Lifestream services, it’s time to refactor
FriendFeed announced that they are opening the doors to everyone today. They lead the pack, with a more refined experience than Iminta, Plaxo Pulse, Spokeo, Profilactic, Second Brain, etc. But they still fundamentally suck.
The current standard for these feeds is reverse chronological order, with all the content lumped together, as if everything is equally important. Services need to investigate context-sensitive display mechanisms that enable users to zero in on content of interest .
Ultimately, this race will go to whoever most elegantly allows users to ignore 90% of the data at any given time.
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