webfeedr is the new (and first I think) native iPhone Friendfeed app …
I’m a big fan of Friendfeed, the great ‘social’ aggregator, that let’s you flow all your activity in Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader Shared Items, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Last.fm, and a ton of other social / sharing sites into it. It provides threaded conversations on everyone’s shared items, so it sparks some great dialogue and debate.
So I was interested to see a first native iPhone app for Friendfeeding launch today – interested enough to fork out my $0.99 and give it a whirl in fact. Hit the jump for some brief first impression thoughts and more screencaps …
One of the first things to take into account when sizing up webfeedr is that Friendfeed already has a pretty darn good iPhone optimized site, and is very easy and cool to use on Mobile Safari. Oh, and apparently Friendfeed have got their own iPhone native app not just in the works, but already in the App Store queue. So … webfeedr may need to be pretty special to stack up well against those two options.
Anyway, on to some quick thoughts on webfeedr:
Its interface is clean and easy to navigate – in fact it’s quite similar to the FF iPhone optimized page – with quick links for changing between main views up at the top of all screens – to change between Me, Friends, Rooms, and Everyone views – it does not have a link to ‘Best of the Day’ (and week / month) among these top choices, as the FF web app does. That might be a link that many will miss.
The app also has large, easy to spot buttons to Search and Share (post a message) up near the top of its interface. The Share function offers separate text entry fields for message and link, which seems quite handy.
There are (quite tiny) links under each post, for commenting, liking, and going to the link, if there is one, associated with the post. I have two gripes about this portion of the app. I found these links difficult to tap / hit and get a response – that may just be me, my clumsy fingers. The other is that links open in Safari – it would be nicer to see them open in an inline browser of some sort.
webfeedr’s interface is not bad – it just doesn’t strike me (at least so far) as way better than FF on Mobile Safari. Even its page load times when switching views and so on don’t seem much faster than FF in the browser.
Here’s a quick look at the FF iPhone site, for those who haven’t seen it:
Overall, my feeling about webfeedr is that it’s a good app, and reasonably priced at $0.99 – but not great yet. I also have a strong feeling that Friendfeed’s own native iPhone app will probably trump it – as nearly everything they’ve done so far has been pretty impressive.
So, it seems to me that webfeedr will need to bring some updates out and add some new bells and whistles if it wants to compete well with Friendfeed’s own offerings.
What do you all think? Any Friendfeed users ’round here?
Via: Mashable
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