Backup and Export of FriendFeed Data

Should Lifestreambackup support Friendfeed? As soon as the news broke that Friendfeed was acquired by Facebook, the emails began coming in asking us to backup FriendFeed, as many users wanted to export their data. Our general approach to product development is to place highest priority on the things our existing users want most, so if FriendFeed is something you really want us to support, let us know.

We have heard from several users, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that a large number of you want Friendfeed backup support. So if you do, leave a comment on this post, send a twitter message to @robmay saying that we should support friendfeed, or tag a tweet with #backupfriendfeed.

We need to get over 100 requests to move it to the front of the “next features” list, so you have a high hurdle to overcome. We will wait to hear from you.

Update: Mark asked a very good question about what we would backup for Friendfeed. I’ll tell you that we made a mistake with both Flickr and Twitter by thinking people wanted just the bare minimum and backing up the basics while storing them in an easy-to-restore format instead of something user friendly. We learned from that mistake. We know that you tend to want everything backed up and easy to read. So we will back up everything the friendfeed api allows us to pull. Give us a few hours to pour through it and we will let you know soon what we can do.

Update #2: For those existing users who don’t know if they want FriendFeed to jump to the top of the list, it would move ahead of the Gmail rewrite to spawn new EC2 instances so that massive initial Gmail backups don’t take so long, and the Basecamp workaround to let us backup files that aren’t available through the API.

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