FriendFeed NpTech Learning Experiment: Some Practical Tips for Filtering

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Jonathon Colman set up a FriendFeed Room for NpTech and I designed a quick experiment in sharing resources via FriendFeed about FriendFeed.  If you want to participate, here's how.  More than 40 folks have joined so far.

The above screenshot is one of the conversation threads that is happening in the NpTech Room about FriendFeed (there are some other conversations happening related to other resources being shared -I'll roundup at the end of the week.) I shared some screencasts by Andy Roberts that provide some practical tips and also explain why FriendFeed is useful (combines object sharing with friend of friend).   He demonstrated using a client called Twhirl, but Marnie and Ruby noted that they were having trouble with some dupes. I managed to stumble upon another video on YouTube (it showed up as a related video to Andy's) about how to filter in FriendFeed.

What have you learned about using Friendfeed efficiently?  I've you've popped into the FriendFeed NpTech Room, what has been your experience?  It is important to capture the experience of a newbie.

Comments

[Jordan Viator]

Thanks for putting this room together with Jonathon, Beth! I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Friend Feed and it's been great having a place online where I see a few familiar faces to help with the learning experience.I'm still a little overwhelmed with the multitude options for what I can share - and access from friends - here but I'm getting the hang of it. As usual, you are doing an amazing job of educating all of us on a new tool.

Hope your Australia adventures went well!

[Beth Kanter]

Try to do the experiment and see what you think.

Not everyone thinks FriendFeed is fabulous
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/06/nptech-friendfe.html#comments

I've come think that sharing resources with a small group of people interested in a particular topic is the most value. I'm still struggling with the filtering too ...

[Nathan Ketsdever]

Great post. Great video.

I just wish Facebook feed had that option. I think the ideal interface to do that, however is more like stumbleupon's categories to opt-in and opt-out. (perhaps combined with individual social media platform opt in and opt out--ie twitter, utterz, flickr, blog, tumblr, etc..)

[Beth Kanter]

@nate it does
http://flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/2551653161/