Popular online activity-monitoring service FriendFeed just announced IM integration and the way they implemented it is really smart. I'm now getting an IM every time someone comments on one of my items in FriendFeed, and I can reply with a comment on that very same item from inside my IM client. It's a great way to keep on top of conversations and keep them flowing.
If you've never used FriendFeed before, it's a must-see application for sharing and discussing cool stuff on the web. This new feature addition is going to make it even better.
Here's a tour of what we at ReadWriteWeb are up to on FriendFeed.
These simple, smart settings offer a whole lot of powerful possibilities. I've never set up particular bundles of friends on FriendFeed, but now that I could get just items from them on IM, I probably will for co-workers, trailblazers, etc.
The way that the company handled commenting on multiple items, by assigning a number to each and requiring an @# reply, is really smart.
Making it this friction-free to monitor and contribute to conversations has the potential to increase participation in FriendFeed by orders of magnitude.
There's no way to get an IM when someone "likes" an item, which would be a nice option to have.
Unfortunately, there's still no ability to subscribe to searches inside FriendFeed. We would really like to get IMs from FriendFeed when anyone on the service mentions our new site Jobwire, and we'd like to be able to post a reply to them from inside IM as well. Not yet, though!
So come join us on FriendFeed and we can discuss the awesome things we find online - instantly!
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Very cool. This might be the feature that actually gets me back to monitoring FriendFeed on a regular basis.
Posted by: J.J. | November 7, 2008 1:12 PM
Laconi.ca has had this feature since they launched; so friend feed has not done anything new....they only added/copied an existing feature of a competitor; something the seem to do well.
Friend Feed is not Open Source and therefore in my view is not "Open"....in this case they are "Open" in a myspace or facebook style...They want your actions and your content to raise their valuation in in return they will give you nothing; not even the source code to the application that you have given value. To me Friend Feed as nothing more than web 2.0 Share cropping system.
We are going to take on Friend Feed as well as Twitter. Our Application is Open Source and we also give part of our revenue back the community....
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Posted by: william | November 8, 2008 1:01 AM
Nice idea about getting notifications on mention of a particular word...
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November 8, 2008 7:24 AM
Excellent idea :)
Posted by: dc crowley | November 8, 2008 8:20 AM
you write an article on FriendFeed and link everywhere but to your account on FriendFeed. brilliant.
Posted by: Mark | November 8, 2008 11:25 AM
RWW could - and should - do an in-depth piece on all the excellent integration work FriendFeed does.
Their registration process is smooth and fast; it can hook into so many of my other activities online WITHOUT the need for my password.
Please dig in there, gentlefolk, and tell us how it's done.
Posted by: smcnally | November 8, 2008 12:03 PM
This seems like a neat way of tracking when people leave comments on stuff.
Posted by: matt | November 8, 2008 1:13 PM
FriendFeed IM now supports notification when a comment comes in on your own postings or your friend's comments. In other words, it's now more useful.
Posted by: Phil Glockner | November 8, 2008 1:56 PM
Very nice. Explaining Lifestreaming and it's uses to our clients was not a easy job.
So we created this Interactive Flash Animation on the Lifestreaming - http://vizedu.com/2008/12/lifestreaming-what-why-and-how/
Just thought you might be interested.
Posted by: sandeep arora | December 1, 2008 3:57 AM