Friendfeed is a lot more useful than I thought....

Friendfeed

I have been a big Twitter user since it first came out. I probably get more that 50% of my tech news from my friends on Twitter and probably more that 80% of the really good tech news.

A lot of my contacts have recently been switching over to Friendfeed and quite honestly I just did not get it. I understood the aggregation of all my social feeds would be valuable and I liked the rooms idea. But it just was not enough for me to make the switch.

Robert Scoble wrote a really good blog and video about Friendfeed yesterday and now I total get the advantage. Take a look at this:

http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/28/20-ways-to-being-a-bigger-friendfeed-monster-than-guy-kawasaki/

This article gives you some great tips on how to use Friendfeed and also explains some of the applications weirdness. Here are a couple of other things I did that are nice too:

I set the setting to write back to Twitter, so now everything that I hits my Friendfeed is automatically updated on Twitter.

I have set up the RSS feed to my Newsvine blog to post to the Friendfeed.

I setup an RSS feed in my Google Reader so that now every time I share an article to my public feed it updates Friendfeed.

If you go to the right side of the screen, you will see a link called "show realtime feed". If you set that you will see a new option called display mini-feed. I leave this running on my desktop to see a live feed of all my friends updates.

I set up my iPhone to post pictures automatically to my Friendfeed.

If anyone has other tips, please leave them in the comments.

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