Ok, this is too much:<p>"It makes me wonder why Microsoft, with all their resources, can't move like this (They used to???) and, instead, still be looking at spending a rediculous amount of money on Yahoo."<p>Um...i think the answer is in that sentence. It's "all their resources" that keep them moving at that pace. Stakeholders take time guys!<p>Second! How has FriendFeed done this PR second-coming? Well, they hit the needs of early adopters right between the eyes! Can they sustain this interest? Good lord no! iPhones, Facebooks, (maybe even) Twitters all have some level of appeal to the mass market. FriendFeed is built on the data glut that confronts those who have too many networks (read: early adopters.) Science would call this a "false positive."<p>FriendFeed is a symptom that indicates the general problem. Social Networks aren't 100% ready for prime-time, and as we take one step closer with each new network we have to deal with the hiccups of having friends (and ourselves) on different networks. FriendFeed is a band-aid that corrects this, when Social Networks reach some sort of bankable state there will be no need for this work-around. (That's what this is: a work-around.)<p>Sorry for the long comment, but personally I'm exhausted from filtering through the blog noise on FriendFeed. Yes, I'm sure this is flame-bait to some extent, but I needed to call FF on it's shit at least once.<p>Poke holes in everything I write, I'll debate with all comers.