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The web allows us to keep in touch with our friends in so many ways today. When I log into , I am immediately greeted with a news feed of activity.

Facebook News Feed

Users can update their status too. So whether you like it or not, you know what they are doing.

is only status:

A can also see what people are sharing with Pownce:

Pownce

I can always login to to see new photos uploaded by my contacts:

Flickr stream

I can track what music my friends are listening to in real time with Last.fm:

ast.fm

I can even see which bookmarks that 30 or my nerdy friends are saving on del.icio.us:

Delicious

The cool new product of 2008 is the friend feed aggregator. These are services that pull all of this social data into one feed for you convenience. Socialthing, Friend Feed, and Iminta are just a few of these products. I like em, but I prefer logging in to each individual service to keep up with the hustle and bustle that is my network.

Is Google working on an ?

This is an advancement of web 2.0. We are moving towards the semantic web, where everything will gel into one interface. I am kinda excited about it.

This “data revolution” is fun, but also dangerous. On the other hand, only a select percentage of the population is participating in this social web. Imagine if everybody did.

This entry was written by Andrew Mager, posted on March 15, 2008 at 11:54 am, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
  • http://immike.net Mike Malone

    Honestly, I don’t really see the use in these aggregator services like friendfeed and socialthing. They’re really just glorified feed readers. There’s an argument that only nerds understand feed readers… but there’s a simple counter: only nerds track friends across six or seven web sites & need an aggregator like this.

  • http://immike.net Mike Malone

    Honestly, I don’t really see the use in these aggregator services like friendfeed and socialthing. They’re really just glorified feed readers. There’s an argument that only nerds understand feed readers… but there’s a simple counter: only nerds track friends across six or seven web sites & need an aggregator like this.

  • http://blog.kevincupp.com Kevin Cupp

    Haha, what? You don’t like knowing when Taylor writes on my wall? (your news feed) ;)

  • http://blog.kevincupp.com Kevin Cupp

    Haha, what? You don’t like knowing when Taylor writes on my wall? (your news feed) ;)

  • https://andrewmager.com me

    I actually closed it so I could get more stuff in the screenshot :)

  • https://andrewmager.com me

    I actually closed it so I could get more stuff in the screenshot :)

  • http://www.leftsider.com Leftsider

    I can remember saying the same thing…

    (I like this new way of catching up but I think something is lost when you don’t visit directly)

    …about RSS feeds. Perhaps with a little more development and a few strong examples we’ll be aggregating like it’s the normal thing.

  • http://www.leftsider.com Leftsider

    I can remember saying the same thing…

    (I like this new way of catching up but I think something is lost when you don’t visit directly)

    …about RSS feeds. Perhaps with a little more development and a few strong examples we’ll be aggregating like it’s the normal thing.

  • https://andrewmager.com me

    Some say that for every social network you join, you lose a small percentage of your network because people don’t move to the new network with you.

    I think all this information will soon become too much to process.

  • https://andrewmager.com me

    Some say that for every social network you join, you lose a small percentage of your network because people don’t move to the new network with you.

    I think all this information will soon become too much to process.

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    only nerds track friends across six or seven web sites & need an aggregator like this.

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