I’ve been waiting a while to write a post on one of the hotter web 2.0 startups, friendfeed. When friendfeed first launched several months ago it was definitely an early adopter product. And, perhaps, I didn’t understand it well enough. We all know I love Twitter which let’s you stream short thoughts, events or links. So, I assumed that friendfeed would be an extension of the lifestreaming concept - the never-ending newsfeed which was first made popular by Facebook. And it is. But, it has become so much more.

Check out this image:

You can see that several posts by different people. Some I “follow” and others are suggested to me by friendfeed. I can subscribe to more people, block people I don’t care for and easily configure it to automatically share anything I want from 40+ services including RSS feeds, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Digg. It’ll even let people know what you’re listening to on Pandora.

But, the thing I like best is the conversations on friendfeed that ensue when someone posts something interesting. Lately, it seems that I’ve found a ton of really interesting articles just by watching friendfeed. Once something is posted people can “like” the article or even “comment” on it. From there you get awesome debates and further information. Take for instance, this post about cases for the iPhone 3G (something I’m definitely interested in).

So, give friendfeed a try. There’s much more to it than I’ve even described here. Photographer and Blogger, Justin Korn, talks about how to get started on friendfeed and pick your friends. I think friendfeed is an endless source of great web content and conversation around web content. Let me know what you think.

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