Who Else Is Disappointed in FriendFeed And Other Twitter Swagger Jackers?
Apr 07 2009 
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Today while scanning through Google Reader, I noticed a post by one of my favorite bloggers Sarah Perez. Sarah related how her attempt at getting an exclusive preview of the new FriendFeed redesign was a difficult experience, and a bit disappointing from a FriendFeed enthusiast’s standpoint. It’s a great post that sheds some serious light on dealing with companies outside of the “online” hype.
Read Sarah’s post here: Why I Didn’t Get To See FriendFeed’s Redesign.
Stop Swagger Jackin Twitter!
Sarah’s not the only one that’s a little disappointed in FriendFeed. I’m disappointed in the FriendFeed beta design. Wait, scratch that, I’m disappoint in FriendFeed swagger jackin Twitter’s user interface. Personally, I’m starting to feel that the “real-time update” angle was just a way to get the design to be somewhat pre-approved by FF users, while FF jacks Twitter’s style and works on making it its own.
Definitions
- Swagger jackin – v. stealing someone’s swag
- Swag – adj. a unique style or the way that something is presented
- Swagger jacker – n. see swagger jackin, swag
Can We Say Lame?
Friendfeed has a lot of great, competitive, and very creative minds working under one umbrella. I don’t see why on earth they would copy very important elements of Twitter’s design as a way to test a new one for their site. Don’t give me that bs about competing with Facebook because guess what? They’re swagger jackin Twitter too! With all those brains, that’s so unnecessary and puts FriendFeed as a company in a different light for me.
On another note, for those who will continue to jack Twitter’s style, please don’t pitch me about it. Fake artists copy. Real artists create. The same applies to the company’s that I’d love to review on SheGeeks.
Be original for goodness sakes! Don’t we already have enough Twitter clones?! How can you expect to compete when you all look the same? Mainstream users will simply stick with where they’re at.
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Looks like you're view of Twitter has threaded convos, ala FriendFeed. Is that native Twitter functionality, or a 3rd party plugin? Do you consider that Twitter swag?
Swagger Jacker lol. Nice. Word up though. I was quite underwhelmed with Friendfeed's latest updates. It does seem like they just took the “twitter has shown us the way” route rather than blaze their own trail. Their service is unique and distinct enough for them to create a more practical and suitable user experience.
So since the sites have the same logo placement and a right hand menu bar ff is stealing from twitter? Wow, it's only been the most overused UI since 2003.
Also, hint, if you have to define your terms in the context of your article, they don't work.
w00t! That's me on the screenshot! :)
While I agree that the beta FriendFeed is a little underwhelming, especially after the build-up it got from some folks, there already has been lots of swagger jackin' going on, with Facebook jackin' both Twitter (realtime status updates) and FriendFeed's (pre beta) user interface.
What's interesting to me: Twitter was fun when it launched, but wasn't taken seriously. Now Facebook and FriendFeed have decided that realtime updates are where it's at.
Should be interesting to see who jacks Twitter's swagger next.
Hmmmm agreed….. kind of.
Friendfeeds real time stuff is lame. What the heck can I do with yet another real time stream. I've got twitter, facebook, and now Friendfeed? Who can watch it all. Assuming I dump them into one place I can't reply universally yet. Also, wouldn't it be better if FF offered windowed bracketing of my streams into columns or something? Simple? Heck, they hid the freaking group, friends, and more. You can no longer answer friend requests in batch, nor crosspost as easily. Direct messages? Who asked for that? Isn't FF supposed to be an aggregation or group set up? What happened to email? Twitter? IM? And even FB? Do we really need another place we have to watch for messages? Messages likely to end up in my email anyway?
Oh well. They're rushing to nowhere it seems to me.
Friendfeeds real time stuff is lame. What the heck can I do with yet another real time stream. I've got twitter, facebook, and now Friendfeed? Who can watch it all. Assuming I dump them into one place I can't reply universally yet. Also, wouldn't it be better if FF offered windowed bracketing of my streams into columns or something? Simple? Heck, they hid the freaking group, friends, and more. You can no longer answer friend requests in batch, nor crosspost as easily. Direct messages? Who asked for that? Isn't FF supposed to be an aggregation or group set up? What happened to email? Twitter? IM? And even FB? Do we really need another place we have to watch for messages? Messages likely to end up in my email anyway?
Oh well. They're rushing to nowhere it seems to me.
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FriendFeed is kind of disappointing me too. At first they were so unique. Twitter really is shaking up things online, and changing faces on social media.
FriendFeed is kind of disappointing me too. At first they were so unique. Twitter really is shaking up things online, and changing faces on social media.