FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s
Everyone's Robert Scoble's favorite real-time microblogging service, FriendFeed, is now allowing users to post and download many kinds of files through their site.
Sadly, video files are not on the list of accepted formats. Yet. And users can only upload three MP3s in a 24-hour period. However, other file types, from PSDs to RTFs, are accepted and up- and downloadable.
According to the above-linked FriendFeed blog post, "This has been an especially popular request from organizations and companies that collaborate using FriendFeed groups. We've certainly been using this feature internally and have found it extremely useful. We hope it'll help make you and your collaborators even more productive, and a little more attached to FriendFeed."
Users can click the posted links to download files. With MP3s specifically, an embedded media player appears in the post.
Users can also choose to post via email, sending files as attachments to share@friendfeed.com. Naturally, there's a file-size limit, as well, which we hit pretty quickly while trying to upload a large Photoshop file and were given a simple "Could not upload" error message in return.
There's no pause or cancel button on uploads, and there are no clear guidelines yet on exactly what the size upload limits are, either for single files or cumulative daily uploads. Another missing link is a possible expiration date on uploaded files. While these questions remain unanswered, the biggest question in our minds is why the implementation of this feature took so long in the first place.
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Jolie,
That's good news. Are you going to share some interesting videos with us using this feature where you play with MiFi cards and other things and make them hard by touching them? I'll watch that.
Nice! FriendFeed is so much better than Twitter. I think Twitter will become infrastructure to the realtime Web. FriendFeed gets has it right when it comes to features and UI.
It could lead to piracy, there’s a possibility if they are not careful. But overall its a great feature. Other social networking sites might follow FriendFeed soon.
Thanks for great post.
Thats great,I hope they would add very soon the video sharing feature too!
I saw the File button on FF yesterday while trying to upload photos. About 1/2 the photos wouldn't upload (the day before I had no difficulties). I imagine this glitch to be resolved quickly, other users did not seem to have this problem.
love your stuff, just connected with you ff!
Thanks for the post, great stuff.
Thank you for your information my friend.
It is a good news that we can share some files like music.
But I wonder whether we can upload youtube videos and watch them on Friendfeed. How can i do it? By the way,at usual,when I wanna download a youtube video online,I use Pavtube video converter and upload the video to myspace.
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Thats great,I hope they would add very soon the video sharing feature too!