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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10 comments

Jul 10, 2009

Justin Korn said...

Nice short concise write up. I recently wrote up how I use FriendFeed to track real-time updates and keep on top of what is going on around the web (http://bit.ly/W6SHe) Probably one of the most useful tactics I've found for my social flow.

Jul 10, 2009

Sean Andersen said...

Thanks Steve. I'm always looking for better ways to show friends the power of friendfeed.

Jul 10, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

Aewesome and creative use of ff. Thx for the tips.

Jul 10, 2009

Dave Lucas said...

Thanks Steve! You've done it again, as you usually do!

Jul 10, 2009

Steven Melfi said...

I have been using a similar set up with FriendFeed:

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

Jul 10, 2009

Ted Roden said...

I tried to do the google reader one last week, but I couldn't stand all the links being "Google Reader" or whatever the friend was called.

Jul 10, 2009

Ted Roden said...

I'd love to see what sources people are using for things. Anyone care to share?

Steven: What's in your new york one? (also a new yorker)

Jul 11, 2009

Johannes Rummelhoff said...

this may actually push me into using friendfeed again. thx for great insight.

Jul 11, 2009

Rob Williams said...

I have a few lists and groups I'm using.

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.

Jul 12, 2009

Carissa said...

AWESOME!!! I too decided friendfeed is perfect to FILTER ALL The social media stuff.. What I want to know is... does NING link to it yet??

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