How Posterous could be the next Friendfeed
This is what Posterous already have in common with Friendfeed:
- Following/Followers (called subscriptions)
- Likes (called Favorite)
- Home stream (all subscriptions in one stream)
- Excellent Comment system (almost identical with better Twitter support! Even Facebook support...)
- Bookmarklet
- Excellent email system both for sending & recieving
- Brilliant developers!
Here is what they need to do to get more like Friendfeed:
- Better profile page (maybe separate the sidebar from it?)
- Move out links to all the important pages to the sidebar. For example a link to all our favorites, discussions, all subscriptions etc.
- Maybe make the "All subscriptions" page real-time and interactive?
- Make tags like friendfeed groups. You can already see what everybody else is posting for a specific tag. Push that even further and make that one of the main things.
Can anyone think of something else? Please post that in the comments. Just like you do on friendfeed :)
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- Move out links to all the important pages to the sidebar. For example a link to all our favorites, discussions, all subscriptions etc."
You'll be able to do this yourself once theming is available. I agree with Grey; we should be able to post to single services (and not just Posterous) from the bookmarklet. But as to your major point, I don't really view Posterous as a sort of Friendfeed, but more like a better and more social sort of Tumblr (or any other social microblog). If we want it to be like Friendfeed, the first thing would be to turn Posterous into an aggregator, which it currently isn't.
«Real time» had not been around too long in FF, had it?! Maybe I've been away from there longer than I though as everyone here seem to be so accustomed to it..
I used to have a Wordpress for a while there, but finally it felt too cumbersome for my li'l «needs»
I've read the article about FF/FB now...it feels kind of sad though..
Improved profiles/sidebar would help to promote content and allow us to present "favorite" content...from us (recent or "best" posts) and from people we follow.
Sometimes I think I want to have more theme options. A lot of the time I love the simplicity...but want better ways to display and share content more than I want themes. That is about customization...choice.
The Posterous team has been doing a great job focusing on making the user (us) experience better. That in itself is key to inspiring me (you?) to use it more.
A lot of what is being "asked for" in this comment string is what is already offered by lots of other services. Fine...some of those things are cool. Let's just keep focusing on improving the uniqueness as new/familiar features are added.
JS-Kit comments type stuff would be great.
Keep adding the cool & unique first...the me too stuff a distance second.
Nice to see a string of passionate users here.
What Posterous does well is the posting and conversation aspect, and this is the part of FriendFeed that it could replace IMO.
