It's really sad to see such a great service as FriendFeed not really taking off. As has been said, the service is probably a bit overwhelming for new users simply because of the amount of data coming in from each of your friends and rooms (even if you follow just one or two people). I also have to agree with most of the points Lewis Gray wrote about how to improve FriendFeed to open it up to new users. I especially have to agree with "FriendFeed Needs to Better Define What It Is and How People Use It". It has tons of features but every time you hear "FriendFeed", someone else mentions Twitter and a comparison starts. Even if the two of them are not really comparable, in my opinion. For example, I registered on FF soon after it went live and all I used it for was content aggregation. I knew that I could also use it for commenting on stuff and much more but never really used it that way.
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FriendFeed and new users
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Are all FriendFeed bindings outdated?
Is it just me or are most language bindings for the FriendFeed API mostly outdated? I've now looked at the official ones for Python, PHP and C# as well as two for Java and none of them offers the extended search facilities provided by the API , e.g. the domain search or the URL fetcher. The "real-time"-methods are nowhere to be seen, either. And if you want to at the missing functionality to some of the Java bindings, you end up running into the private-method-wall -_-.
So far I've only found one binding for Python (albeit not the official one) by Chris Lasher that supports at least the domain-search. (A new version of it is out now, btw. :D)
On a side-note: If you write a binding for a language, (big, big, big) please make sure that it's easy to use. It doesn't really help if a PHP binding is not in PEAR, a Java binding is in no Maven2 repository or a Python binding is not on PyPI.
