As much as I’ve tried to like Friendfeed, it just hasn’t stuck. Given many of the social media digerati love it, I thought maybe there was something about Friend that I wasn’t getting.
But if you look at Compete.com, it looks like Friendfeed may have stalled with the number of unique visitors plateauing at about 500,000 over the past three months after a spectacular first half of the year when it was all the rage. (See the chart below)
Now, 500K unique visitors is damn good but you do wonder if there’s a limited audience for a tool that lets you keep digital tabs on other people playing with a variety of digital tools and toys.
For a service described as “this year’s Twitter”, Friendfeed is has gone from red-shot to lukewarm in the past few months. It’s also made some curious moves, highlighted by the launch of a feature that let you copy of all of your Friendfeed posts to Twitter.
It didn’t make a lot of sense because it created a huge echo chamber. Not surprisingly, Friendfeed quickly revised the feature earlier this week.
I don’t know why Friendfeed hasn’t resonated with me. Maybe it’s because there aren’t many people who want to see all of their digital activity. I love Twitter, live in my inbox (and GMail) and spend a healthy amount of time in Google Reader. I just don’t have the time for another digital tool.
What I’m really keen about there days is tools to filter information. I really like Filtrbox and see some potential with DailyMe. I want to synthesize my digital rather than turn up the volume enough louder.
