Comments on: FeadEachOther.com = Facebook + Bloglines

By: Udi

Udi — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:20:21 +0000

Hey Garrick,

This service is only a couple of days old and we were not expecting all the traffic that Read/Write Web through at us. There was only a few minutes of downtime last night and things are working fine now.

Thanks!
Udi

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:15:54 +0000

dav3, that’s the issue I’ve seen w/ all these existing systems. The Power Laws they bias aren’t ones that increase relevance.

By: dav3

dav3 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:20:14 +0000

isn’t there a power law argument to have here? all these apps to tell you what everyone else is reading and to push you toward new content and whatnot… seems like all it’ll do is single out the [perceived] ‘good things’ at the expense of the fringe.

seriously, what’s wrong with a firehose when everyone gets a drink? and they bring their own cups, sized to their liking.

i get your points, obvs, i’m just bringing this up because i never see anyone talk about it. maybe i missed the memo and power laws aren’t cool anymore. fair enough.

By: aaron mentele

aaron mentele — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:36:10 +0000

for the record, sharing and discovery are different things to me.

By: aaron mentele

aaron mentele — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:43:43 +0000

I’m still not convinced daily reading is a social experience. I like my discovery separate from my consumption.

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:00:43 +0000

Ed, you’ve got a great point. There’s a certain point where the recommendation is just more noise (the new definition of advertising?)

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:47:26 +0000

I think companies focusing on how to discover new feeds are going to fail. The battle is going to be over how to make it easy for people to consume the content they already know they like.