The key to sustained success in new media is to make users' lives easier. Google offered better search, the DVR offers a better user experience than the VCR, etc. With that in mind, a group of former Google guys have created FriendFeed, a site that pulls together all of the things you're sharing with friends across all of the sites. The idea is that people go to their friends for recommendations on everything. This site just makes it easy. The folks at BusinessWeek seem impressed.
These guys decided that it made no sense to share things on Facebook, YouTube and Flickr when you could just share them all in one place. FriendFeed is not a replacement for those sites, it just organizes it. It's the same concept as an RSS feed, which organizes the news you want to read and puts all in one place. Sounds good to me. I don't share a whole other than photos, although this would seem to remove the cut-and-paste link situation on a site like YouTube or The New York Times. Yup, I'm still cutting and pasting. I find it easier than sending one of those automated share e-mails. Maybe that fact takes me out of the target for FriendFeed. Am I the only one still doing that?
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