FriendFeed – One feed to keep track of all your friend’s activities

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FriendFeed is a new entrant to the web 2.0 social networking arena, and seems quite useful. The FriendFeed service tracks and aggregates content from people’s accounts across different web services.

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Upon signing up for FriendFeed, you can add a list of services to your account (Twitter, YouTube, Picasa, Google Reader shared items, etc) by providing your usernames, and you get an aggregated feed listing the latest activities. You can share this feed with others, and also subscribe to similar feeds from your online buddies.

With the expanding number of web 2.0 services you’re using, sharing stuff with friends only gets tougher. To share activity across sites, you’ve to give away different URLs to your friends (for e.g., one for del.icio.us, one for twitter and so on).

But now, thanks to FriendFeed – sharing your stuff and following your friends’ activities can get easier – since the content from multiple services are combined into one single feed.

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FriendFeed also has a neat Facebook App that you can add to your Facebook profile page. There’s also an iGoogle Gadget to add to your iGoogle page. You can find my FriendFeed page here

FriendFeed is running on beta. To request an invite, follow this link. What’s your view on FriendFeed? Have your say in the comments.

16 Responses to “FriendFeed – One feed to keep track of all your friend’s activities”

  1. shankar, this is cool…probably you could have titiled it as “FriendFeed – One feed to keep track of all your friend’s online activities”

  2. Interesting..they should work on design though…

  3. Yet another social site! :-) How many can a person manage?

  4. Seems interesting. I don’t think I can manage all the networking sites though hehe. I think they’ve got the right idea.

  5. Oh, another Social site. They should research something that could beat Social Media. Not to create another one.

  6. Oh i am fed up with huge list of social networking sites ! they need to create something different ! a new concept ! Integration of all services is just old thing.

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  8. hoo nice site :D to get friends :)

  9. The concept is good but old.

  10. This is nice, may not appeal to all but nice concept.
    Thanks for the invite

  11. That’’s really cool – we can only check where there is much activity!

  12. oh! so many social networking sites my head is spinning!… i hope u can write a post about the best social networking sites available on the net today…

  13. i wonder how many clones will spring up to try and copy friendfeed. looks like profilactic to me.

  14. shankar…ur blog’s looking cool with pr 5…congrats!

  15. @Innovations&InterestingRamblings: Yep, thanks for the heads up :D I changed it.
    @Nirmal: Who knows, each one is addictive :)
    @Brown, Madhur: Yeah, it’s a great concept, I can just use one single feed to broadcast to my friends what I’m doing on the web.
    @SankarAnand, Ken: Agree there are too many sites, but this one has just come to reduce the burden ;)
    @Ram: You’re welcome.
    @Narendra: Yes, indeed.
    @Thiru: Haha yeah :)
    @Nicholas: Thanks for dropping by :) If I write such a post, you know it’ll be Myspace/Facebook that’ll be on top :D
    @Syayhid: Hehe, let’s see how many FriendFeed clones spring up in the near future ;)
    @Ashwini: Yep, thanks for the wishes. Congrats to you too for getting PR 5.

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