FriendFeed Helps Track Your Friends Online

FriendFeed, a service launched by several ex-Google employees, has just opened up into public beta. The site allows you to track your friend’s activity across many social networks like Digg, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and many more. All of your friends activities will be organized into one feed, similar to the news feed on Facebook.

When creating an account, you enter in your usernames for all of the social networks you are active on. This gives you a single page with all of your activity and the ability for other FriendFeed users to subscribe to all of your services at once. You can add other FriendFeed users, or create ‘imaginary’ friends for those that haven’t signed up. While this is definitely a nice feature, it is very time consuming. There’s no way to import friends from your social networks or to add multiple accounts at once. I wish they added an auto-discovery feature, similar to Spokeo, that would help cut down the setup time.

Overall I like FriendFeed. It’s design is much better than Spokeo’s, but it could use some more powerful features. It is still a great way to keep track of all your friends in one place.