The Steve Rubel Lifestream

Aggregation is key. Let's say you post a blog post, it gets commented on, retweeted, tweeted about, blogged about; Friendfeeds needs a way of aggregating all those different points of discussion into one coherent stream as well as letting new content from new users 'bubble up' into the mix.

I am confident that the posterous team will deliver these (+more), and also that posterous will continue to take off like a rocket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLkdmeUaeco

:D nmw

The problem with FriendFeed is that it forced us to have a comment area underneath EVERY item, which made the UI complex, especially when compared to Twitter, and made the noise level go way up.

The other problem is that the search on FriendFeed, while world's better than Twitter, didn't go far enough. It was almost there.

The other problem with FriendFeed is that we couldn't build a personal brand there. Until after Facebook bought it, we couldn't even put a picture on our own page. Even Twitter lets us do this and it's a key feature for why businesses and celebrities took to Twitter.

I see a potential for a new kind of curation app. Posterous isn't it. Posterous isn't an aggregator, either, and it's not a place where I can have a conversation with a community the way that I can on Twitter and/or FriendFeed. But it is nice for doing something that looks a lot to me like a blog.

@Robert as more users sign up for Posterous I found their reader to become a great source of valuable content - though it's not the solution you're seeking. http://posterous.com/reader/

You prefer the "river" of items, tweets, blog posts, photos, videos to just stream down and you can pick out the ones you like to send to your own spaces across the internet and add your own information too. You can afford to do that, you have the time.

I don't have the time to sit and watch a stream hoping to find something interesting, rather, I want to see what's happened and what the important and interesting items are. In a way, you could say I rely on users like yourself to pick out interesting items that I mix with other users to create a filtered and aggregated stream.

1. It's a blog, so unlike FriendFeed I can reproduce whatever community features Posterous has in case of acquisition with Wordpress, etc.

2. Between autopost and Posterous' API, it's not hard to get content out of the service -- should we need to.

While I wouldn't call Posterous a lifestream (sorry, Steve), email posting makes it + Instapaper on the phone the closest thing to Robert's curation system I know. For a blog, anyway.

Hopefully, some of those Friendfeed engineers can make Facebook a little less clunky - too many errors these days. Plus my mother-in-law just joined.

While there remains a place for both 140 character microblogging and 1000+ word [macro]blogging, I believe there is a middle ground that sites like Tumblr and Posterous fill: miniblogging. That is, those ~500 word "incomplete thoughts" that are better shared than kept secret but which are too big for a tweet and too small for a full fledged article.

Sam

I really like Posterous, as although I have self hosted blogs, it's just so easy to forward emails I get to it, and then get them to autopost forward to my own blogs too. OK, it's a lazy way to blog, but so what? It saves time too, and I can always edit before or after posting.

I don't use FriendFeed as much as I used to lately, but that's as much as being busier lately, and having less time, than anything else.

so far, a true holistic communication service has not been invented

This interests me specifically with regard to "Government 2.0" because many government agencies block URLs like Twitter.com, Facebook.com, and so forth. Here's a way that in theory people could produce online content in near-real-time from their official emails and MS Outlook (which is typically what's used). No doubt this is applicable to Edelman clients and many other large companies.

I am a huge fan of Friendfeed and now Posterous. I joined Posterous last year, but didn't use it much until they adding the uber-simple auto-posting features...wow, so awesome!

So really, Friendfeed is a massive aggregator and Posterous is a massive blaster (broadcaster) of information - feeds other feeds, interesting to say the least.

I've been tempted to do what Steve has done, i.e. abandon my self-hosted WP blog, and use only Posterous, but I think it's lacking the ability to tie in other services I'd like to use. So I would be loosing some cool blog features / functionality, but gaining tons of ease and simpification of blog admin (plus, posterous is free - for now, anyway). A provactive argument here.

I think Posterous is disruptive and highly valuable as the layman can easily understand and quickly make use of it's features vs. complicated blog admin.

As for blogging, when I started with Posterous, I thought it might end up replacing my main blog (http://thespacehelmetshow.blogspot.com). But it now occupies a niche of its own among my blogs: It now complements my main blog; it's for the shorter entries I write (I post my longer entries on my main blog now), and it's easy to share articles, pictures, music, and videos using the bookmarklet. So my Posterous blog has found its place in my Internet presence. And yes, for me it's mainly a blog platform intermediate between Twitter and Blogger.

I find that posterous has made blogging fun again. A true "lifestream" if you want to use Steve's terminology :)

FriendFeed had massive potential, but I agree that it was mostly still too much work/too cumbersome to get it to work for meaningful use cases. It's like their team somehow forgot about deciding what FF was really supposed to for...

FF Search is very powerful and has pointed in the right direction for all to follow (missing mainly only time-based search operators), and even now is still the best way to archive your and your core "Following" (i.e. those that got onto FF and/or you hand imported) Twitter stream, the only fly in the ointment is the idea that it could all be turned off someday (let's hope that never happens).

And the trouble with Friendfeed: not enough Scobles. The earlier adopters are cliquey, basically ruining the essence of Friendfeed while perpetrating that their contributions are making Freindfeed great. I've done a lot of listening, though, and only a pioneering few like @Robert will actually engage and truly network. Others are just publicly acting like middle schoolers. Which is like so last decade.

So @Dan Perlman, No Need for FF.

@scobelizer, i'd say its only a matter of time before Posterous/Tumblr fully replace FF... the content producers LIKE YOURSELF are migrating.

see also http://past.blog.com/gaggle-info-wiki/miscellaneous/articles/wisdom-of-the-language