Sarah Perez

Yes. I will surely unsubscribe by end of day and delete my account. - Louis Gray

I agree. I think we all need to abandon FriendFeed and set up personal gopher servers instead. - Akiva Moskovitz

Same here, I woke up this morning and that was on my things to do list! - Joe Dawson (beta) via Alert Thingy

I do not rellay agree. I think FF can do more, for instance search and filtering. Just like I do now with RSSmeme and Yahoo pipes to filter some noise - Arturo Servin via Alert Thingy

Like the counter point of view Sarah. Gonna think about this one a bit more. - Hutch Carpenter

Is Friend Feed Doomed? Haha, can't imagine anyone here is going to click through on that headline. - Thomas Hawk

The fact that FB & MySpace have implemented 'status message' features hasn't killed Twitter. Why would Google FriendConnect et. al. kill FriendFeed? - Rubin Sfadj

too much bold font - tomio geron

@Thomas It is always the case with the Link Sharing Websites. We just read the titles & less than 5% I guess is the CTR. - Nikpay

certainly not- FF is still in early beta adoption phase. I have to agree @arturo with the filters /Pipes and Search. If FF has a tab where I can create my own pipes across 'friends' and then display results of personalization into a separate tab, then its becomes one of the most powerful vehicles on the internet for content management and sharing. Secondly, an 'alert; tab for terms also would be great - I make and break alerts using google,but this can be implemented on FF (I think). BTW FF can have openid - Peter Dawson

No. - Jason Kaneshiro

why so much bolding in the post? - acedanger via twhirl

Are posts about Friendfeed being doomed, doomed? - cmiper

I think we need to see the takeup of the social aggregation services that Google and Facebook launch before we pass judgment. I recently added my flickr photostream to my facebook mini-feed, but I haven't seen many people doing the same, or any noticeable effect... - Edward Barnieh

I commented on the post itself, but I can summarize: "Nope." - Vince DeGeorge

According to your theory, Twitter should of been killed the day Google bought Jaiku but that didnt happen because of the particular people that use Twitter. I have a feeling that FF is at its tipping point for usurping the Twitter crowds from Google, MS, etc. - Andrew Baron

I think Jarred wrote a very good post. There is a lot of stuff to think about. I'm inclined to agree with him, although I better not say that out loud on FF. Might get smacked by the FF fans out here ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

</smack> @Alexander van Elsas </endsmack> - LOL, what exactly are you agreeing too ? That if FF is not bought out, they will not survive ?? How can you come to that conclustion without know the business model or exit strategy for FF ? - Peter Dawson

I think it's too early to call it. We thought Twitter was the bee's knees at one time before Friendfeed came along and challenged that. Who knows what will happen in a year's time? - Morton Fox

Didn't really expect anyone commenting here to agree with me, haha, but I have enjoyed reading all your thoughts. This is much different than status messages or Jaiku "not killing" Twitter. Twitter and those services attack a problem in a similar, though competitive way. FriendFeed and the "connect" initiatives attack a problem in opposite, theoretically divergent ways. I think FriendFeed has misinterpreted the direction of the social web. It won't die tomorrow, but I think its days are numbered. - Jarred Taylor

Ahh, the daily FFFodder. Nope, not even close. - JC unwired

Ok, and for my next FriendFeed link bait of the day... "OMFG FriendFeed is doomed, doomed, DOOMED! It will be dead in 48 hours!!!!!!! digg digg digg this here!!!!!! - Thomas Hawk

doesn't sound inflammatory or anything, or does it ? - Tudor via Alert Thingy

not if ironman can save it! - Karl

Today, FriendFeed is fine. Tomorrow, there will be an explosion of new social sites. You'll be able to plug in to every blog you visit. Every time, you'll have to create a new profile, load those details into FriendFeed, and then come here to keep track with limited ability to interact. Why not have identity, interaction, and aggregation through a single log-in? The social web is going to explode, and I don't know that FriendFeed will be able to keep up, especially now that the big boys are in the game - Jarred Taylor

@peter I think Jarred is right about everything becoming social. Destinations are part of a business model that marks the web 2.0 era. Once we get rid of that business model the web will open up and become socially more connected. In that sense Friendfeed right now is doing the opposite as Jarred noted. But I'm sure they will open up too. FF just wants the aggregations to pass through their database, because it will allow them to provide user powered search. Facebook uses the same approach - Alexander van Elsas

It can't. I spent way too much time here (and every minute was worth it... :) - Charlie Anzman

You can even think about it economically. Google and Facebook have enormous server capacity. If they control the identities, then they don't have to waste server load sending spiders across dozens or hundreds of different services checking for updates for hundreds of thousands of users. It's hosted with them. FriendFeed faces the problem that it wants to scale, but it knows more people equals more profiles on more services to ping. And so far, no business model to support expansion. - Jarred Taylor

James , it is not doomed, You can see the number of people commenting on your post, which means that there is big community here(even if we are early adopters). And community makes everything. Including Google FriendConnect. And also keep in mind, guys behind FF are the ones who gave us Gmail, Google Reader and 'Don't be evil' - Varun Mahajan

@Varun, don't assume that since it attracted early adopters FF will also attract mainstream users. That is a huge step that few ever are able to take. - Alexander van Elsas

I think Netflix and Amazon teach us that sometimes simple business models are quite difficult to execute, and first-movers with those business models prove really, really hard to crush. One of FriendFeed's strengths is that it not only competes with other social networks, it extends them. - Mitch Wagner

Interesting how even among the FF comments, there is no solid consensus. (Also, just FYI - that was a guest post on sarahintampa.com - but I love how it made everyone think.) - Sarah Perez

ok just think of it.. if FF is doomed, then why is it that every1 is complaining about twitter being down on FF ?? da whole twitter community is commenting on FF once again as on ( 20/05:4.25EDT). Early adopters and generic twitter users are being driven across properties by simple virtue of availability and ease of use - Peter Dawson

Hmm...a "FriendFeed doomed" post has a half dozen comments at the original post, and tons of comments on FriendFeed. Perhaps this is similar to unusually high statistical spikes for TV shows about Nielsen families, but it's important to note that FriendFeed is more than an aggregator. - Ontario Emperor

It was a good idea to add the FF comments to the blog. Looks great. - Alejandro S.

At the original post, FriendFeed Comments 35+. Disqus Comments: 7+. Competition? Seems like FF can cut Disqus grass. - mojay

Although I wish FriendFeed comments were threaded... :) - Ontario Emperor

Sooner or later people will get it. Fast forward 12 months, and FriendFeed is the platform Facebook was supposed to be. Consuming raw FriendFeed material will remain popular among us early adopters, but up-and-coming apps/services built on top of FF will successfully reach and cater specific portions of the mainstream audience (FriendFeedInBigFontForTheAlmostBlind.com is probably already in the works! ;) - Aviv

More comments here than on the post means nothing, but nice try folks. :) There is no doubt FF trumps post comments. I never said FF is doomed because it is useless. Today, it is very useful. I argue that FF is probably doomed because the big players are creating solutions to fragmentation that will rob FriendFeed, a small fish, of its mission. We won't need to use FF to aggregate and annotate fragmented content when the content is centralized for us by Google/FB's new id management systems. - Jarred Taylor

Jarred you are talking to the turkey that is getting ready for Christmas dinner, no supporters here. but I still think you wrote a pretty good analysis. If things will work out that way, time will tell ;-) - Alexander van Elsas