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I’m really liking FriendFeed. I think it has great potential. I have some thoughts on what I’d like to see added or changed. Excuse my scribbles, but it was the fastest way to get my point across (hopefully)….

My first complaint is that I don’t like how things continually “bubble” to the top because somebody’s “liked” something or made a comment. I also really don’t like the same item showing up again and again, especially when I didn’t care about it in the first place. I know I can hide stuff I don’t like, but why is the default behavior to assume that I like everything?? Instead, split the display and keep items that I’m monitoring on the right.

Anything I’ve marked that’s been liked or commented on shows up on my “monitor” list…otherwise it doesn’t. On the left, show me something similar to Google Reader with header information showing the service (i.e. Flickr, Digg, Blog) the user and the title. Allow me to burn through the list using Google Reader style keyboard shortcuts. Once I’ve “read” an item. Then don’t bubble it back up to me…ever. This way, when I come back after many hours, I know exactly what I’ve seen and what I haven’t seen yet.

My next idea is much bigger in my opinion. When I view one of these items, I want to see something like this…

If it’s a blog post, pull the RSS content through and let me read it right there. Let me comment right there. If it’s Flickr, show me the full picture inline. You get the idea. Don’t make me dig to get to the content.

Essentially, I would like to see FriendFeed turned into a social media reader/interaction-conversational application. Think, Google Reader + FriendFeed.

Now, I realize that some of this is easier said than done. There’s really no technical barrier to what I’m proposing though.

What do you think?

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