Feed My Friends

Okay. Not exactly. I wanted to tell everyone about Friendfeed.com. It's a neat little site I found a few months ago. Like any web 2.0 reader, Friendfeed can read RSS feeds however it's biggest function which I enjoy is the ability to display thumb sized pictures from picture sites like Flickr.com. My wife Michelle for the last few months has been posting pictures on Flickr.com. Friendfeed.com also offers the capability of organizing feeds into categories called "imaginary friends". The idea is that most if not all feeds should originate from your friends. Therefore Friendfeed offers this capability. It is cool since your "imaginary friends" don't need to be members of Friendfeed.

The thing I DON'T like about friendfeed.com.
 are:
- unlike Gmail,which categories by email thread, Friendfeed's alerts simply run down in uncategorized way. Come on people, help me categorize my feeds!
- Lack of Security control, Strangers can easily subscribe to your friend.

For a beta product, it is pretty good. In conclusion, I recommend you sign for friendfeed.com.

Comments

Fab said…
I might just check this out soon. I think you are right about random people being able to find out a lot about you just by subscribing to your friendfeed. It looks like it will even show your amazon purchases! I heard about FaceBook doing that to people around Christmas. People knew what someone bought for them because their amazon purchases showed up on their facebook page.
March 24, 2008 at 10:47:00 PM EST
Michelle said…
Fab, how can I take you seriously with that picture?
March 25, 2008 at 7:09:00 AM EST
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