i’ve heard a lot of the hype around friendfeed, both on the positive side (quick, easy, great for keeping informed) and negative (overload, overkill, too much information). my very quick initial feedback.

• getting started was easy
• sign-up was simple and quick
• getting my first 5 services installed was also painless
• it couldn’t find my webmail contacts, except for gmail
• only 4 of my gmail contacts use it

so bottom line: without the necessary “critical mass” of my friends using it, i’ll leave it alone.