It's been just a couple of days after I posted my epiphany regarding FriendFeed. I've noticed that I've spent more and more time in the system, and it's starting to take the place of TechMeme and Digg, to a certain extent, for me. Whether it's a commentary on how astute the folks I chat with online are in spotting important upcoming news stories, or the speed at which the FriendFeed system updates the myriad of RSS feeds it indexes, I'm able to catch the news there before it shows up in any of the hundreds of blog and news feeds I monitor or any of the other memetrackers I regularly read.
Just like any young online community, there is a share of drama and insider baseball going on within the system. The community of FriendFeed is still tight knit enough that the developers and employees of the system are easily accessible, and I regularly see one or two of their comments show up on the various items I read on a daily basis, small enough that I am aware that the FriendFeeders are all on vacation today:
[img src="http://friendfeed.com/static/images/icons/internal.png?v=99bf8708c13e43d1fbaf614404fe1314" caption="" credit="" alt="FriendFeed"] Bret Taylor (friend of Louis Gray) posted a message on FriendFeed
"At the FriendFeed ski trip in Tahoe!"
A few minutes after the notice of the Tahoe trip showed up on my FriendFeed radar, some complaints began to surface that the PR folks had finally invaded around 3:55 AM last night, and discussion quickly ensued on the best way to eliminate the potential invasion of spam into the system (as it turns out, there was only one purported PR person).
By lunchtime today, much to my surprise, they've come up with and implemented a solution at FriendFeed - comment moderation is now available. For any item generated by you or by one of your feeds, you now have permissions to delete any comment branching off those items.