10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed – Part 1

2008 June 5

http://www.sucomments.com/wp-content/Images/Friend%20feed/Marc.jpgBy Guest Blogger: Marc Berry

Marc and his wife write real talk about all areas of relationships, from sex to abuse to pure love and the language of flowers at The Incurable Romantic. Marc is also the author of techne-eikon, a blog about Web 2.0 and Internet Marketing. You can also follow Marc on FriendFeed and/or Twitter.

You can also follow Teeg on FriendFeed and Twitter.

FriendFeed for the Socially Inept – Part 1
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As a blogger I am understandably interested in Web 2.0 and online social networks such as StumbleUpon, Digg, and Facebook. Unfortunately, when it comes to these networks I am the very definition of socially inept.

I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m a bad friend. I forget about people and sites and networks and all that. I have online ADD, jumping from one thing to the next, and immediately forgetting what I was just doing. It doesn’t help that in order to maintain my involvement in most of these networks, I have to actually go to the site, log in, and play catch-up. Thumb something up, digg it, and oh yeah, twitter it. Add in forums, groups, chats and RSS feeds, and the information overload becomes unbearable.

It’s a wonder I haven’t thrown my computer out of the window yet.

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Enter FriendFeed, my newest friend… FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof, making it easy to keep up with what everybody is doing.

Of course, first you have to add them as friends on FriendFeed, but that is usually just a matter of searching for them, and subscribing to their updates. If there is someone that you want to follow, but they aren’t on FriendFeed, sending them an invitation is as easy as typing in their email address, or having FF import your address book.

This naturally brings up the question, “Must my friends be FF users in order for me to follow them”? Thankfully, they do not. FF has a friends setting called “imaginary friends”, which allows you to follow non-members around as they post stuff to their favourite sites.
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Only publicly submitted information is tracked, so your friends won’t think that you are too creepy, which is always a bonus. You can also add their blog’s RSS feed, making the service a simple RSS reader, though if you really use RSS, you may find a dedicated reader a better solution.


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  • Case Stevens
    Wow, FF is one I'm not that familiar with, so I'm reading this with great interest and looking forward to the next issue. Didn't know about “imaginary friends”!
    Thanks a lot Teeg and Marc.
  • Teeg
    Hi Case, The more I look at FriendFeed, the more I'm impressed with it. For example, consider a twitter post on FF. It doesn't just show the tweet, it shows all the tweets that came as responses, and any comments people made on FF considering that tweet.

    It makes it easy to see why so many people have been switching over to FF while Twitter's been having problems.
  • Hey Marc, I just subscribed to your FF lol... not sure why I wasn't :P

    Imaginary friends huh! I didn't know that one either. FF is a great way to keep in touch with what everyone is doing. Thanks for the heads up :)

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