FriendFeed & Activity Streams |
FriendFeed is a social site which allows you to link activity streams from RSS syndicates from nearly all of the most popular social sites, into one service. Popular services include Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, Custom RSS, Digg, Delicious, Last.fm, StumbleUpon, etc. The value of FriendFeed is that if you make sure that you don't cross post, you can pretty much feed you RSS streams from one service into another service automatically.
For example, one of the ways I use FriendFeed is to audio tweet. I have Last.fm iTunes scrobbler software installed on my computer, smartphone device, etc. Every time I listen to more than 50% of a song, the song updates on my Last.fm activity stream. Because I have Last.fm hooked up to my FriendFeed, I am then able to link the stream to Twitter to automatically Tweet every so often and update my Twitter with my activities, and thus I am able to basically Tweet just by listening to music.
There are other pluses to using FriendFeed to streamline your RSS feeds from various sites as well. If you link your FriendFeed RSS into Feedburner, I have noticed that you get much better statistics from Feedburner in terms of the number of people who have subscribed to you RSS feed. This is really useful because Google Analytics does not track your RSS statistics but FeedBurner does, and also allows you to slipstream in Google AdWords ads if you so choose.
Check out FriendFeed's website, and sign up for an account to really empower your RSS activity.
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