Is it just me, or was this a real nothing of an article? I'm pretty sure it's not just me. Basically, it's explaining how FriendFeed works and pretending like

Is it just me, or was this a real nothing of an article? I'm pretty sure it's not just me. Basically, it's explaining how FriendFeed works and pretending like that means he's making a decent point. Really, his only slightly interesting quote is this one - "Sooner or later the 'Internet’s middleman' must emerge." - and he's wrong about that. Reason being, most people don't obsess over the Internet like that. Most people manage one or two sites, and as the Internet gets bigger that'll change to three or four, five if they're feeling ambitious. Because beyond "put stuff online" and "communicate with people," there's no reason to use the Internet. And some people care about using Flickr and Vimeo and Twitter and Tumblr and staying connected in every network at once because they like pretending they'll be John Gruber one day... but the average Internet user uses one application for each of those two things, and those two things are Facebook and Facebook. I think that we as hackers ought to spend a lot of time outside the narrow bubble of people who are as neurotic as we are. It helps to give a LOT of perspective.