Monday’s Gillmor Gang finally convinced me that FriendFeed is the way to go to aggregate my online activities. I’m “aharden” on FriendFeed, just like I am here and on my preferred services moving forward.
Which services do I prefer? They’re the ones I’ll link to FriendFeed. I may still use a service like ping.fm to update my status/microblog in multiple locations, but only one of those places (right now it’s identi.ca) will be in my FriendFeed.
A few changes as a result of this:
- No more daily link posting here. My del.icio.us links are in my FriendFeed.
- No more Yahoo! Pipes on my homepage (which is still being rebuilt — slowly) – I’ll embed FriendFeed.
- I’m going to start using my last.fm account more to see what kind of data will flow out of it.
- This may be the tool that gets me out of Bloglines and into Google Reader. We’ll see. I think some of the data flows I watch in Bloglines will be obviated by what I’ll end up watching in FriendFeed.
I think FriendFeed is probably doing the best job of both aggregating content and stimulating conversation around it. I haven’t used it much, but I’ve heard a lot about it.
The only portion of my social graph that I mined when joining FriendFeed was my Gmail contacts. I plan to ease myself into the FriendFeed pool by being careful about who I choose to follow.
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April 9, 2009 at 8:05 am
Scott
Friendfeed is what I use to build my Net Activity stream on my website/blog. I do not currently pump my blog feed into Friendfeed because my intent was to use it on my blog. But we will see, I might add it down the road, it all depends.
Typically I try to build everything myself, not because I can build it better, but as a learning exercise. I talked myself out of building something that pooled all the feeds of all the services I use, at least for now.
Besides, like you I decided to ease into the community aspect of Friendfeed.
BTW, I used Bloglines for a number of years, Google Reader had some features I liked before Bloglines added those features and I have never looked back. It is a nice tool.
April 9, 2009 at 8:23 am
aharden
Yeah, what’s keeping me in Bloglines the most is habit/comfort and all the items I’ve bookmarked there. It’s buggy and slow at times and isn’t very innovative. I remember how long it took them to integrate adequate Atom feed parsing.
FriendFeed is a lot easier than setting up a Yahoo Pipe or doing it yourself, that’s for sure.