One of my favorite Friendfeed features is called "Best of Day." I use it all the time to hone in on the most liked/commented conversations. If you're logged into Friendfeed, you can hit this link to see the most interesting conversations from your friends over the last 24 hours or this one for the past seven days. The problem with the feature, however, is that it only worked across all of your friends. This can be problematic if you follow hundreds of people, as I do.
Last night, however, Friendfeed quietly added a killer feature that brings "Best of Day" to lists - groupings of friends you categorize. Now you can more easily spot trends from friends. The screen grab below shows you the most interesting items over the last month just within my "favorites" list. This smart filtering of content plus the recent addition of real-time search on Friendfeed is exactly what those of us who participate in the social web need.
This incremental innovation gives me just another reason to be excited about Friendfeed. It's also why I love Gmail, Posterous and Evernote. They constantly keep innovating all the time even through the tough times.
Friendfeed Brings "Best of Day" to Lists, Helps You Spot Trends from Friends
9 comments
Jul 03, 2009
James Stratford said...
You caught that change fast and thanks for pointing out "the new grouping for friends you categorize" Your presence on Posterous definitely seems to be working. It's handy to be able to comment traditionally, posterous, or twitter. together they will only work to create more exposure and buzz. Thanks for a good example of how to utilize not only the new feature on FriendFeed, but on Posterous as well.
Jul 03, 2009
Steve Rubel said...
@James, you bet. More to come.
Jul 03, 2009
Brandon said...
Great find Steve! Thank you for this:-).
Jul 03, 2009
Liza Sperling said...
Great find. Thank you. Friendfeed is easier to adopt when also following your tips.
Jul 04, 2009
Joan Vinall-Cox said...
You are my teacher. I set up on both Posterous and FriendFeed months ago when you first mentioned them, but didn't see how they were useful. But I've taken your advice before, and found it good. When you started referring to and explaining why you like both this spring, I started playing more with them. And once again, your tips on communication on/with the web are right on. Thanks, teach! ;-
Jul 04, 2009
Chris Sparno said...
Nice tip - I need to start using FriendFeed more. I might change up my workflow to give FF a more prominent role. Would love to hear more about how you use FF on a daily basis.
Jul 06, 2009
mariana soffer said...
I think there should be made many more implamentations of filters and application to manage content and friends
Jul 09, 2009
Jose Paul Martin said...
Steve, since u also use Gmail as your nevrve center... just wondering if u've used http://toread.cc/ - they also have a good list of "newstoread" based on what people bookmark/email to read...
Jul 09, 2009
Steve Rubel said...
@Jose I have tried it. Neat service.
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