A few people have asked why I didn’t weigh in on the whole FriendFeed debate today – basically Duncan Riley of TechCrunch said he didn’t really understand why FriendFeed was exploding in popularity while Louis Gray told him he was missing the point of the service. Well first and foremost I’m busy with my new gig, but also I’ve said what I had to say quite a few times now.

I’ve been using FriendFeed since sometime around the beginning of October last year. Back then it had far less features and was still in private beta – but I still could see its potential – exactly what it is reaching right now. I was even surprised back then that Google bought Jaiku (which they still have yet to do anything with) instead of FriendFeed – which of course was started by a group of ex-Googlers.

Back in December I wrote a post entitled “You Should Probably Be Using FriendFeed” in which I stated:

“I really like FriendFeed and quite frankly I’m a little surprised that more of the “regulars”, those tech users who seem to be on every service, either don’t use it or don’t talk about it often.”

As so here we are. People are just now sitting at the table, but I’ve already had my dinner.

And of course remember that Prediction #7 for 2008 was that social aggregators would be huge. Naturally I mentioned FriendFeed first in that category (though they do go far beyond simple aggregation now).

I think this debate may qualify as another Bitchmeme – whew it’s been a while!