Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit confirms no more features coming to Friendfeed!

October 21, 2009 Jim Connolly
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Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last.  This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded.

Here’s what Buchheit just told me, in full:

Jim, there may be a few new things, but as I said, the team is mainly working on fb platform and openness, so it’s unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff (except maybe one that I’ve been thinking about for a while…).

So, whilst reports of Friendfeed’s imminent death seem to be premature, Buchheit’s message suggests that the platform is no longer being actively developed.

This news is of little surprise, coming just weeks after Friendfeed was acquired by Facebook in a multimillion dollar buy-out.

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16 Responses to Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit confirms no more features coming to Friendfeed!
  1. David Spinks
    October 21, 2009 | 8:33 pm

    FB just wanted the staff I guess RT @jimconnolly: @DavidSpinks See this David? No more features coming to Friendfeed http://bit.ly/1mcTMj

  2. Mark Essel
    October 21, 2009 | 8:03 pm

    I mentioned it on your friendfeed share Jim, but I think bringing in revenue could change the direction of resource funneling: http://bit.ly/3Qer81

    There’s nothing wrong with tasteful personalized, user optional ads.

    • Jim Connolly
      October 21, 2009 | 8:06 pm

      Maybe for other platforms, but these guys are now amazingly wealthy after their multimillion dollar sell out to Facebook.

      Can’t see it making a difference; unless the mighty Zuck needs a few hundred million more :)

    • Robert Scoble
      October 21, 2009 | 8:18 pm

      FriendFeed doesn’t have enough users to make advertising bring in more than a few dollars a day. Not going to matter. Not even worth turning on.

      • Jim Connolly
        October 21, 2009 | 8:23 pm

        Hey Robert. I agree totally.

  3. Jeunhommalunet
    October 21, 2009 | 9:14 pm

    #friendfeed confirme : "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" -The Tech News Blog http://bit.ly/g3d0F + http://ff.im/afavq

  4. Richard Frisch
    October 21, 2009 | 9:28 pm

    Time to move on, Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog http://j.mp/2IFAka

  5. topsy top1k en
    October 22, 2009 | 6:50 am

    No more features coming to Friendfeed http://bit.ly/1mcTMj

  6. Yegor Gilyov
    October 22, 2009 | 6:50 am

    Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog http://ff.im/-ahnTB

  7. Michael A. Volz
    October 22, 2009 | 8:29 am

    *sigh* Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog http://bit.ly/tnKnV

  8. techandlife
    October 22, 2009 | 9:52 am

    Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog #friendfeed http://j.mp/2ZTfa1

  9. Tim Tunnicliff
    October 22, 2009 | 12:49 pm

    RT @tweetmeme Friendfeed confirms; "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features" | The Tech News Blog http://bit.ly/1mcTMj

  10. Cesare Tagliaferri
    October 22, 2009 | 3:29 pm

    Friendfeed is dead: “No more features coming to Friendfeed http://bit.ly/1mcTMj” -@thetechnewsblog

  11. Liviu Lica
    October 23, 2009 | 7:45 am

    Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit confirms no more features coming to Friendfeed! http://ff.im/-alLqh

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