FriendFeed off to a good start

I just got an invitation to try out FriendFeed, and I think it's going to be a great service. FriendFeed fills a niche that I've wanted for awhile. It is basically a feed aggragator so that you can combine all of the feeds from your blog, flickr, twitter, Google Reader Shared Stuff, etc... In a single interface.

The service currently supports aggrigation from about 20 or so different sites right now, and you can see my FriendFeed embedded at the end of the post (click through if you are reading this in a feed reader).



The other aspect of FriendFeed is social. You can find / subscribe to your friends in the application to keep track of all of their stuff as well. It has some of the basic social-network discovery features like, email address, and recommendations. It doesn't have the "slurp your gmail contacts" feature that so many other social networking sites have, yet.

My favorite feature in the site is called, "imaginary friends" which allows you to subscribe to a friends feed, even if they aren't a user of the system.

There are some rough edges, but this is to be expected from a newly launched application. I think it's a great start, and am looking forward to playing with this more over the next few days.