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friendfeed

http://friendfeed.com

FriendFeed (ff) aggregates all of the RSS feed that you generate through the course of time into one place (twitter, blogs, netflix, and many others)

Once you subscribe to other user’s friendfeed accounts you can start viewing the accumulation of their life online.

You have the ability to comment on anyone’s shared item. If you liked what they have to say then you can very simply indicate this.

Taking any action on a shared item pushes that item back to the top of a shared reverse chronological stream of everyone’s life.

Twitter Posts (tweets) will often start out in the twitter realm as simple posts only to become very involved conversation in friendfeed.

You can learn a lot by listening and sharing, and it also helps you stay in touch with friends and colleagues around the world.

Twitter

Testing out twitter.

“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!”

I think you really need to figure out which companion tools to use in order to derive benefit from this resource.

Examples:

cell phone texting
twhirl: “twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
IM
twitkit etc…

You also have to figure out some of the addons

@username =public replies to your followers/followed
#hashtags – a companion site that enables tagging of your tweets (I haven’t quite gotten it to work yet)