FriendFeed is one of those great inventions that not enough people are using. Now that Facebook has purchased the real time feed aggregator, it’s a good moment to learn more about it. FriendFeed allows you to see at a glance everything that is going on in your social media networks, bookmarks and more, making it extremely useful for managing your online presence.
Why Use It
Everyone knows how important social media is these days, but if you’re signed up for more than 2 or 3 social media sites, it can be pretty difficult to stay on top of everything. Add to this your bookmark sites and assorted feeds from around the web and you have a very confusing hodgepodge of information that can be virtually impossible to keep track of. FriendFeed makes it possible to see everything that’s going on at a glance.
Getting Started
1. Set up an account.
2. Add your social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, etc.
3. Add bookmarking accounts from StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc.
4. Add blog feeds from your favorite blogs.
5. Find friends on FriendFeed and watch their feeds, too.
6. Start sharing your favorite feeds with others.
If you haven’t used FriendFeed before now, you aren’t alone. A number of guides have been created to help you understand FriendFeed and I’ve selected the absolute best to showcase here today.
Top FriendFeed Guides
Beginners
I Joined FriendFeed, Now What?
Top FriendFeed Tips for Twitter Users
Intermediate
25 Different uses for FriendFeed
Five Fantastic Friendfeed Filters for Flow
How to Use FriendFeed to Enhance & Organize Twitter Chats
7 Ways to Utilize FriendFeed Rooms
4 Ways to Enhance Your Blog With FriendFeed
Advanced
Did You Make the List? How I Use Lists to Organize My Life-Stream
15 Secrets of FriendFeed’s Power Users
FriendFeed Tips: Do You Use All The Great Features of Friend Feed
How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool
I've never used FriendFeed before. Thank you for this guide. I love the fact that you divided the guides in different levels. I'll jump on it right now.
Thanks for the great list! Here's another addition. I wrote this a few weeks ago and it's got a few good tips.
http://janetfouts.com/learn-friendfeed/
Thanks for pulling this together! The guides demystify FriendFeed beautifully–people need the why and the how when it comes to a new tool.
Great list, thanks! I haven't really used FriendFeed just because I've never understood how to. This will definitely help!
I'm glad to see people still interested in joining Friendfeed and this is a really good list of links. Thanks for including my guide. I also maintain a full list of other's guides here as well http://ff.im/47jWL
I'm glad to see people still interested in joining Friendfeed and this is a really good list of links. Thanks for including my guide. I also maintain a full list of other's guides here as well http://ff.im/47jWL