How Friendfeed Helps You Find The Best Websites Online

FriendFeed is one of the newer micro-blogging, social networking sites that is focused on sharing the things you like with the people you like. In most cases, it is used as a way to share videos or music, but it also used to share websites among friends.

The goal of FriendFeed is for people to make better use of the web by sharing your favorites with people you already know. Social networking sites such as MySpace or Google are more concentrated on finding new people to join your network. FriendFeed assumes you already have a network of friends in place.

In addition to sharing what you have found on the web with your friends, you can see what your friends are up to and what they are looking at. For example, if a friend has recently bookmarked a YouTube.com video, you can link directly to that video. If your friend has found an interesting audio clip or photograph somewhere online, you will have access to that media.

Once you have bookmarked your media, you can discuss it amongst your friends. This is where website sharing comes in. If you find a website that you love and think your friends will enjoy, bookmark that site. Then, you and your friends can discuss its content, its relevance to your lives, and maybe go surfing for more websites like it. There is no end to the depth of discussions you can have with FriendFeed.

FriendFeed keeps track of all of your online activity and creates a database based on that activity. By crawling through the sites you have found, it finds others that might be of interest to you (much like Tivo does with television programming), and alerts you to those. By visiting a website or two, FriendFeed gets an idea of what you are interested in, and keeps track of your online movements. It then alerts your friends to what you are doing and where you are going.

In addition to helping you and your friends find some of the best websites online, FriendFeed helps you find videos and music that you might love, as well as put you in touch with people who are in a similar mind to you. All of this information is based on your surfing habits – where you go and what you do there.
Of course, there are some thing you might not want your friends to know about – so be careful where you search!