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Gary Denness — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:48:05 -0000

The one thing FriendBinder does do properly is display contacts Flickr upload updates. Spokeo is just too tacky to look at and FriendFeed requires you to add every Flickr contact as an Imaginary Friend.

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Richard Cunningham — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:38:30 -0000

Thanks for reviewing our site Louis! some points:

If you click on friends at the top you will see a link called "show members" which will show who out of your friends are currently members of FriendBinder if you go into them, you might see some networks that they are on that you didn't know about.

You can also filter the types of information you receive on a network, for example you can avoid replies to others on twitter or videos favorited by friends on youtube if you are going to see this somewhere else anyway or are not interested. (this on the network page under settings)

Viewing all the stream data without the interest levels as an option is high up the todo list.

We've got lots of ideas and we are hoping to get some users on the core service and make that work really well before adding in loads of features. That said, we want to do interaction where the information goes back to the originating network so all your friends see it, i.e. twitter posting, del.icio.us posting, favourites on flickr and so on.

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charlieanzman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:05:30 -0000

Kindly sent me an invite. You have already succeeded in taking up all of my free time :)

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Frederic Lardinois — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:57:00 -0000

Good review Louis - In their defense, the FriendBinder guys left me a comment on my review and talked about that adding Twitter post-back would be an easy addition and that it was an oversight on their part that displaying items from all your friends isn't an option.

It still seems that they have a very long uphill battle to climb against their competition - right now, FriendBinder is simply too basic.

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LLiu — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:53:46 -0000

Yeah, this is all basically Usenet 3.0 and Forums 2.0 for the most part. Still, it's progress. :-)

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Louis Gray — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:52:30 -0000

My opinions on FriendFeed and Twitter have already been made known more than a few times, so I won't do that here. But saying that you're sick and tired of people discussing the two services is akin to saying you're tired of hearing about Microsoft and Apple or Google in this space. This article was not about FriendFeed. It was about FriendBinder, which is an interesting new entrant. But to talk about it and do so as if FriendFeed didn't exist as a competitor would be very silly.

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Steven Finch — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:02:22 -0000

Im really getting sick and tired about everyone talking only about FriendFeed and Twitter. FriendFeed is a simple concept done well. Nothing more and nothing less. Twitter, is just a condenced chat room. Nothing more nothing less.

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Joe Dawson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:55:23 -0000

I agree without the conversation it would just be like an rss reader!

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felix — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:41:18 -0000

I definitely agree that Friendfeed's key ingredient is the secondary engagement it provides - simply having a stream of content is much less interesting to me.