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The new FriendFeed looks a lot like Twitter (but it’s better!)
There has been a lot of buzz on Twitter in the last few days about the rapid increase in FriendFeed email follower notifications people are getting.
FriendFeed released a newly redesigned version of its service earlier this week, introducing a new ‘friend search’ feature allowing users to import their Twitter, Facebook or email contacts, hence the unusual amount notifications!
In terms of design, FriendFeed places the emphasis on viewing both freshly posted items from various social profiles (RSS, YouTube, Flickr and many more), and user discussions as they happen, very much like Twitter.
I recently reviewed my online media consumption, and I came to the conclusion that less is more. Unfortunately, spring cleaning my Twitter and RSS feeds turned out to be a daunting task, and I eventually gave up!
FriendFeed however, helps cut through the noise by allowing users to categorize the feeds they subscribe to (for e.g. personal feeds, professional feeds etc), and I want to make sure that my FriendFeed remains a clutter-free zone. Whilst you might be able to follow 1000+ people on Twitter, 1000+ FriendFeeds sounds a) silly b)unmanageable.
Besides the design change, the service’s site-wide search has been given a much-needed overhaul. Instead of having to first start a search, then wait until it’s done to begin filtering the results, it will pull up suggestions of what kind of content you want to get at as you’re typing. For instance, in a search for “iPhone” it now asks whether you want to be searching for content from just your friends or everyone before it does the query.
And let’s not forget the FriendFeed rooms which are awesome to discuss and aggregate content around certain topics, and I’d love to see more brands using FriendFeed…
What’s your take on their new design? Do you think you’ll use FriendFeed more as a result of their latest redesign?
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Hi,
I’m definitely seeing FriendFeed as the new/next/potential next meta-social network.
Their new version is not only a redesign of the interface.
FriendFeed has been around for a lot of time, like almost as much time as the rss itself.
Anything “rss-able” is FriendFeed compatible. So, microblogging life stream, or any other of “public life stream”, that are, in essence, rss-able just fit in very naturally in the FriendFeed space.
From the new FriendFeed, you can tweet as much as you want, but you can also have a look at what your “digital firends” are doing and up to. Anything they do on their daliy web journey is available, as long as they DECIDED to make it public.
Which is one of the many many advantages THAT “lifestream” is so superior to F€¶«¡B@ôôk in trustfulness and pertinency
Anyhow, I am delighted with the new FriendFeed and the opportunity it gives me to :
keep completely up to date with all my netsocial activities
not regret my decision to unsuscribe from F€¶«¡B@ôôk, since I think I’ve found “my meta social network”…
There are a couple of missing feature, though, amongst which mails. Mails are “rss-able”. But, Gmail et Ymail are making really difficult for aggregators to access those rss. I think that now that we see one way of making the complete fusion of our net identities(and thus activities), Gmail and Ymail are not likely to help this trend…
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Hi Zackatoustra,
Thanks so much for your message.
FriendFeed has been one of these tools that everybody signed up for but never really used; fortunately for FriedFeed, it looks like this is about to change…
I really like the fact FriendFeed helps me cut through the noise and I can now easily follow my favourite blogs from around the world!
I also use Facebook as an RSS Feed – despite my Facebook friends having nothing to do with Social Media, Facebook comes up as one of my top traffic sources.
Now I need to encourage my Facebook/real-life friends to start commenting on my blog!