One of the easiest and fun website to use in social media is FriendFeed. FriendFeed allows you to pull in RSS feeds from your social media website and your blogs so that your friends can read your feed. It is also a free service that you can use to enhance your online presence.
As your friends connect with you via FriendFeed, your number of follower will increase. You can also use FriendFeed to find new friends that you can connect with and grow your network. To help you get an understand of how to use FriendFeed, I have provided you with …read more

Facebook announced today that it is acquiring Friendfeed. In my opinion FriendFeed is a small business success story all by itself. It’s become a valuable social networking tool for many, including myself. FriendFeed is my favorite way to keep up with my favorite bloggers, Tweets, Facebook friends, and news sites all in one place.

I wonder what Facebook is planning to do with their new acquisition? I’m sure they will integrate it with Facebook in some way, but will it be a major integration, or minor changes? How will it affect my small business? I guess only time will tell.
According to …read more

Ah Twitter.  The blogerati are raising their glasses to you in homage of your passing.  FriendFeed is standing in the corner being polite, warm, and charming.  At the bar, people are shaking their heads, talking about going to FriendFeed’s place after the wake…
Hold on a second here.  I’m not seeing a huge decline in Tweets, course it’s a little hard to tell since I can only pull 20 reqs/hr through Twhirl.
The discussion and debate about Twitter’s untimely (maybe ironic since they just got a whack o’ cash) demise seems to focus on the Replies tab being toast since Tuesday (yeah …read more

Yes, lots and lots of discussion about FriendFeed this week and weekend.  The new rooms feature is getting serious attention and with good reason I think.
I created a room for MapleLeaf 2.0 as a place to discuss Canadian tech (and other techie things), and to make sure no one else grabbed it!
Come on over and join the Maple Leaf 2.0 room on FriendFeed.
Given how active some of the discussions have been lately, I think both FriendFeed and FriendFeed rooms have a lot of potential.

More and more discussion about FriendFeed of late, and again the subject of the comments left on FriendFeed becoming disconnected from the posts themselves rears its head.
Startup Mentality linked to my post yesterday about FriendFeed becoming my interaction portal, taking the stance of keeping things on your blog:
There should be no reason why you have to monitor everything to see what people think about what you said — just have it fed back into your blog. Your blog is the center of your universe.
[snip]
To steal a late 90’s term, your blog should be your portal. You start with it everyday …read more

I got into FriendFeed with most of the other bloggerati some time ago.  Frankly, though, I couldn’t get into it.  It was just another thing to have to pay attention to.  Even when Twhirl let me watch my FriendFeed stream and my Twitter stream, I still didn’t grok it.
In the last few days though, I started making a concerted effort to pay attention to my FriendFeed stream.  Realizing that there might be comments and questions about the things I wrote or shared, I wanted to make sure I tuned into that.
While doing that, I found that the people I was …read more

Earlier today I say Mark Evan’s ponder getting back into the Pownce habit (which ironically is down/sluggish right now):
I’d really like to use Pownce because it has a richer set of features, including things such as the ability to share files. And while Twitter become the dominant player, Pownce continues to quietly make it ways as the second-place player that tries harder. The biggest challenge facing Pownce is there’s a raging party happening in Twitter’s backyard, and no one wants to leave a rockin’ party for a party with fewer people – even if the Twitter party gets out of …read more

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will better applications?
Erick Schonfeld bemoans the state of information overload in his latest post on Techcrunch:
I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts …read more

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about FriendFeed vs SocialThing!.  My own take, which isn’t all that awe inspiring, but I do fall into the “FriendFeed makes my info overload worse” camp.
In a guest post on Read/Write Web, Muhammad Saleem interviews SocialThing! CEO Matt Galligan and we get some interesting insights into the differences, as Matt sees it, between FriendFeed and SocialThing!:
Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb’s post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. I signed …read more

In October of last year (yes during the bn days) I wrote about FriendFeed.  The digerati hadn’t really found it, but I got in and set up my account and promptly forgot about it.
So while this is undoubtedly cool, I think people with say a few hundred friends on Facebook similar numbers on other social networks, will find that they are drowning in a sea of information. Source: From Google to FriendFeed:One Feed to Unite Your Friends | A View from the Isle

In the past week or so it has exploded (back?) onto the scene, and I hooked back into …read more