Yostivanich

For the past sev­eral months I have been using Friend­feed and it rocks. The basic ser­vice aggre­gates RSS feeds from across the web. Of course this is a lit­tle bit sim­plis­tic so allow me to explain. Friend­feed allows you to plug in all the sites where you reside on the inter­webs and bring all those feeds together into one mas­sive feed. You can add friends as they join up and bring all of your friends actions on the web together all at once. The even bet­ter aspect of the ser­vice is that if a friend doesn’t use the ser­vice, you can cre­ate them. By which, Friend­feed allows you to cre­ate “imag­i­nary friends” and add all of the places they reside and the asso­ci­ated feed and poof your friend is now vis­i­ble in your Friendfeed.

The ser­vice has some other cool lit­tle tricks to make it all Web 2.0 com­pli­ment, includ­ing it’s own sorta social net­work. You can ask for rec­om­mended friends who are friends with your real friends already on the site. You can also “like” or com­ment on events very quickly and eas­ily. Let­ting your friend, know “Hey cool shoes, where can I find those?” The site itself is not flashy, but that makes it work. You don’t need a ton of gim­micks when all you need and use the site for is to read what all your friends are doing.

The site already has a Face­book app that does a neat trick. When the Face­book app is added by your friend on Face­book, you will see their data in your feed. Over­all the site is well devel­oped and I find myself using it and lov­ing it. I highly rec­om­mend this ser­vice for any­one who has trou­ble keep­ing up with every­thing your friends do online.