The one business that has most gotten my attention, other than Qik.com, so far this year is FriendFeed. They are growing very quickly, 25% every few days.
Today I was fortunate to meet up with co-founder Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit. If you don’t read these two guys’ blogs (here’s Paul’s and here’s Bret’s), you really should, they have written a ton of stuff that entrepreneurs should read.
It’s long, 46 minutes or so, but today I visited FriendFeed’s offices and met up with their team, which includes some of the original authors of Google Maps and Google Gmail, who left Google to start FriendFeed. We cover a LOT of ground.
We learned a lot (there were people asking questions on my cell phone thanks to Qik) and we learned that they are attempting to build a new, scalable, culture.
At 2:57 we cover what FriendFeed is, that’s really where the interview starts getting interesting.
What do you think? Does your opinion of FriendFeed change after getting a chance to spend some time with Bret and Paul?
The first video ends abruptly when the 3G disappeared, we restarted the phone and finished off the interview here.
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I just registered Friendfeed and the feature is actually simple. Great job by the team.
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I just registered Friendfeed and the feature is actually simple. Great job by the team.
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Yep, huge thumbs up from me for FriendFeed – I recently quit facebook and set FriendFeed as my home page. And that’s not an April Fool’s joke.
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Yep, huge thumbs up from me for FriendFeed – I recently quit facebook and set FriendFeed as my home page. And that’s not an April Fool’s joke.
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very interesting read….FriendFeed is the Twitter of 2008…they are moving at a fast pace on the road to Success…good luck!
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very interesting read….FriendFeed is the Twitter of 2008…they are moving at a fast pace on the road to Success…good luck!
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I’m a huge FriendFeed fan as well. Aggregating all that data in one feed is awesome. Which reminds me, I need to go install the new FriendFeed plugin for WordPress. Thanks for sharing that post on Google Reader!
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I’m a huge FriendFeed fan as well. Aggregating all that data in one feed is awesome. Which reminds me, I need to go install the new FriendFeed plugin for WordPress. Thanks for sharing that post on Google Reader!
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Have you produced a video (similar to the one you did for how you use Google Reader) that shows how you use FriendFeed
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Have you produced a video (similar to the one you did for how you use Google Reader) that shows how you use FriendFeed
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Chris: not yet. I will do one soon, though.
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Chris: not yet. I will do one soon, though.
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