Deep Jive Interests

The funny thing is that unlike Twitter, which took me over a year to “get”, it took me all of 5 minutes to “get” Friendfeed (which just announced a 5M dollar round of funding).  Anyway, the service is a bit mindblowing in as much as that you can basically have conversations *with* friends about things you share.  That description sounds underwhelming until you ask it to automatically broadcast things you want to share — Twitters, Blog postings, and almost anything with an RSS feed — and what you get is one long river of combined updates (you and your friends), with the ability to comment and have a conversation on any one of those “activities”.

Think of it like Twitter, except that it can pull in online activities automatically (that you choose), and there are opportunities to create nested comments for each activity that is broadcast.  In an odd way, its like having a better, more automated, more accurately annotated version of Twitter, although the emphasis on adding bare comments to your stream (which has no character limit) seems to be the difference so far (this is having played with it for 5 minutes).

Its one of those things you have to try, and since they’ve added the “add friend” function, which allows you to scour your email lists for people who are already *on* Friendfeed, it becomes a slam dunk.

Add me, and let’s try this conversation together. :)

More

• Louis Gray has been stalking Friendfeed for months
• Eric Eldon has an ongoing love affair with Friendfeed, and gives some Facebook-perspective
• Robert Scoble has finally jumped in (which is like the signal for other early adopters, I’m sure)
• Jason Kaneshiro puts in his three cents
• Erick Schonfield gives a review, and the Google-y backstory behind Friendfeed