Since FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook last summer, there has not only been a large exodus of users from the site, but also an increasing volume of pronouncements that FriendFeed, if not already dead yet, is in fact dying rapidly. The major outage last week sent TechCrunch into a near-orgasmic state of proclaiming that, not only was FriendFeed dead, but that no one cared.
As a matter of fact, people do care whether FriendFeed lives or dies, and it is to serve that community of brilliant, innovative individuals that I created the site, Is FriendFeed dead yet?. Using a patent-pending “death checker” algorithm, plus some math, I am able to determine with a high degree of certainty whether or not FriendFeed is still alive. Now, with this site, you do not even need to visit FriendFeed.com to determine if it’s dead yet—you can do this entirely from my site.
Let me know if you’d like to donate to support its continued development.
Actually, the site uses PHP and its CURL library to retrieve the FriendFeed home page, check the HTTP status code, and determine if it’s returning enough data.
It will also verify the deadness of an individual FriendFeed user, like this:
http://isfriendfeeddeadyet.com/glenc
Check out the online help for more details.
