FriendFeed, Aggregate and Share Web Content With Friends
FriendFeed is a new social network that aggregates and shares your feeds from various web services. You just add the accounts you use and then your posts to those services are automatically added to FriendFeed and shared with your friends, who then can can then comment on various items that are posted.
FriendFeed was created by a team of ex-Google employees and recently launched out of private beta, now open to everyone. Here’s my account on FriendFeed.
The goal of FriendFeed is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. You get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. And your friends get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you’ve shared.
Check out Eric Eldon’s excellent VentureBeat write-up on the FriendFeed launch.
FriendFeed also includes some interesting usage statistics, for example here’s a pie charge showing top sites where I post.
UPDATE: Per Ted’s recommendation, I’m checking out iminta as well. Here’s my account on iminta. For more on iminta, check out the recent write-up on Mashable.
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on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Did you hear about http://www.spokeo.com.
“Perfect” for any stalker, jealous friends, parents….
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I recommend iminta.com. It’s made with love, not self-funded millions.
http://iminta.com/people/tedr
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Ted, I use several services that are self-funded, overfunded and so on. That usually has nothing to do with why I like a service or not.
It sounds like there is more to the story. Do tell.
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am
My question is, what’s to stop them from using your seemingly innocent RSS/site reading prefs as a data mine and selling it off.
OpenID options are much more viable solutions.
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Sorry, nothing to the story. I just like iminta. Though I will share I’m confused by a company that does a mostly self-funded formal Series A instead of just investing their own money like what is normally done and giving themselves shares. But that is all unqualified armchair speculation. I just been using iminta and enjoy it.
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Signed up for both FriendFeed and Spokeo today because of this post. Have to say, out of the box I like Spokeo better. Less work. and it doesn’t ask if it can email all my friends with yet another invitation. Just quietly scrubs social sites for my friends’ email addresses and delivers their feeds to me.
Agree with stega above, though … what WILL happen to all that lovely data I’ve been tagging and organizing for these nice companies?
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I also use Iminta.com!
I love it.
on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
My concern with all of these sites — you enter your email account password etc. — so these sites should be HIGH on any hacker’s list. Literally a treasure trove given that most people use the same (or a small set of) passwords over & over again.
Not to mention the privacy intrusions that can occur without you ever knowing it.
I’m staying away from all of them ….
And you may want to read this before posting your photos/videos to sites : http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/02/19/how-the-rights-to-your-photo-are-being-hijackedthrough-photo-contests-social-media/
on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 8:40 am
@Andy, these sites don’t ask you for your password for any of these services. They pick up data available publicly in rss feeds, atom feeds, and public apis. Delicious bookmarks, for example, are available to anyone that queries for them. Each individual site (well, most of them) have options to disable this feature.
Iminta.com lets you also choose who can see the data that it scripts. You can make all the information it picks up public (so anyone can see it) or you can share it with specific friends. But the important thing is that the data is already public, and if you don’t like it out there, then your beef is with Flickr, Youtube, etc. etc.
-Aaron (@ iminta.com)