Friend Feed - A Site Worth Joining
With FriendFeed you can find out what your friends are doing on the web. Share discoveries of movies, videos, websites, and photographs! You can also make rooms to discuss your interests and endeavors in. You could even make a private room for everyone in your family to hang out in, sharing web activities and family fun times.
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Check it out: FriendFeed
What you'll find here:
- Feed your feeds to FriendFeed!
- Make friends on FriendFeed
- Add your FriendFeed link
- Connect With Some Top Bloggers on FriendFeed
- Make rooms on FriendFeed
- Join Some FriendFeed Rooms
- Make a newsroom on FriendFeed
- Add Video to Your News Room
- Marketing to the Social Web
- Use Web 2.0 sites to plug your business
- Use Ping.fm to Update Your FriendFeed
- Social Media Marketing
- What bloggers are saying about FriendFeed
- Social Media Marketing
- Lensmastery by Linda - my Squidoo tips blog
- Love This Lens?
- My social media sites
Feed your feeds to FriendFeed!
These are sites supported by FriendFeed as of December 2008:
- 12 Seconds - Share what you're doing with short video status updates.
- Amazon.com - Books and so much more.
- Backtype - Find, follow, and share comments on the web.
- Blog - Your blog, Squidoo feed, etc..
- brightkite.com - A location based social media network.
- del.icio.us - Social bookmarking.
- Digg - Social bookmarking.
- Diigo A shared research site.
- DisqusTurn blog comments into web-wide discussion.
- Facebook - Social media site.
- Flickr - Photo sharing.
- Furl - Social bookmarking.
- Gmail/Google Talk - IM, Gmail notifications, pc to pc calls, and file transfers.
- Goodreads - Book discussion social media site.
- Google Reader - A news reader.
- Google Shared Stuff - Share with your friends.
- Identi.ca - Micro-blogging.
- iLike - Share music information and playlists.
- Intense Debate - Comment enhancement for your blog.
- Jaiku - Micro-blogging.
- Joost - Music, videos, TV, movies.
- Last.fm - Music, video, radio, events, charts.
- LibraryThing - Book discussion social media site.
- LinkedIn - Professional networking.
- Ma.gnolia - Social bookmarking.
- Mister Wong - Social bookmarking.
- Mixx - Social bookmarking.
- Netflix - Movie rentals.
- Netvibes - Personalized start page.
- Pandora - Free internet radio.
- Picasa Web Albums - Photo sharing.
- Plurk - Micro-blogging.
- Polyvore - Mix and match outfits.
- Pownce - Micro-blogging with files and events.
- Reddit - Social bookmarking.
- Seesmic - Video micro-blogging.
- SlideShare - Share Power Point presentations.
- SmugMug - Photo sharing.
- StumbleUpon - Social bookmarking and photo sharing.
- tipjoy - Get donations for your site.
- Tumblr - Blogging site.
- Twine - Organize and share information.
- Twitter - Micro-blogging.
- Upcoming - Events and things to do.
- Vimeo - Movie sharing.
- Wakoopa - Discover software and games.
- Yelp - Business reviews from consumers.
- YouTube - Movie sharing.
- Zooomr - Photo sharing.
Make comments on FriendFeed
Make friends on FriendFeed
When you add a friend on FriendFeed, you can also create a custom list to categorize that person in. Here you see I'm including Mac Creevy in a custom list for Squidoo because I recognize him from this site.
The link for my Squidoo friends list is in the top-left corner of every FriendFeed page I view.
Add your FriendFeed link
LindaJM on FriendFeed
Includes my Squidoo and Twitter feeds, my Netflix more...3 points
John Dilbeck - FriendFeed
News and views on affiliate marketing, Internet to more...3 points
seedplanter - FriendFeed
Includes my blogs, Twitter, and Squidoo lenses3 points
thefluffanutta - FriendFeed
3 points
Kiwisoutback - FriendFeed
My blog, Squidoo lenses...3 points
What is Joshua Knowles doing online?
