Friendfeed
Friendfeed is a relatively new service that combines activity feeds from many different sites to create a lifestream that you can share with friends or the world. A lifestream collects short messages sent via Twitter, GoogleReader (an RSS news reader), Amazon, photo-sharing sites and many of the other fragments of our lives that can be recorded online. Once you’ve shared your feed, Friendfeed sets itself apart by giving members the ability to discuss topics within their feed. This makes connecting ideas far easier than the highly fractured view available in Twitter.
Friendfeed has ventured into creating ways for you to share your lifestream on other social sites, such as Facebook, iGoogle, RSS readers and your own blog.
Friendfeed also lets you categorize your friends’ feeds into favorites, personal and professional groups, so that you can better track their activity in the appropriate context. This also allows you to be selective about what you share and with whom you share it. The management of multiple lists can become confusing, nevertheless this kind of segmentation of social relationships begins to mirror the way we interact with people in the physical world. Friendfeed also has a “rooms” feature that makes it easy to create groups and share discussion and activity among members.
Using Friendfeed on the Web is convenient. There are a growing number of PC applications that let you login to the service, as well as others, and keep a live running summary of all your friends’ activity on your desktop. Here’s a list of those applications we’ll continue to update:
Home page: Friendfeed
Lifestreaming service that aggregates feeds from many sites and redistributes your activity stream for use on social network hubs and in other applications.
Tags: activity tracking, lifestreaming, micro-blogging
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