Without a doubt the topic du jour in tech and social media circles today is Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed.  I won’t go into the details of what organisational changes are expected to occur within both camps since Techmeme is already buzzing with discussion on the matter.  What I will say is I am not happy about the news, and if a recent post by Mashable is any indication, I’m not the only one:
“Unusually for an acquisition announcement, around 50% of comments on the official FriendFeed announcement of the deal are negative, …

Gina Minks recently created a CCK09 discussion group in FriendFeed. Inevitably this will become one of many different locations where students of the course meet to share, discuss and debate different aspects of the course, however I’m particularly looking forward to seeing what unfolds here since FriendFeed is not a tool I’ve really used in the past. I’ve known about it for some time, but never really thought much of it since I’ve been replicating its functionality elsewhere using a variety of other tools.
It’s an open group and …

Gina Minks and I have been having an ongoing discussion this evening about FriendFeed versus Facebook and it’s re-ignited an old train of thought that I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
By and large the bulk of the online conversations I engage in these days take place on Twitter.  Sure I blog, and I post comments elsewhere, but these tend to be fairly one-off threads.  I’ll write a post here and perhaps receive a comment or two in response every once in a while, but there is rarely many-to-many …

According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, this week’s Twitter controversy involving the deactivation of the Reply feature is resulting in people moving to FriendFeed.
“So why aren’t people screaming about the feature being gone? Because this time, they’re just heading over to Friendfeed to have those very same conversations. Friendfeed for most users was just a place to bookmarks all their activities on other social networks. Now, more and more, it’s a place that people start conversations. The early adopters got that a while ago. Now, the not so early adopters …

There’s been a lot of discussion in the tech sector recently – most notably depicted on TechMeme – regarding the concept of Internet “noise.”
Robert Scoble is among those who argue the noise is incredibly valuable and should be embraced. His logic is to the effect that mainstream media (MSM) sites – and even aggregated collections of MSM sites, such as those appearing on Google News – focus on conveying polished, easily digested sources of information which are designed for quick consumption, but are not wholly representative of the complexities …