FriendFeed Rooms... get one?
You can now “get a room” on FriendFeed. FriendFeed, if you’re not familiar, is the fast growing aggregator of all of your — and your friends’ — “social” activity on the web.
Think about pulling together, into one place, feeds of all of your microblogging posts on Twitter, Jaiku or Pownce; Amazon wishlist updates; blog posts; story voting / submissions on Digg, reddit, Yelp; comments on other people’s blogs via Disqus; Flickr and Picasa pictures, stories shared on Google Reader; music via ilike, Last.fm or Pandora; videos from YouTube, Vimeo; your favorite websites via stumbleupon, upcoming or delicious; and more. FriendFeed streams all of that together in a feed so your online friends can track your every move. FriendFeed then takes is a step further by pulling your feed together with all of your friends feeds.
The result is a river of commentary, links, ruminations and updates that you and your friends can try to keep up with and to which you can even add additional comments.
FriendFeed is actually a powerful tool to help you keep up to date on the conversations and people you’re interested in. In my case, that means new media influentials — they’re all there. It is gold for the early-adopter set who what to be in the know on the latest and greatest new sites, offerings and gossip in the tech space. If you’re trying to get TechCrunched, following Arrington, Scoble, Cashmore and the rest on FriendFeed is a great way to get visibility into what they are interested in.
A FriendFeed Room is basically a mini FriendFeed. Users can make a room public or private, designate where posted content shows up in FriendFeed. You can even choose whether you want stuff in a particular room to show up in your main feed or not. more on the FriendFeed blog.
To continure the analogy of “a river of content” from above, FriendFeed Rooms basically give you your own tributary where you control who can see what you discuss. The jury is out on Rooms and whether they take off or not. I don’t see them blowing up anytime soon. Most of the people I come across on FF are there to be public and to engage in a public conversation. Time will tell.
What is clear to me is FriendFeed is quickly turning into my new Facebook — the place I go to keep up with my friends and what they’re up to. The best part? I have yet to be bitten by a vampire.
