Yesterday we added Technorati and Alexa data to Louis Gray's FriendFeed list. Here's a roundup of what several bloggers on the list have to say about FriendFeed:

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FriendFeed "Launches"

Ok, point taken. There are too many activity feed aggregators out there. So now we have FriendFeedFeed, to "Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!" Awesome.

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FriendFeed Raises $5 Million, Now Open to Everyone

FriendFeed is still very much a work in progress. There is no search box (coming), there is no mobile version (coming), and there is no way to group or organize feeds other than chronologically...Yet there is something pure about FriendFeed that I hope does not get lost as more people (and features) join.

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FriendFeed gets interesting

I love my FriendFeed...Why do I love it? It's one place you can find all my stuff and, even, comment on it.

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FriendFeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly

I've been using FriendFeed religiously this year, after reviewing it in detail last month, and I've been consistently impressed.

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Loving My FriendFeed

...it's competitive with things like: Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku and Pownce. And it's simple and minimalist like Twitter, yet it fully embraces everything else out there that has a feed
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I love to see this stuff finally take root so virally.

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Getting a FriendFeed new friend every minute or so!

Do you think FriendFeed is getting traction? Here is mine.

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FriendFeed Launces, Provides New Lightweight Social Activity. Needs API

FriendFeed is, in a way, attempting to join together the loosely coupled bits of social "exhaust" I produce on the web. And at the same time, they've created another new source of activity that I'd like to pull back onto my own web site. Once the FriendFeed API is out, a whole bunch of interesting stuff is bound to happen.

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FriendFeed Appeals to the A-List and the Entire Alphabet-List

The consensus is that FriendFeed is fun and definitely makes it easier and by far, more elegant, as a way of keeping a "pulse" on your network. The one thing that I need though is the ability to link directly to a "reply" option
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Lifestreams are not going anywhere but the mainstream.

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Would you hammer a nail with a shovel?

Like anything else it is all in how you used the tools that makes the difference...using FriendFeed means getting involved for a period longer than your coffee break. It means figuring out which of all those friend requests coming in are best suited for making your participation the most effective.

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FriendFeed and the stalkerati

We're in a world where...practicing transparency sometimes feels like a weird blend of the global village and an endless rout of self promotion. And a bit like stalkerati rule, too. Or, at least that's how felt when I read Louis Gray's post reporting on which A list bloggers are public on friendfeed, allowing others to watch their every click and post on their blogs, tweets, facebook and like 30 other social media apps.
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On a different note, I was irked that Gray's A list of thirty-plus has just two women; on other hands, it's really a list of bloggers he reads, it's really no big deal

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Again: Why I Like FriendFeed

So here's why I continue to like FriendFeed:

The site is easy to use once set up ...
The comments - which I believe are a killer feature ...
FriendFeed is solid and fast ...
Interesting additional features ...
It's sticky ...

Now what's bad?

(read the whole post!)

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From Geocities to Friend Feeds: The (de?)evolution of self-expression and stalking on the Internet

I'm still not sure why/if I need FriendFeed...nor if I plan to use it in the future...but at least I'm not judging from afar this time
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There are times when I feel technology evolution is outpacing humanity's ability to absorb, react, and evolve as a society. We are probably closer to being "one world" than ever before, yet we are also probably closer to being "six billion individuals" than ever before.

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How did FriendFeed suddenly become controversial?

The real power of FriendFeed, as Steven Hodson points out in one of his signature cranky rants, is in the discussions it facilitates. It’s about participation, not just passive consumption. It is not just a place where you can find stuff - it’s a place to discuss that stuff with your friends.

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Positive Interference

If I'm feeding my updates to a site such as Pulse or FriendFeed, I would rather be able to keep the conversation threads all together on my site or at least tie them together with something like a trackback to pull in threads if the discussion jumps over to another venue. The way Pulse and FriendFeed are built, your readers can never know what additional discussion is taking place which makes it an open loop of dis-jointed conversations that may never come together.

(Note: Ian Kennedy is Product Manager for MyBlogLog, part of Yahoo. As he notes in the post, they are close to releasing a "lifestreaming" feature.)

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Louis Gray Is The Culprit

There have been quite a few tweets, discussions, and blog posts about the influx of FriendFeed friend requests and subscriptions, not to mention a host of new users joining the service.
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So now you know who to thank (or blame)...