Jun 17 2008
Flying with FriendFeed
I’ve been having a blast with Twitter. Really, I have. It can be challenging throwing out little nuggets of info updating my friends in 140 character chunks. When it’s working. I suppose that’s because it’s growing, more people are finding it useful, and I’m happy for Twitter, but something’s been bugging me for awhile.
I really want a place where I can get a lot of info, stay up to date with people, regardless of where they have a web presence. Twitter’s great if that’s the only place people post. But if a blog is involved (and a third-party application isn’t available) or Flickr or NetFlix or YouTube or Amazon… well, then I’m only getting a small glimpse, not the big picture, and can be missing some other useful items. Without sounding like I’m a stalker or being too nosy, that is.
So with that, I’ve started to get a little more funky with FriendFeed. It’s pretty much a catchall, a place where I can get a whole lotta info from friends and press a button and have other social networks up-to-date in one fell swoop. There’s a little bit of some getting used to, but I’m having fun. One can get lost in comments or going through links left by friends of friends, but it’s a good kind of lost.
Earlier, Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles posted There Must Be 50 Ways To Leave Your Twitter which is a pretty helpful how-to if you’re very heavy into Twitter and want to make the transition to FriendFeed. There were a couple items I found very useful and for that I say thanks, Dave.
I haven’t left Twitter completely, but my posts and replies are written in FriendFeed and show up in Twitter based on TwitterFeed’s settings. I’ve even made some ‘imaginary friends’ based on their Twitter handles so that their Tweets would show up in my FriendFeed. Should be interesting to see if they ‘become real’ if they sign up with the same username.
Give it a shot. The fact that it’s more robust is a turn on for me. Doesn’t cost anything to try it, I figure.
