| Added FriendFeed to xerotopia -- About FriendFeed; |
[Jul. 9th, 2008|03:18 am] |
I did a slight revamp of xerotopia.net tonight. I've embedded both my recent LJ entries and my recent FriendFeed activity.
If you haven't heard about FriendFeed yet then let me inform you...
FriendFeed is an excellent service that enables you in two main ways:
1) Collect all of your RSS feeds into a single place accessible anywhere.
2) Collect your entire web activity into a single place for others to read.
So, say you have accounts on Flickr, Digg, Twitter, LJ, Google Reader, Reddit, Disqus, Linked In, Pownce, Google Talk, del.icio.us and Facebook (a fairly common set for the current early adopter). Instead of having all of your friends have to check each of those to see what you're doing, you can import all of those services directly into FriendFeed and then your friends have a single place to see what you're up to. In many instances they can even post information directly back to the source service from the FF interface.
But that is just the vanity aspect, what about a tool for you?
That's where point #1 above comes in, you can take the RSS feeds (aka, Live Bookmarks, Atom Feeds, etc.) for all of your online comics, certain LJ friends, blogs you read, and anything else you keep up with and add them as "imaginary friends". They will then be imported into your feed in real time. Think of it as a LiveJournal Friends page that is completely open, and where you don't have to be a paid member to add a syndication journal.
A nice bonus is that there has been a great community building up on FriendFeed lately. Yes it aggregates all of these other services, but it also has its own system of posting, including liking and commenting on any post from any service. It gives you many more characters to work with than Twitter and less overhead than LJ or Tumblr. The system of Likes and Comments is very simple but increasingly powerful for finding new content and distributing your own.
If you and your friends live on Facebook now, you'll be pleased to know you can setup your feeds and import them directly into Facebook via their app. There's supposed to be a way to get your Facebook activity back out into FF as well.
So, check out the new xerotopia, and then sign up for FriendFeed to make your life easier. I'm jokeyxero on FriendFeed, from there you can get linked directly to any other services I join so we can stay connected.
#1 new user tip: the Hide button is your friend. |
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