The popular real-time feed aggregator, FriendFeed, can bring a bit of traffic to a blog. As of today, FriendFeed’s Kevin Fox has announced it is adding its subscriber count to the number of RSS subscribers.
Site admins should start seeing a spike, possibly very significant, in the amount of RSS subscribers to their feed. It will [...]
I think some people miss the point of Friendfeed, just like they miss the point of Facebook or any other social network. A social network is all about networking and reciprocating. It’s all about talking to one another. But if you subscribe to someone and they don’t return the favour, that isn’t networking, that’s just being downright rude. It’s like standing in the middle of a street and talking to a brick wall. It also defeats the whole point of social networking in the first place.
If you too got fed up with the whale carrying birds, then you must have turned you attention and free time to another micro-blogging platform. First came Jaiku, then Pownce, after which people started turning to Twitter. When the whale failed ashore, we turned our attention to Plurk. Not a new player has come [...]
As Friendfeed starts to get better and better, and people start to contribute more to the site, users will increasingly want to find ways to export that valuable data back to their own blogs. After all, if you’re the webmaster of your own blog, your obvious first priority is to drive that traffic back to your own site. More traffic equals more pageviews and more pageviews equals more Adsense clicks and more RSS subscribers. So it makes sense that you would want that bustling Friendfeed activity to be moved over to your own domain.
Luckily a couple of Friendfeed users have been hard at work dealing with that very issue and if you have a blog hosted on either Blogger or Wordpress, then you are in luck. The Blogger method is much easier as it is just a simple copy and paste. The Wordpress method has a bit more to it. But nevertheless, both methods have so far been receiving glowing reviews and I will shortly be installing the Wordpress version on my own blog to capture some of that Friendfeed magic for myself.
My favourite social networking site at the moment is without a doubt Friendfeed (but of course that is subject to immediate change if the “Next Big Thing” should rear its big ugly head).
But as with everything else on the internet, Friendfeed isn’t perfect by any means. Just like everyone else, I have [...]
