News: Over at Tech Crunch, Michael Arrington has a characteristically insightful analysis of the social networking aggregator site called FriendFeed, which basically attempts to collect all of one's user-generated postings -- from blogs to pics to videos to twitter drivel -- and provide a convenient aggregator for all of them so that friends can easily get them all through one feed. Hence the name: FriendFeed.
Arrington points out that FriendFeed may have competition from the counter-movement to make Web 2.0 sites allows its users to move their data from one site to the next -- data portability. So people might have all their stuff disaggregated over Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, flickr, twitter, etc, but you might be able to achieve the same centralized aggregation if your material can be moved freely within all of your sites. For example, let's say I can embed everything within this blog and feed it out to all my readers. That would be convenient, although I am not sure how many people would like to see my photos!
Analysis: I just signed up for FriendFeed and hope to try it out. I loved the photo of the Social Map by Loic Le Meur on Arrington's blog.
FriendFeed requires all the users friends to also be users of FriendFeed and have added all their feeds to FriendFeed as well. Then, the user must subscribe to all their friends.
Posted by: George | April 16, 2008 at 01:49 AM