Friendfeed an insect in the path of a Goliath

Facebook: social network, global communication and identity management platform.

Friendfeed: lifestreaming and social graph facilitator for the new web-generation.

Facebook and Friendfeed provide the tools and environment to aggregate your pictures, messages, comments, blogs and sound files.

Friendfeed allows you to merge the many web services you already use and integrate them into one lifestream. Facebook allows the same and the opportunity to keep them all in one place, on one platform and under one username and password.

So you probably disagree with me and that’s okay but you would be wrong Friendfeed is a highly specialised tool that is just one subset of Facebook and like many specialised tools in all walks of life it is not going to be used by the majority. The majority are happy with MySpace, Facebook et al.

Tell me what is the difference between this image of Facebooks mini-feed and Friendfeed?

So I guess what I am really trying to say is what is so wicked about Friendfeed? And if you are in the camp that thinks Friendfeed is so ‘awesome’ Louis I am directing this one at you then what is so compelling that you think its the next big thing and regular users will leave Facebook/MySpace for it… Or am I wrong in this too?