I've been trying several social media aggregators over the past few months and decided to un-clutter the main page sidebar with a widget built from my friendfeed's RSS. I built my original lifestream with Yahoo! Pipes, but love the way new-ish Friendfeed groups my posts from all over the web - with a bonus network of its' own. While they do offer an embeddable blog widget once again I've run the RSS through Feedburner's Buzzboost so I can customize it to fit the site.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.

FriendFeed aims to become a social network as well as a lifestream aggregator, and it seems an avid and growing user base may make it so. Note the 'comment' link in the stream on the sidebar, grab a FriendFeed username to join the conversation! I'd love to see more friends plug into Friendfeed, it's neat to discover other's Flickr feeds or shared items in Google Reader and such. While some duplication is inevitable, the developers coded an option to turn off sources should they become too redundant.

There's a budding developer's network and an upcoming API which should bring some interesting content to Friendfeed users and their readers. I'm most looking forward to 2-way communication between outlets - similar app socialthing lets you post to Twitter from inside their page, but doesn't aggregate friends items.

While people are finding perks, Friendfeed just improved thier search functions. It won't take long till the amount of topical data will be huge as the userbase gets larger...more people sharing and interested in the same stuff I am!

update 4/29/08: Since Friendfeed seems to be dropping my del.icio.us bookmarks in the feed, I'm reverting to my pipes.Yahoo! lifestream.