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By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:44:52 +0000

RSS isn't really even “mainstream” yet so it's easy to forget that FriendFeed is still very much “edge” social media app.

I think in a few years people like your boss will be actively using FF (or a FF competitor) for info-sharing and work-related research, your mum / my moms *might* be using it to share pics, and so on. It's such a flexible platform, and the feature roll outs on it have been pretty near flawless thus far.

By: andymurd

andymurd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:40:53 +0000

Thanks Eric, my use of RSS like this is far from original but it works well for me. I see RSS as a useful layer in an N-tier architecture. I think that architecture is missing really useful endpoints for RSS – widgets, tumblr, iGoogle, myYahoo! etc are OK but not *must have* yet.

It will happen though, FriendFeed is damn close to perfect but it's a service that you have to use before you love it. My boss is not convinced, nor is my mum – when they “get” aggregation the service that provides it will be huge.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:04 +0000

Ah, saw your note on FF that feedheads is a facebook app

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0000

That was definitely my next question and my answer is: yes I'd love to see that. Maybe have a simple toggle that lets you “coalesce” around something like a 24-hour period. Or maybe even use FF's day / week / month model which they use to see “best of” right now.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:55:41 +0000

Great use of RSS Andy !

I've been thinking a lot about the potential for RSS with relation to custom search and content aggregation lately. I think there's HUGE value to be provided in this space.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:53:58 +0000

Yeah, that'll be a staple of how I use FriendFeed with relation to my own stories from now on, thanks !

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:53:18 +0000

I noticed something similar on Duncan Riley's Inquisitr, really liked the notion of including friendfeed convos back on the homesite. Anyone know of a hack to grab code to do that?

Like I noted above, I'm lazy. Well, and busy too. Yeah, that latter bit.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Looks like feedheads hasn't launched yet, or not quite yet on PC?

I like rssmeme and readburner… but I'd really love an aggregated way to see shares/comments/likes on friendfeed itself. Searching by headline — which I stumbled across while writing this piece — seems to be the best way for now.

And if that's how the omnipresent do it, then I feel good rolling that way myself.

By: DGentry

DGentry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:52:02 +0000

Should Friendfeed coalesce duplicate shares of the same article into a single entry with a single comment stream, especially if the shares occur at roughly the same time?