FriendFeed Consolidates Social Media Activities
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Written By Miguel Cancino | October 2, 2007 | Share This
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The New York Times reported the beta launch yesterday of FriendFeed, a new social site that consolidates your friends’ activities on the Web into a single ‘Feed’. Says founder Bret Taylor,
“[FriendFeed] gives you a snapshot of what people you know think is interesting. It’s kind of a blog that writes itself.”
FriendFeed currently supports 23 social web services, including Digg, Flickr, YouTube, and Last.fm. Users create their own network of friends whose activity updates can be tracked in a continuous stream of notifications. The streaming content can be embedded within user’s Facebook pages or their personal web page or blog.
FriendFeed is not the first social media site to allow users to distribute their internet-activity with friends. Similar services like Kaboodle (shopping) and Google’s Shared Stuff have already carved a niche in this voyeuristic market. FriendFeed is hoping that their simple and effortless sharing process (users don’t have to do anything to share updates) will lead to the site’s success. Writes the New York Times,
“The creators of FriendFeed say their system is intended to be as simple as possible. ‘I like this because it doesn’t require me to do anything new,’ Mr. Taylor said.”
Though a compelling concept, FriendFeed’s automatic updates could provoke privacy concerns among wary users. Unless FriendFeed implements comprehensive privacy settings for their site announcements, I doubt many Feeders will be eager to ‘automatically’ broadcast their personal information.
Topics: Facebook, Flickr, RSS, Social Media, Technology |
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