2 points
Cathryn Gray - FriendFeed
Includes my blog and social networking sites. I'm more...2 points
Jana Murray - FriendFeed
2 points
Rick Wales - FriendFeed
I'm very active on Squidoo where I am a Squid Ange more...2 points
MiMi (GrowWear) FriendFeed
My blog updates, my Tweets, my squidcasts and squi more...2 points
Johann The Dog - FriendFeed
1 point
Glenna - FriendFeed
Twitter, Stumbleupon, Delicious, etc. I get as ma more...1 point
Chris - FriendFeed
Includes my blog, websites and more1 point
Christopher - FriendFeed
Includes My Blogs for Gamers1 point
Jennifer Akers - FriendFeed
My blogs, Squidoo lenses, Twitter, online marketin more...1 point
MeghnaK - FriendFeed
My Twitter feeds, Squidoo and Stumbleupon....1 point
Connect With Some Top Bloggers on FriendFeed
Seth Godin - FriendFeed
2 points
Maki - FriendFeed
2 points
Darren Rowse - FriendFeed
2 points
Chris Pirillo - FriendFeed
1 point
Susan Mernit - FriendFeed
1 point
Robert Scoble - FriendFeed
1 point
Stephanie Booth - FriendFeed
1 point
Chris Brogan - FriendFeed
1 point
Adam Ostrow - FriendFeed
1 point
Scott Beale - FriendFeed
1 point
Kevin Rose - FriendFeed
0 points
Liz Gannes - FriendFeed
0 points
Richard - FriendFeed
0 points
Make rooms on FriendFeed
One of my favorite FriendFeed rooms is Social Media.
Join Some FriendFeed Rooms
Squidoo News - FriendFeed
Blog posts and other news sources about Squidoo.2 points
Startup Success - FriendFeed
0 points
ProBlogger - FriendFeed
ProBlogger.net's Room on FriendFeed - a place for discussing all things Professional Blogging0 points
Social Media - FriendFeed
Have something to share or something to say related to social media? Join the conversation here and let's get social!0 points
Black Book - FriendFeed
Creative forum.0 points
Foods - FriendFeed
Good food, great food, expensive food, ghetto food, bad food, junk food...0 points
Lifehack - FriendFeed
A room for Lifehack and Productivity related.0 points
FriendFeed News - FriendFeed
The latest updates, blogs and news stories about FriendFeed.0 points
Bigfoot News - FriendFeed
Read and comment on Bigfoot news and blog postings.0 points
All Things Google - FriendFeed
Google news, apps, features, and easter eggs. Everything related to Google (the company and its products.)0 points
Web Strategy Workshop - FriendFeed
Web Strategy Workshop room has links, discussions, and blogs about Web Strategy including building community, internet marketing, findability, and soc...0 points
Make a newsroom on FriendFeed
...my topic is Squidoo!
1. Create a new room called "[Your Topic] News" or something similar that works well for you.
2. Import blog feeds from blogs on your topic.
Sample blog feed urls:
Blogger.Com: http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com
WordPress: http://www.BLOGNAME.com/feed
3. Create Google news feeds on your topic.
Here's a sample Google News feed url:
http://news.google.com/news?q=YOUR-TOPIC&ie=UTF-8
4. Create a YouTube feed on your topic.
Here's a sample YouTube feed url:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq=YOUR-TOPIC
5. Invite people to join you in the room for conversation on the news of the day.
Add Video to Your News Room
...use a YouTube feed!
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?orderby=updated&vq=bigfoot
I placed this into my room using the 'add blog rss' feature. Works great! Now if I want to see every video on YouTube tagged 'bigfoot' I go to my Bigfoot News Room and click on the little orange rss symbol that corresponds to the YouTube feed. I get a list of all the Bigfoot videos and can watch them right there on my FriendFeed News Room page!
For more ideas on using YouTube, go to YouTube Feeds.
Tribes
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/14/2009)
From the inside cover:
"The Web can do amazing things, but it can't provide leadership. That still has to come from individuals -- people just like you who have passion about something." - Seth Godin
Marketing to the Social Web
by Larry Weber
Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business
Amazon Price: (as of 12/14/2009)
From the jacket flap:
In order to use the Internet to its full marketing potential, executives must open their minds to new possibilities, embrace social change, and rethink best practices. Rather than broadcast messages to audiences, savvy marketers will participate in, organize, and encourage social networks to which people want to belong, striking up a dialog with and between customers. Networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even Flickr are the perfect forums for this new dialog; Marketing to the Social Web shows you how to tap into it.
Follow people on FriendFeed
Your relationship with FriendFeed
Use Web 2.0 sites to plug your business
Plug Your Business! Marketing on MySpace, YouTube, blogs and podcasts and other Web 2.0 social networks
Amazon Price: $17.05 (as of 12/14/2009)
An easy read, full of ideas for promoting your business using Web 2.0 sites. If your goal is to build your customer base one at a time capturing that oh-so-sought-after word-of-mouth advertising, this book will help you do it. Learn the many rules of maintaining a popular blog - what readers like and what they don't. Learn about blog tours, social media, MySpace, pay-per-click advertising, and much more.
