Love this song

I actually tweeted about this not too long ago, and at the time I mentioned I could only find the song on the artist’s MySpace page.  Unfortunate, because I like to meter my time on that website as much as possible.  Anyways, I was jonesing to hear it again today but was both sad and delighted that Bis removed it and added some new tracks, and so my focus shifted to YouTube.  Here it is, “Do This” by Canibus and Chino XL.  I really like the hook in this song, and even though his verse is short I can never get it out of my head:

FriendFeed

These days with the seemingly endless number of social networks it quickly becomes difficult to keep up with all of them.  Micro-blogging sites like Twitter, Pownce, Plurk, Zannel, and Jaiku all offer their own features and are good enough on their own to pull in an audience of users, but as a result it seems like everyone is spread out because they’re using their own favorite service.  Not only that but chances are good that if you’re micro-blogging you probably have an account on MySpace or Facebook, maybe a Digg.com or del.icio.us account, and so on and so forth.  Needless to say it quickly becomes difficult to follow all of your friends’ activities across all of these different services.  That’s where FriendFeed comes in.

When I first heard about FriendFeed I was very slow to adopt.  The entire premise is so meta (a social network for my social networks?) that it was difficult for me to back because I wasn’t sure it it was necessarily needed.  Now that I’m expanding the blog a bit though, creating YouTube videos made me realize that maybe it was time to standardize.  What FriendFeed does is gather up a feed of everything you do on whatever sites you tell it you’re on, and they’re all displayed in one place for your friends to see.

When I opened my FriendFeed account the first thing I had to do was tell it what I’m using.  You don’t have to give passwords or anything, just usernames since most of posts/content are publicly available on these sites anyways.  So I gave it my Twitter username, the address to my blog, my YouTube username, Digg/Pownce/Plurk info and so on.  Now anything I do with any of those sites is automatically added to my FriendFeed.  New blog post?  FriendFeed has it.  New tweet?  FriendFeed has it.  The interface is really simple and clean so it’s easy to read, but if you don’t like it for some reason you can add your or any of your friends’ feeds to your favorite RSS aggregator.

That’s all I really have to say about it, go try it out.  If you decide to make an account you can subscribe to my feed here and I’ll do the reciprocate the love. =)

Now Playing:
The Pogues – Bottle of Smoke
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (recently patched with PSN trophies!)