate the pluses and minuses of FriendFeed versus Twitter suggest FriendFeed even exists in the absence of Twitter. With clients not only for Twitter Summize and FriendFeed offer workarounds.
When you hear the open crowd attack the notion of the enterprise network. But this one felt different. Google has made no change to the default settings for Contact auto creation but instead have separated contacts into two buckets: My Contacts and Suggested Contacts. This activity which we’ve corrected had an affect of overloading our main database resulting in the error pages and slowness most people are now encountering.
No wonder we take it so personally when they break.
FriendFeed would do well to cooperatively align with Twitter and use its activist community to keep Twitter in line as real time flow whether on the company’s options to a surrender of search to Google and of the cream of their acquisition talent pool to Google, Microsoft and Salesforce. Can Mesh support Twitter streams orchestrated by identity mapping via affinities and abstracted to devices across OS mobile and corporate divides via Silverlight?
Those of us who have been using shared items for years would lose all of the data, in the process freeing us from the tyranny of our jobs as consumers. But over time the true spirits emerge. That’s one of the things we do to make money will evolve to follow this new architecture.
Imagine what happens if our Twitter Follow cloud and its Track filtering enable us to nail up and down connections in real time streams over Jabber and XMPP. But this one felt different.
We found an errant API project sucking Track clouds out of the Twitter core finally reached the critical mass necessary to hip Jack, whoever that is. The tweets continue to roll in 20 hours after the fact and even today it is laughed off by so called enterprise seers as a toy. You know the drill and the comments on this post will likely personalize the pushback.
Dave Winer’s intuition that FriendFeed is an iterative child of Twitter, an evolution of the Facebook activity stream without the confusion of the hoarding vibe of that service is right.
