There are a lot of bright minds currently trying to figure out what’s going to be the biggest deal for Web 3.0. Crowds of visionaries and coders are developing all kinds of software and services in anticipation of the “fallout” from the social web.
One of the most pressing problems with Web 2.0 is, now that we are all so darned social across multiple sites, how we can aggregate our friends from each major social site to one place without having to monitor all our different friend groups separately.
Imagine being able to watch what your friends at YouTube are up to while at the same time keeping up with your Digg, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Twitter friends activity. No one has time to constantly monitor everything separately by clicking, logging in, and checking on activity at each site.
To make yourself a more effective and attentive friend and to keep up on what others are doing, including your competitors, it would be nice to have all your accounts merge into one feed that regularly updates when one of your friends Diggs something and others Twitter and Stumble on other things.
Enter: FriendFeed.com
How it Works
- Sign up here.
- Tell FriendFeed what your username is for all the accounts you’d like to merge into the feed.
- Done!
Now all your friends across the sites you choose to include will be updating this new feed whenever they do something on any of those sites. Then you can glance at it whenever you please to get the “pulse” of your larger friend group on all the big social sites.
Sneaky Competitive Intel
Become friends with your competitors on all the sites you can and watch what they are submitting and commenting on.
Whether you use FriendFeed.com to spy on competitors or spy on friends, it will definitely help you quickly “check in” on the action and be a better social marketer (or butterfly).
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This is pretty cool, and a great way to save time and keep up with people on sites in which you are a member but don’t particularly care for, and only joined because you have friends there that insisted on it.
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to the other end of it, though…instead of getting all my friends in one feed, I have been exploring how to get myself into one feed to make it easier for my
5 million20 adoring fans tostalkfollow me.Up until yesterday, the activity feed from a site like BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog seemed about the best option. But MyBlogLog only shows your commenting activities on blogs that are also MyBlogLog members, so a lot of my comments will never show in it…and a lot of the services they allow you to add, they never report your activities at all.
But I did find something better that gives you a lot more control over which sites are included in it, and you can add any that those blogging communities don’t support or report in their activity feeds. And you can get a lot more of your comments..and the full text of them, rather than just an excerpt.
You’ll have to read my latest blog post to find out how I did it.
apps last blog post..Get Yourself Together in One Feed
Great insight. It is definitely all about speed when it comes to knowledge on the web. Ahead of the game as usual jack
That seems like a very useful service. I’m pretty new to social networking. The only social networking site I have an account with is Facebook, so I don’t have a need for Friendfeed, yet. But it will sure come in handy if I ever get around to signing up with these other social networking sites.