FriendFeed - a personal Techmeme
Felix over on the #comments blog; which if you are subscribed to you should be, has an interesting premise - the fact that FriendFeed could end up being our own personal Techmeme. While I am sure that Gabe Rivera of Techmeme isn’t overly concerned that this will happen Felix does give a few good points as to why this could happen
Instead of that, they could do some kind of super fancy voodoo and aggregate all the postings to a given link into one post - they could grab discuss comments, diggs, reader shares, etc… and group that all together so you could get a sense of who was interested in what and all the conversation on FF would be bunched up. Beyond that, if it’d show people who weren’t my friend (or friends of friends) it’d be a great way to discover new and interesting voices. It would also provide a meter to see how popular various posts were - which would certainly be something interesting to see.
Obviously, that’s not really what Techmeme does, but it would be a first step towards that. First unify all the things on FriendFeed. A much more ambitious step would be to subsequently analyze posts to see who’s linking to them - and that would be very Techmeme’y - but it would be better because I would see discussions of things that were more likely to be pertinent to me since all the original matter would be things my friends had posted
Take a moment and give the complete post a read because Felix does raise some very interesting ideas of things that could be implemented within FriendFeed to make it that personal Techmeme engine.
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