connect faster and learn more with friend feed
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Your online presence is fragmented. Splice the pieces back together with a personal lifestream.TRANSCRIPT
Connect faster and learn more with FriendFeed
#BCMem 08-Nov-2008 1pmjoin in: tinyurl.com/connectandlearn
Welcome to the session!
Thanks for attending everyone! Contact me @dpritchett on Twitter if you'd like to add something.
I'm Daniel J. Pritchett. I write a blog on collaboration and community engagement at SharingAtWork.com. I work in software engineering for International Paper.
So what's FriendFeed?
FriendFeed is a lifestream
FriendFeed is a social network
First glance: Lifestreaming
Your online presence is fragmented. Splice the pieces back together with a personal lifestream.
Joe Spake's lifestream
FriendFeed as a social network
Subscribe to a few Memphians on FriendFeed and your main page will weave their streams together. You'll be following multiple people in chronological order.
Most importantly, you'll also see items submitted by non-friends. These show up in your feed when your buddies share them by clicking "Like".
Effortless friend of friend connections
Drown yourself in information
Read and share to FriendFeed rooms devoted to different topics.
Watch rooms or lists in the new real-time view
Subscribe to any FriendFeeder who shows an interest in the topics you care about
Create imaginary friends to track a lifestream for someone who doesn't have their own FF stream
Dip into the Everyone page to drink updates from all FF users
Now, make FriendFeed work for you
Reshape the river of content
Use lists to group your subscriptions by content like People who live in Memphis, People who work for FedEx, or People who willingly talk with me about college football on the Internet
Curate and publish your own topics
Participate in moderated groups
Trade ideas with thought leaders
Crowdsource your ideas
Search your own archives - or everyone's
Where do I go from here?
Connect on the go with friendfeed.com/iphone or FFtoGo.com
Identify interesting people with FFHolic.com and other FriendFeed recommendation tools
Become a cool hunter by sharing wonderful things to FriendFeed via Del.icio.us bookmarks, Google Reader shared items, YouTube favorites, and more
Extend a conversation from Twitter to FriendFeed and back
How will you use FriendFeed?Let's talk about some things you'd
like to do on FriendFeed and how to make them happen.
Add your own ideas here
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• Yahoo pipes allow you to splice together feeds in fun ways• Feedburner provides good RSS enhancement and tracking
options• FriendFeed offers widgets as a way to share out the
streams you've created• Not sure you can suppress comments on FF