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More FriendFeed Options
Linda offers some more discoveries she made at Friendfeed as she followed Karoli's advice from last week.
Last week, guest writer Karoli Kuns offered readers an introduction to Friendfeed. Whether this social media tool will replace Twitter is unknown. But, for the user, Friendfeed can be remarkably more efficient than Twitter, as it combines a number of social media tools into one place. This week, Linda offers some more discoveries she made at Friendfeed as she followed Karoli's advice from last week.
Adding More Options
You may have read many articles that state that Friendfeed is a lot like Twitter – but it's also like Facebook in some respects. It's more of an intermediary tool – and it could be your primary tool – to catch the news from friends and professionals in your field as well as to communicate back to them at Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook. You may find yourself living at Friendfeed eventually, especially with all the options they provide.
But, many of the social networking tools that Friendfeed shares are not on my radar – and they may or may not be on yours. To find these FriendFeed options, just do the following:
1. Click on the "settings" link in the top right corner
2. Click "add/edit" next to "Services" as seen in the image shown above
3. Pick a service or expand the list to see all the services that FriendFeed supports
4. Clicking on any service will bring up the specific requirements FriendFeed needs (e.g., username, email address) in order to import your stuff from that service (options shown in image below):
Your stuff should show up in your FriendFeed almost immediately. If the service you want to add is not one of the ones that Friendfeed currently supports, you can still add it as a "Blog" or "Custom RSS/Atom", as long as it has a per-user RSS or Atom feed.
Note that I have three blogs connected, but they're all blogs that have something to do with Appomattox, Virginia and Appomattox News. I also have my feed linked in to LinkedIn and to Twitter. I haven't added any other options yet, as I'm not sure that I need to at the moment. But, as a designer, programmer or other Web professional, you may want to tap into your Flickr or Picasa Web Album accounts, or share your Digg, delicious, YouTube or StumbleUpon accounts.
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.