The most boring site on the planet, FriendFeed has a new
beta redesign, which is still mighty sucky, but it has added the most important feature in the history of social networks, Fake Following, which TechCrunch
describes as a "seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they're following their friends without actually getting their updates." More like this, please.
I actually installed movable type to get that functionality, only to find that the MT activity stream doesn't play nice with, e.g., tumblr. But so you can strip the chrome off the FF badge, and aside from some clunky wording, it can look decent.
Not to mention it can port to my facebook home page, thus putting it in front of the eyeballs of what few people might actually care about it.
"fake following" : are we really applauding a fresh new way to use the internet to be a little more weaselly? Isn't this just postponing the in-person awkward?
are we really applauding a fresh new way to use the internet to be a little more weaselly?
No, we're fighting weaselly with weaselly.