FriendFeed: Just what we need (seriously)

If you (and your friends, family and colleagues) are all over the Internet on social networking sites like Facebook and twitter, photo sites like flickr or SmugMug, music sites like LastFM, or they blog on Blogger, or have their favorite books listed on GoodReads...how the heck do you keep up with them?

Enter FriendFeed: nearly a perfect solution. In 5 easy minutes you can register, link all of your own stuff together (the above PLUS Amazon.com wish lists, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, digg, LibraryThing, Linkedin, YouTube and much more) and invite friends from Facebook and your email accounts. Now, when someone signs in to your profile on FriendFeed they see all of your updates on one page: new photos, new songs, new twitter posts. It's fantastic!

There's a lot of muscle behind FriendFeed: folks who helped develop Google Maps and Gmail. Co-founder Bret Taylor, in an interview on Fast Company magazine's site, says they developed FriendFeed to be something other than a social networking site. "We come at it from the approach of solving an information problem, as opposed to creating a social network and solving people’s social problems." And, they seem to have succeeded.

If you've longed for a way to combine your friends' social sites into one easy to read, entertaining feed, it appears you've found it.

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