Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick has an insightful post over at ReadWriteWeb about yesterday's big news in the photo sharing world, Flickr co-founders Stewart Butterield and Caterina Fake's resignation from Yahoo! Marshall talks about some of the initial glory that Yahoo! derived from acquiring Flickr and some of the lessons to be learned from Flickr's success. Marshall's story is well written and spot on, but the more interesting story to me about Marshall's piece is how he wrote it. Interestingly enough, Marshall turned to FriendFeed as a source to get quotes and comments (myself included) for his article. Because of the dynamic, almost instantaneous nature of FriendFeed, Marshall was able to quickly poll a number of different blogger/pundits and use their FriendFeed comments as quotes for his story. In addition to me, he also quotes Scoble and Winer . Varun Mahajan commented on Marshall's post, "I see, where blogging is heading. You are in essence asking for blog pre-comments." Robert Scoble was also on FriendFeed earlier today announcing that he's been able to schedule some interview time with U.S. Speaker of the House Nanci Pelosi in his upcoming trip to Washington DC. Immediately Scoble turned to FriendFeed and started getting a lot of feedback about the types of questions he should ask her. It makes me wonder if this sort of use won't become more widespread in the f ...
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Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick has an insightful post over at ReadWriteWeb about yesterday's big news in the photo sharing world, Flickr co-founders Stewart Butterield and Caterina Fake's resignation from Yahoo! Marshall talks about some of the initial glory that Yahoo! derived from acquiring Flickr and some of the lessons to be learned from Flickr's success. Marshall's story is well written and spot on, but the more interesting story to me about Marshall's piece is how he wrote it. Interestingly enough, Marshall turned to FriendFeed as a source to get quotes and comments (myself included) for his article. Because of the dynamic, almost instantaneous nature of FriendFeed, Marshall was able to quickly poll a number of different blogger/pundits and use their FriendFeed comments as quotes for his story. In addition to me, he also quotes Scoble and Winer . Varun Mahajan commented on Marshall's post, "I see, where blogging is heading. You are in essence asking for blog pre-comments." Robert Scoble was also on FriendFeed earlier today announcing that he's been able to schedule some interview time with U.S. Speaker of the House Nanci Pelosi in his upcoming trip to Washington DC. Immediately Scoble turned to FriendFeed and started getting a lot of feedback about the types of questions he should ask her. It makes me wonder if this sort of use won't become more widespread in the f ...