Since FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook last summer, there has not only been a large exodus of users from the site, but also an increasing volume of pronouncements that FriendFeed, if not already dead yet, is in fact dying rapidly. The major outage last week sent TechCrunch into a near-orgasmic state of proclaiming that, not only was FriendFeed dead, but that no one cared.
As a matter of fact, people do care whether FriendFeed lives or dies, and it is to serve that community of brilliant, innovative individuals that I created the site, Is FriendFeed dead yet?. Using a patent-pending “death checker” algorithm, plus some math, I am able to determine with a high degree of certainty whether or not FriendFeed is still alive. Now, with this site, you do not even need to visit FriendFeed.com to determine if it’s dead yet—you can do this entirely from my site.
Let me know if you’d like to donate to support its continued development.
Yahoo! Tech represented an important milestone, not only in my personal career, but also in the history of Yahoo! At the time it was launched (April, 2006), it was the first new property launched by the Yahoo! Media group in over five years. It was one of Yahoo!’s first forays into original content, and one of the first Yahoo! sites where video (the online show Hook Me Up) was a primary factor. It was one of the first, if not the first, sites at Yahoo! to rely primarily upon original content (bloggers) rather than aggregating content that was created elsewhere. And, it was considered very “cutting edge” in its design and frontend features—the rounded corners and bold colors (green and orange? seriously?) were very much in vogue at the time (an early review called it “an explosion in the web 2.0 factory”) and a wild change from the traditional Yahoo! designs. See the 