Understanding FriendFeed’s Concept
If you’re using Twitter, you definitely want to be using FriendFeed in conjunction.
Whatever is great about Twitter is now even better because of FriendFeed. FriendFeed allows you to relate back and forth in one convenient spot without the chopped up “resharing” that goes on in Twitter.
Will FriendFeed replace Twitter? Not anytime soon, but it does enhance it. As you’ll see, FriendFeed has a twitter-like feature where you can post a quick message (not character limited, by the way).
But FriendFeed works with Twitter and Facebook and Flickr and Digg and StumbleUpon, and on and on – and funnels all of their feeds into your own feed. Don’t get confused just yet – you’ll see how it works in the tutorial I’m posting in the members’ area!
FriendFeed is a social network aggregator. What this means is it can take all of the feeds from dozens of social networking, bookmarking, news, and video sites plus feeds from websites and blogs, which you specify – and “stream” them into one really cool place.
Not only that, but you can organize these feeds into smaller groups of interest – your family, the inner circle mastermind group, the Team, favorite marketers – however you want to group them – all in one place.
Another big thing is that your FriendFeed feed becomes its own feed that others can subscribe to. So, rather than having a profile like so many other social sites, FriendFeed has your publicly shared RSS and other social stuff gathered in one place.
At the time of this writing, there are about 59 (and growing as FriendFeed is happy to take suggestions from their users) different social sites here.
You can choose to be public or private.
You can hide someone’s constant twittering but enjoy their Flickr photos and YouTube videos.
As you can imagine, this could get noisy with all of your friends’ feeds streaming into one place. But FriendFeed has a way to tune out the noise and sort the content, so that you can get just the stuff you really want.
As you can imagine, if you know a lot of people and you also have a lot of memberships in a lot of different social sites – this is a LOT of input. But the point is, with FriendFeed, it’s ALL in one place so you no longer have to hunt and peck for the information you want.
Let’s say you wanted to tell your inner circle email list about the latest webinar and you needed some instant input – you could post your query here. Not only that, but FriendFeed can sort and filter what you want to read and then you can tell it what you would rather ignore.
If you’re following a particular marketer or product launch, you can input certain parameters that give you information just for that specific topic. FriendFeed is all about creating and following conversations about anything you could possibly be interested in.
To learn how to use FriendFeed – from setting up an account to spying on your competitors, to building your ‘brand’ and then marketing your products and services, be sure to visit all of our pages and tutorials on FriendFeed. Accessible from the FriendFeed tag page.
