Where's My Feed?
I've recently been playing around with FriendFeed, must admit I doin't fully understand how to make the most of it at this stage but I'm not going to give up just yet.
One thing I was thinking though was that the emphasis of so many new tools is on 'sharing' FriendFeed being a perfect example, along with Twitter and Facebook and MySpace. Sharing is a critical component in the success of these services, but I think we're neglecting a key aspect of how we use the internet - to gather information.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to share status updates, photos, locations, videos etc with friends, but I personally spend a lot of time reading news, blogs articles and checking email. The problem is that I go to a lot of different places to pick up this information and RSS feeds and readers, although extremely useful, don't fully meet my needs.
What I envisage is a 'MY FEED' instead of focusing on sharing, think of it as a place to get all your data in 'near' real time. Picture it, your email, Facebook updates, Twitter @ and DMs as well as news, blogs, weather, stock updates that you pick all delivered to you in one secure stream. This reflects how we actually browse the net more accurately, looking for new items, new emails, updated blog posts. Pulling all this data into one chronological stream would be a powerful way to access information online.
I'd be very interested to see if any companies out there are doing this and if not, how feasible it might be.
