Comments on: The Rapid Rise of FriendFeed and Plaxo’s Pulse http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/ John McCrea on the emerging Social Web Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thecapacity : Amazon should participate in the OpenWeb http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-1032 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:04:06 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-1032 [...] hear a lot about this nirvana of open security and data for social sites, especially in the context of plaxo, yahoo, google, twitter and all the other [...]

]]> By: Doug http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-974 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:23:40 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-974 a long time ago (late 1990s) there was Zkey and ZCentral.

they tried the whole integrated contact/address book updating interactive model

they flopped

I should know — was an early adopter of it who was “orphaned”

]]> By: therealmccrea http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-972 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:08:20 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-972 Jim,

I don’t. That use case is not squarely in our focus. We are working hard on making Pulse rock for enriching your connection with friends, family, and coworkers, rather than on building yet-another networking tool, so we’re focused on quality of sharing rather than quantity of connecting.

It will be interesting to see over time how many people end up wanting to consume feeds from more than a 1,000 of their closest connections!

Question: how many people do you want to be able to maintain bi-directional sharing connections with? I am interested in feedback on that.

John

]]> By: Jim Turner http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-971 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:22:40 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-971 Any idea when Plaxo is going to raise the limit for the number of Pulse contacts one can have. I’m maxed out and there are 650+ folks waiting for me to confirm them, but I can’t.

Thanks.

Jim

]]> By: therealmccrea http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-969 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:40:20 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-969 Thanks, jer979. Good thoughts!

]]> By: jer979 http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-968 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:34:12 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-968 Now, if you guys allowed me to create categories beyond (Biz and Friend) like I do in Outlook or FB (say “friends interested in Japan” -since I lived there or “Technology”) and where I could use you as my default broadcast AND dialogue communication service, that would be wicked cool!

I’m a huge Plaxo fan and wish everyone used it (hate those “here’s my new email emails”) so want to see you succeed.

BTW, the new add-in that pre-populates Outlook based on an email address is SWEEEEEETTTTTTT!

]]> By: gregorylent http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-966 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:30:47 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-966 for the user, it is better if these sites remain relatively small … if you take them all the way out, comments will inevitably end up like those on youtube, the effect of the lowest common denominator.

competition for numbers is not as desirable as competition for quality, intelligence, coherence.

i know it is the american way to go for big, but ….

]]> By: Nay Sayer http://therealmccrea.com/2008/08/08/the-rapid-rise-of-friendfeed-and-plaxos-pulse/#comment-965 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:41:01 +0000 http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/?p=258#comment-965 John, every time you post you talk about Plaxo being the first social aggregator (“a year ago that Plaxo launched Pulse, the first Social Web Aggregator”) despite the fact that mugshot and profilactic beat you there by like, a year.

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