You Should Probably Be Using FriendFeed

As Louis Gray pointed out a couple of days ago, FriendFeed continues to improve their service. In the past few days they’ve rolled out, unannounced a better bundling package for feeds. For example if you you’ve shared 5 things on Google Reader recently, it used to shove them all together in a way that was hard to read beyond the first one – now they have made it simple to unbundle these items and locate individual elements. This is especially handy for a service like Digg where a person can easily digg a few dozen items in a matter of minutes.

As I noted in October, I really like FriendFeed and quite frankly I’m a little surprised that more of the “regulars”, those tech users who seem to be on every service, either don’t use it or don’t talk about it often. Not that it really matters since you can create ‘imaginary friends’ and recreate them yourself provided you know what user name they use for sites – an ingenious feature I might add.

I also find FriendFeed to be my killer app for Facebook. Rather than having to install a dozen or so apps for all the various services I use, I simply have my FriendFeed app that displays all my updates to a dozen or so services in one window.

It’s just a service that is great at what it does and doesn’t try to do too much. Yet the service it does provide seems to be an ever more important one going forward as we’re continually bombarded by new social networks and the like vying for our attention. I’d be surprised if FriendFeed doesn’t catch on in 2008.

Leave me your email in the comments if you need an invite. If you already have the service, you can find my profile here.

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    never heard this before, but hey! thanks for the post. I'm gonna try this one now. :)
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