Five Fantastic Friendfeed Filters for Flow
Friendfeed, it seems, isn't going mainstream anytime soon. That doesn't mean it doesn't rock. In fact, I am using it a ton as a real-time front end for in-bound social flow. The secret is to use three powerful features: lists, imaginary friends and saved searches. Combine these with email alerts and Gmail and it gets even better.
Here are five ideas...
- Co-workers - Group and track your colleagues
- Feeds - Follow your favorite feeds in Friendfeed (or groups of 'em via Google Reader tags)
- Influencers - find the top influencers on Friendfeed (or your own personal list) and bundle them
- News - Some news sources are already on Friendfeed, if not, you can put them there
- Tweets - set up a saved search for service:Twitter use Friendfeed as a Twitter front-end
These ideas just scratch the surface of what you can do with Friendfeed. For more see the gallery below. How are you using it?
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News, Tweets, and Influencers - similar to yours
Clients - With their approval, I have set up FF accounts for all my clients so I can easily monitor their activity on the web.
New York - Keep track of what's going on where I live
Music - Stay updated on the latest leaks
Sports - I have to know right away if something has happened with one of my favorite teams
Steven: What's in your new york one? (also a new yorker)
LISTS: a few geographic locations I want to hear from, leaders in my space, and one list I get the RSS feed for
GROUPS: a few around niches or topics I like. Created a few like /hurricanes and /hulu-new.
Biggest difference in groups and lists is that lists are made up of FF profiles, groups are made up of feeds outside FF.
I do have a few invisible friends for people who just won't join FF and at least publish their twitter there.