You can now share files on FriendFeed

A cool feature poorly communicated. Perhaps one of the reasons FriendFeed has struggled to get over the early-adopter hump is because their mar-com has a few holes.<p>Not to discredit any hard work but I think FF should consider how this file sharing implementation is any better and/or more efficient than email, and call out those benefits to the end user. I love new technology but this blog post does not get me the least bit excited. What attracts me about FF's offering is the ease of which it is to share files across a (very wide) social graph.<p>But to the average user, the screenshot they include on their blog looks like your run of the mill email client. And to make matters worse, the two privacy locks by either name suggests anything but social.<p><a href="http://images.colinanawaty.com/screenshots/a1c3721e8310e9e803963eab3609bfc0.png" rel="nofollow">http://images.colinanawaty.com/screenshots/a1c3721e8310e9e80...</a><p>My 2cents.

Heh, not to fawn all over a YC alum, but I use Dropbox for all my friend-file-sharing. Just pop it into the public folder, get the url, pass that out via whatever.<p>Maybe FF's is easier, but Dropbox has made it simple enough that it's not worth it for me to play with other solutions.

Here's the TechCrunch story: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/friendfeed-adds-file-sharing-no-movies-but-mp3s-are-fine/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/friendfeed-adds-file-sh...</a>

Has anyone seen the Maximum file size or any other limitations anywhere on the FrienFeed site? Or is that something not important enough to mention???

Agreed: this could be pitched in a similar fashion that Basecamp Journal / PBWorks (wiki?) / and even Yammer are -- more streamlined communication and possibly the value of ambient informational awareness.

reminds me a lot of pownce's files implementation. anyone else feel the same way?