ReadWriteWeb totally nails conversation fragmentation - FriendFeed the huge beneficiary
I hate echoing big ‘Web 2.0′ stories on this blog as they inevitably get overprocessed everywhere else - I use Twitter for my 2 cents on these types of stories if I have to, but Twitter’s down right now
Read/WriteWeb anoints FriendFeed king of the future web - using it to centralise all the conversations sparked by their posts - and nails Disqus and Twitter in one fell swoop. If other sites follow suit - and this is indeed quite a compelling course of action - this is pretty unfortunate news for Fred Wilson and the other good folk at Union Square Ventures, who have put a fair bit of money into the latter two.
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