Twhirl Integrates Friendfeed: The Chaos Begins
Twhirl has incorporated Friendfeed into their client! Twhirl’s latest upgrade here. Just this morning, I wrote an article suggesting that the Friendfeed AIR app Alert Thingy should stay in its own lane and NOT try to directly compete with Twhirl by adding a host of features that cater to users of Twitter. I noted...
Alert Thingy Should Stay In Its Own Lane
Sarah Perez recently wrote a solid article reviewing the updates of Alert Thingy, an AIR app for Friendfeed. What made the article so interesting for me were her suggestions of what Alert Thingy should integrate in their future releases. The features she requested are being echoed loudly throughout the Friendfeed community, especially amongst those...
Facebook Is No Threat To Friendfeed
A tweet by Lee Sherman just noted the following: Facebook’s lifestream is a real threat to FriendFeed. It’s easy to add web services, much harder to recreate the social graph everywhere. However, I’d have to disagree with Sherman for three reasons: demographics, different uses, and a closed community. Different Uses Due to the demographics of...
Feedalizr A Friendfeed AIR App Before Alert Thingy
As it turns out, Alert Thingy was NOT the first Friendfeed Adobe AIR application. Sorry to break your hearts! Feedalizr, another Friendfeed Adobe AIR app, was in the space first! It was released on April 11th, beating Alert Thingy by 2 days! However, it doesn’t fair much better than Alert Thingy. There aren’t any customization...
Alert Thingy Desktop App Wasn’t Worth The Wait
A few days ago, Sobees released their Friendfeed desktop app (bTittleTattle) and there were many complaints and suggestions for the app. However, everyone was still holding their breath for Alert Thingy, a Friendfeed desktop app with an interface similar to Twhirl. When it previewed on TechCrunch, the most obvious reason for the hold out seemed...
