Just tried the FriendFeed beta, which was released to the public last night. It introduces some nice features, the main one being that you can now categorise your “friends” into lists. The thing is that the more both FriendFeed and Facebook evolve, the less I can tell them apart anymore.

Some differences are the app-ecosystem on Facebook and the amount of feeds you can feed to FriendFeed (though I think some apps take care of that). And maybe FriendFeed will eventually integrate apps as well, who knows?

The thing is that I don’t mind. FriendFeed is my way of staying in touch with the countless people that have something to say online. It’s unrestricted. Facebook is about the people that I want to have strong ties with, and I purposely don’t add people that I don’t know. So both can definitely co-exist as far as I’m concerned.

But that doesn’t take away that we essentially have a clone on our hands, and it’s a good thing that patents on the internet are apparently not worth squat anymore.

Vincent