Reorganizing my weblife yet again

Ideally, I’d like to have all my feeds (my blogs, my reader shared, my twitter feed etc.) aggregated into one page, where my readers can pick and choose what they’d like to subscribe to. I’d like to be able to pre-define sets of feeds with titles like “High Quality”, “Philosophy” and “Everything”. Lately, I’ve been wondering how I should reorganize my weblife to get closer to this ideal, and the perceived lack of services to help me with that has really frustrated me. But then, yesterday, I got a great tip that I think helps closing this gap: FriendFeed. 

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that also features its own microblogging, the ability to comment on any entry whatsoever, social bookmarking and the ability to subscribe to other people’s aggregated feeds. In other words, it nails the first part of my conception of an ideal service. It won’t be perfect until there is a feature to define “aspects” of one self like the mentioned examples, to prevent people from, a) flooding their subscribers with things they’re not interested in, or b) holding themselves to a standard so high that their activity is suffocated. But for now, it’s the best we have, at least as far as I know of.

Here’s my FriendFeed-page. I recommend the service for almost everybody. Here’s a short introduction video. But it’s best if you just try it, the learning curve is not very steep, and it has some features that might impress you (I don’t want to make a list, go see for yourself). Make sure to check out the beta for a new interface. It’s cleaner than the current one.

There are other services like it, but I think FriendFeed stands out from the crowd. TechCrunch had an article yesterday titled FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses, in which the author points to the competition from Twitter in particular, but what he fails to mention is that FriendFeed has a feature that makes it work like a Twitter application. When you write a comment in response to a tweet, you have the option to “also send this comment as an @reply twitter”. So you can both receive and compose tweets from inside of FriendFeed. This makes it seem to me like they’re not competitors, but that FriendFeed uses Twitter like a feature of its own service! How can this fail to be a winning strategy!?