{"id":802,"date":"2009-05-20T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-05-20T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:36:58","slug":"google-should-acquire-friendfeed-the-leader-in-the-real-time-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/google-should-acquire-friendfeed-the-leader-in-the-real-time-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Google should acquire Friendfeed, the leader in the real time web"},"content":{"rendered":"

May is real time month: everyone is now saying the latest trend for innovation is the real time web<\/a>. Today, we hear that Larry Page, co-founder of Google, confirming to Loic Le Meur that real time search was overlooked by Google<\/a> and is now a focus for their future innovation.<\/p>\n

With all this talk of Google acquiring Twitter<\/a>, I\u201a\u00c4\u00f4m now wondering why isn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t Friendfeed seen as the best candidate to ramp up Google\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s real time potential<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friendfeed does real time better than anyone else. Facebook rules when it comes to the activity stream of a person \u201a\u00c4\u00ec meaning, tracking an individuals life and to some extent media sharing. Twitter rules for sentiment, as it’s like one massive chat room, and to some extent link sharing. But Friendfeed, quite frankly, craps all over Facebook and Twitter in real time search.<\/p>\n

Why? Three reasons:<\/p>\n

1)\tIt\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s an aggregator.<\/strong> The fundamental premise of the service is in aggregating people\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s lives and their streams. People don\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t even have to ever visit Friendfeed other than an initial sign up. Once someone confirms their data sources, Friendeed has a crawler constantly checking an individuals life stream AND that’s been validated as their own. It doesn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t rely on a person Tweeting a link, or sharing a video \u201a\u00c4\u00ec it\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s done automatically through RSS.<\/p>\n

2)\tIt\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s better suited for discovery.<\/strong> The communities for Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed are as radically different as America, Europe, and Asia are in cultures. People that use Friendfeed literally sit there discovering new content, ranking it with their \u201a\u00c4\u00falikes\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 and expanding it with their comments to items. It\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s a social media powerhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3)\tIt\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s better technology.<\/strong> Don\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t get me wrong, Facebook has an amazing team. But they don\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t have the same focus. With less people and less money \u201a\u00c4\u00ec but with a stricter focus \u201a\u00c4\u00ec Friendfeed actually has a superior product specifically when it comes to real time search. Their entire service is built around maximizing it.<\/p>\n

Up until now, I\u201a\u00c4\u00f4ve been wondering about Friendfeed’s future. It has a brilliant team rolling out features I didn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t even realise I needed or could have. But I couldn’t see the value proposition \u201a\u00c4\u00ec or rather, I don\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t have the time to get the value out of Friendfeed because I have a job that distracts me from monitoring that stream!<\/p>\n

But now it\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s clear to me that Friendfeed is a leader in the pack – a pack that’s now shaping into a key trend of innovation. And given the fact the creator of Gmail and Adsense is one of the co-founders, I couldn\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t imagine a better fit for Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friendfeed is what Google needs to beef up the real time web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[149,156,169,219,293,359,373,392],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-internet","tag-facebook","tag-friendfeed","tag-google","tag-loic-le-meur","tag-real-time-web","tag-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}