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FriendFeed Gets Even More Personal by Adding Personalized Recommendations

June 6, 2008 |

imageBret Taylor from FriendFeed announced a new FF feature tonight: personalized recommendations.

That’s why I’m happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the "best of" FriendFeed from the past day, week, or month according to the people you’re subscribed to.

The results are entirely personalized to you. We figure out what content was most interesting in your network based on your friends’ comments and "likes" and other signals.

Discussions around signal vs. noise are a mainstay on Friendfeed, so I think this is going to make a lot of people very happy. From my own tests, I can say that this new feature does indeed present the most heavily discussed items of the day.

As of now, the summary function only works across your own network. This is not (yet?) a more general memetracker that covers all of FriendFeed

(Update: just heard from the FriendFeed guys about this; while this is an option they are considering, their efforts right now are on the personalized features).

If you are a complete Friendfeed addict and you check the site regularly during the day, chances are that you won’t have missed any of these discussions anyway, but if you only check once or twice a day (or if you are on vacation for a few days), this new function will give you a very trustworthy overview of the best posts you have missed.

One thing that still continues to amaze me about Friendfeed is the speed by which it serves up its pages – especially given that every page is highly personalized. Displaying these personalized summaries doesn’t take any longer than serving up any other page on Friendfeed.


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