- IF: What’s your plan for how FriendFeed will relate to the social networks, like Facebook?
- BT: Most of our users are Facebook users, but they don’t view FriendFeed as competing with their Facebook experience. Facebook is more about socializing and sharing your changing relationship status, etc. FriendFeed is 100% focused on content and content discovery. We want to work with all the social networks’ APIs, but you’ll probably never use FriendFeed to find a date.
- IF: How do you think about FriendFeed in the context of Facebook’s News Feed?
- BT: Facebook has a lot of challenges right now keeping the News Feed from becoming too spammy, because a lot of apps are using it as a distribution channel. It’s probably the right call to be a little more cautious at this point, but I wouldn’t presume to know the problems that Facebook is solving for with the News Feed. With time, FriendFeed content will become more divergent from News Feed content. We’re totally focused on content discovery - some bloggers are already telling us that we’re their #2 traffic source to Google.
April 09, 2008, 10:40am
