The Perfect Friend may already be here. I believe it suffers from the do everything for everyone mentality that bloats the Redmonsters product. I have always been a multi-tasker, and I have long had multiple blogs on multiple topics.
The way I think friendfeed should work, is, as a new user, you should be prompted to add your feeds. Once you have a coherent feed, then look for your friends. But by default channels be you + friends or just you. Chances are, the friends you find (at this time) will be power users that do it in excess, and that can be intimidating to someone that just wants to combine his facebook status and diggs into an easy RSS feed. Can a for dummies book be requested? Can you get that vidiot professor to give away a cd-rom on it?
At the risk of sounding like a self aggrandizing sop, I think of friendfeed as my effortless way of creating my own personal version of daVinci's notebooks. An easier analogy may be how Dracula the novel is arranged. Thats what friendfeed does for me. It pulls everything from my disparate sources and puts them in a one stop shop. sometimes I will come up with a revolutionary and clever something, and I will send out a twitter one shot, refer to it in Facebook Note then clarify direct to Friendfeed, as comments. such that FF is the only place you need to go, IF you actually want to know what I am talking about.
I am not out to change the world. I hate proselytizing to others about how I think they should do things or how things are. So I create my metaphorical mountaintop, and let seekers come to me for the answers. If they know how.
Incidentally, I have my ff rss feed shipping out to another twitter account that I never post directly, well, I do, but only when I want the seekers to have a bit more info than my standard run of the mill followers.
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