{"id":11077,"date":"2008-02-28T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/28\/feeding-on-friends-with-friendfeedcom\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:28:55","slug":"feeding-on-friends-with-friendfeedcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/28\/feeding-on-friends-with-friendfeedcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding on friends with FriendFeed.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the things that people on the web do is follow each other.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading blog posts, watching favorite video clips, stare at shared photos, reply to comments, get status updates, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

In the previous years, the number of people who were online was much smaller.\u00c2\u00a0 And they weren’t publishing as much as they do now.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone and their dog has a blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Pictures and videos are flying around.\u00c2\u00a0 Playlists and favorite songs are shared.\u00c2\u00a0 Micro-blogging is blossoming.\u00c2\u00a0 How can anyone follow all that?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, RSS, of course, is one of the common answers.<\/p>\n

But, RSS has its share of problems.\u00c2\u00a0 It is still too technical to be used by many people.\u00c2\u00a0 Good tools are a few.\u00c2\u00a0 And grouping things around people isn’t much fun yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, feed discovery is still an issue (from a person’s point of view, not the aggregator point of view).<\/p>\n

FriendFeed.com<\/a> web service recently went public and solved a few problems.\u00c2\u00a0 It starts off with feed discovery.\u00c2\u00a0 When you register and login, you can easily specify all the places that you publish at – blog, Flickr photostream, del.icio.us bookmarks, LinkedIn profile, Twitter, and so on and so forth.\u00c2\u00a0 This way, when somebody is interested in following you up, he or she will just need to subscribe to you once and get all the stuff from everywhere where you publish.\u00c2\u00a0 This is cool.<\/p>\n

\"FriendFeed<\/p>\n

Another problem that FriendFeed solves is the problem of virtual people.\u00c2\u00a0 In social networks, it is often that you can’t follow a person who hasn’t registered yet.\u00c2\u00a0 You can invite them in, wait for them to join, and then be notified when they joined.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is often impossible to follow people who decided not to join the network.\u00c2\u00a0 In FriendFeed, you can create “imaginary friends”.\u00c2\u00a0 This way, you can group people and sources in any way you like best.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is priceless.<\/p>\n

For example, you can create an imaginary friend for a person who hasn’t registered, and you can assign a blog and a Flickr photostream to him.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, you can create an imaginary friend for a real person, who even registered, but who publishes so much that you can’t take it.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of following of their stuff, you just pick things that you are interested in (say Twitter messages and blog, but not Flickr and YouTube) and link those to your imaginary friend.<\/p>\n

With this functionality, following topics or events becomes extremely easy.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are interested in kebab cooking ,or in Cyprus switching to Euro, or\u00c2\u00a0 anything else for that matter, you can create an imaginary friend for the topic and assign it blogs, Google Reader shared items, Picasa photos, or whatever else is supported.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lot of potential in here.<\/p>\n

Another thing that FriendFeed does right is presentation of data.\u00c2\u00a0 There are links to original sources whenever possible, and there are thumbnails for whatever possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, people have avatars, which makes it very easy to distinguish who is who and who published what.<\/p>\n

And if all that wasn’t enough, you can subscribe to updates via email.\u00c2\u00a0 Which means that you can really improve your productivity while still following a whole lot of sources.\u00c2\u00a0 No need to run around the web looking for updates.\u00c2\u00a0 No need to interrupt your work flow to see if there is a reply to your comment.\u00c2\u00a0 You just get used to getting back at all the updates once a day in a brief, but nicely looking digest form, and that’s it!<\/p>\n

FriendFeed<\/a> is a really nice services which a lot of people were waiting for and which they will appreciate now that it is finally here.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and just in case, here is the link to my FriendFeed profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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