Use Ping.fm to Update Your FriendFeed
Ping.fm is a new social media update service that can help you update FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other social media sites all in one swoop.-
How to Use Ping.fm to Save Time on Use of Social Media Sites
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Ping.fm can help you deal with social media updates. Instead of visiting each social media site separately to post updates, you can post one update at Ping.fm and not have to waste any more time. We all know how valuable social media sites are to us...
Your opinions on FriendFeed
Do you think this site is worth participating in?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, there are advantages to participating in FriendFeed.
CleanerLife says:
People are buzzing about FriendFeed all of a sudden! I've been adding more friends, and using it to enhance my Twitter experience since most of the people I'm following on FF are also on Twitter, and they are sending their tweets to their FF account.
Posted May 03, 2009
seedplanter says:
It sure can't hurt! I've registered and gathered a few friends. I like the convenience of having all my eggs in one basket--it seems like it'll be a big time saver. I had no idea FriendFeed existed until this lens. Thanks, Linda.
Posted November 24, 2008
Jewelsofawe says:
I am not sure what I think though I do have it, I don't use it much
Posted November 12, 2008
Gandree says:
Definitely. Friendfeed helps to keep you from being overwhelmed by the social sites. It's fun to see what you and your friends have recommended.
Posted October 21, 2008
No, it is a waste of time.
My Friend Feed
...the last five entries
This should give you an idea of what Friend Feed does. It collects information from many other feeds and puts them together on a page where you can make comments about them. Other people who see your feed can make comments there too.
By the way, if you want to add your Friend Feed to your Squidoo lenses, this is done with the RSS module. At the bottom of the Friend Feed page you'll see an orange RSS link. Copy that link, then import it to your Squidoo RSS module.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byYou're invited to follow me on Friend Feed
Go to my Friend Feed: LindaJM's Friend Feed and click on my "Subscribe To" link at the top of the page.
Friend Feed Links
- Friend Feed
- Friend Feed main page.
- FriendFeed - FAQ
- The FriendFeed FAQ (Fully Answered Questions).
- Who is reading your feed page
- After logging on to FriendFeed go to your stats page.
- Find Others
- By going to your recommended links page you'll find others who your friends are connected to.
- FriendFeed - Tools
- For when you need that extra something, here are some ways to customize your FriendFeed experience, make it a little easier, and maybe even have more fun.
- The FriendFeed Discussion Group
- A discussion group at Google. Get some questions answered!
The FriendBlog, from FriendFeed Staffers
While you're at FriendFeed, don't forget to stop by the FriendBlog once in a while to read about the new FF features.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySocial Media Marketing
Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/14/2009)
What bloggers are saying about FriendFeed
- FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
- If you haven't been keeping up with the noise, FriendFeed is the hot startup of the minute.
- Scobleizer - I Love My FriendFeed
- I love my FriendFeed. Here's a list of top bloggers who are using the service.
- FriendFeed v. Social Thing
- In the past year there has been an explosion in social media.
- 10 Reasons Why FriendFeed Will Beat Out the Competition
- Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has come a long way in a short time. Here are 10 reasons FriendFeed will beat out their competition.
- 5 FriendFeed Rooms To Get The Party Started
- We recently wrote up the news about FriendFeed adding the ability to create rooms, and how it will allow you to discuss news items related to your topic.
- Interview: Zee The FriendFeed King | Secret Women's Business Network
- Where better to learn about FriendFeed room creation but from the creator of the top four popular FriendFeed rooms, Zee (Ziad M Kane). I interviewed Zee to
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 12/14/2009)
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Aug 29, 2009 @ 8:36 am
- I'd heard of Friendfeed but never knew what it was until now. Thanks for explaining it so well.
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- stargazer00 stargazer00 Jun 11, 2009 @ 10:21 am
- Never heard of it till now. If it makes social media less overwhelming, I'm for it!
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- TheGreenerMe TheGreenerMe Jun 9, 2009 @ 8:57 am
- I've heard a lot about FriendFeed but I haven't joined yet. It seems like a good idea to further your social networking and organize it. Great work!
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- GrowWear GrowWear May 29, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
- I like FF and have just returned from there having added RSS feeds of my lenses and RSS feeds of my squidcasts and the squidcasts of others. Just may prove very useful!
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- Angel31 Angel31 May 25, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
- I will def be adding this one to my bag of goodies ...lol : )
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