How I am using FriendFeed

Alexander Benker — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:13:30 +0000

This is how I’m using FriendFeed:

“Like” – quickly mark an entry as interesting
Items you liked are shown in your home feed and under “Me”, Tab “Comments and Likes”
Lists
- regular – for people I don’t want to miss
- qualified – for people I regularly interact with
- personal – for people I know in real life
- all – everyone
- + some topic specific lists
“Best-of-day/week/month” – very fast and efficient way to get an idea what was interesting today for the people I follow
“Imaginary Friends” – not everyone is on FriendFeed – follow them by creating their streams as an imaginary friend.
I also use imaginary friends for rss feeds like “twittersearch for gtd”
Rooms:
- private room for “all time favorites” – with comments like “research further”
- topic related rooms
one of my favorite FriendFeed feature: for shortened links (bit.ly, tinyurl, ..) FriendFeed shows the full url as mouse-over-text
Post to FriendFeed-bookmarklet (you can find it via “Tools”)
I really like the ability to include pictures in your post by just clicking on them – helps you remembering what this was all about. Any text marked on the page while clicking the bookmarklet is automatically set as comment
Twitter integration (via “Account” – “Feed publishing”):
I automatically post my entries from Google Reader, Diigo and FriendFeed to my twitter account

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