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Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Andy Bakun — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:33:00 -0000

That is really the right headline for this FF feature: the fact that it's real-time for all these different sites. FF continues to be a powerful tool, well defined and eminently useful and usable.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Mike Chelen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:13:00 -0000

Sean: now some of the features that were available only through clients such as peoplebrowser can be had natively, making them more accessible to many users :)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

SandraPaul — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:32:38 -0000

Nowadays, people are getting more and more interested in real-time results instead of traditional search results. FriendFeed will surely succeed for its innovative features that help people getting more precise real-time results. However, there are strong competitors like http://aafter.com/ that also provide real-time searches from Twitter and FriendFeed has to compete with them.

Regards,
SharonHill

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Sakib — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:27 -0000

It's really awesome and thanks for the great review.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Scott Gould — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:16:39 -0000

OK - so that's insane.

FriendFeed is solidfying itself as the centre of our social profiles and even social research. Still the question for me is, what about the mass market? What will be the next social media tool to enter into the mainstream - and how do we facilitate this, as opposed to sharing content between ourselves till the cows come home...

Thoughts?
SG

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Kevin Sablan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:15 -0000

You're absolutely right. This type of search is the base upon which a storystreaming platform can be built. Though the raw feed is useful, it contains many issues that make it difficult for many to follow a story: content repetition, spam-flagging, lack of context around individual posts, etc.

Automated systems could leverage the wisdom of the crowd to try to create "stories" out of real-time search, but even Techmeme added a human editor to their team.

Social media-savvy bloggers and journalists can handle the task and create those stories in new blog posts, but that post would not reflect real-time changes.

With a smart editing and real-time publishing platform, experienced journalists with social media skills, or social media ubergeeks with journalism skills, could address some of the issues I listed above:
- Repeated content could show up as one item, and given proper prominence.
- Spam could be identified and filtered out.
- Individual posts could be visually tied to related content.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

justinlevy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:29:16 -0000

As someone that runs multiple conference series, that's a really interesting concept. We had a dashboard created that pulls in blog posts, Twitter Search and Flickr. But, with this addition you could pull in everything, you''d just need to find a way to display it nicely.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

justinlevy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:27:24 -0000

This is a really interesting update from FF. I wonder how long it will now be until Facebook releases FB search and how similar it will be to FF...

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Joe Dawson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:10:21 -0000

Friendfeed continues to add new and exciting features for the userbase, the site offers considerable value and potential with the real-time capabilities. I feel it's only a matter of time before the site experiences a real hockey stick moment in terms of its growth just shooting up!!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Ken Stewart | ChangeForge — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:00 -0000

So does this replace Google Reader?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Bob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:50:21 -0000

But if no one uses friendfeed it's all a little irrelevant no?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Brandon Mendelson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:43:04 -0000

Nice! I think there are some real interesting implications here, particularly for stories involving breaking news.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Michael Fidler — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:58 -0000

When I think about everything friendfeed has done including today; it's clear who the visionaries are of the realtime web. They just get it, and they also have the skills to pull it off. It's very impressive.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:25:22 -0000

A couple of observations:

(1) The search capabilities are not perfect. I have been unable to determine why this FriendFeed entry never showed up in the window above. But when search works, it truly works in real-time.

(2) This probably goes without saying, but the "Spanning 50+ Social Sites" in the title needs to be clarified. FriendFeed only searches the information that was input into FriendFeed. So if you enter a blog post title, all that FriendFeed knows about is the title. But if you then append portions of the post (or the entire post) as one or more comments, then FriendFeed can search that also (provided you're not using an "intitle" search or something like that). One ramification is that if you really want people to see your blog post content, and it's not critical that they go back to the original source to do so, then you should append your entire blog post as a comment - and coincidentally, FriendFeed recently expanded its commenting capabilities to allow long comments.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Louis Gray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:34 -0000

Admit it, you just wanted to leave a comment so you could see it pop up in the box. :)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Sean McBride — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:35:00 -0000

A bit heavy, indeed, but I don't know of any other real-time search service that comes close to providing the ability to navigate so much info so quickly and efficiently. Monitoring dozens of feeds on what is essentially a single screen is a breeze.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

nicefishfilms — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:00 -0000

@ sean - using Peoplebrowsr for the same thing. seems a little heavy though.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

DGentry — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:25:25 -0000

Its bizarrely recursive to be reading an article about real-time search, whilst in the middle of the article a real-time search box merrily shows people linking to and discussing the very same article on real-time search.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Sean McBride — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 -0000

Why I am using Peoplebrowsr for real-time search: I can quickly click through 16 searches with four keystrokes using the right cursor key in just a few seconds. Bam. Zap. Mainlining the net with zero friction. I like it like that.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

John Serra — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:00 -0000

Real-time search is a great feature.. Yeah!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Shane — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:00 -0000

FF FTW!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Rob Sellen :o) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:00 -0000

you lost your ego? :o/

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Louis Gray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:45:22 -0000

I don't have any more insight than you do, but I bet they take tomorrow off and have a 3-day weekend. That said, this team can code better while sleeping than most companies do while awake. So I never count them out.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

iMJR — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:44:09 -0000

Nice blog post, Louis! I see you've done your research, could this be the beginning of new updates? I mean just yesterday they added the themes. What are they going to add tomorrow?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/friendfeed-debuts-real-time-search.html

Jeroen de Miranda — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:43:58 -0000

this is another major step forward for FriendFeed; now FriendFeed can e.g. be used during conferences to track #hashtags on a realtime basis.