For the past few months I’ve been beta-testing a new webservice called FriendFeed.

Do you publish information in many different web locations? Perhaps, like me, you have blog or two1, an account with a photo hosting service, music updates on LastFM, updates on Twitter or an instant messenger, a collection of links on del.icio.us, Google reader, Reddit or StumbleUpon, a wishlist on Amazon … you get the point. As a friend of yours, I’d love to be able to follow all of those, but I am unlikely to be able to subscribe to all of them and even less likely to follow all of these feeds.
Enter FriendFeed. FriendFeed lets you gather all of these feeds under one feed to which you friends can subscribe, and gives you the opportunity to subscribe to feeds from your friends. The site looks great and is incredibly easy to use2, integrates beautifully into Facebook and other services, and in the time since I first started using it has seen continuous improvement3 with new features appearing on a daily basis.
I have had nothing but joy using FriendFeed, and I hear the same from anyone else using the service. FriendFeed is now open to the public, and I’d like to encourage you go and give it a try. When you do, don’t forget to add me - my username is, of course, intellectronica.
1. Yes, LiveJournal is a blog too. Anything that publishes feeds in Atom or RSS format is, for that matter, actually.
2. The FriendFeed team includes, among others, some of the key developers of GMail, and it really shows!
3. FriendFeed is a commercial service, but the developers aren’t making a secret of their work - they even publish a feed of all the changes they make to the code running the application for your geeky pleasures.