Impulsive Geekery

I’ve finally used Yahoo’s Pipes to do something useful: I created a customizable RSS feed for FriendFeed that filters out your own activity, leaving only the activity of your friends. 

FriendFeed is a handy site that consolidates all your friends activity on blogs, flickr, and social networking sites.  You create an account and link it to all your favorite sites.  As you use those sites, FriendFeed picks it up and generates a nice stream of what you’ve been up to.  Then, your friends can subscribe to your friends streams, thus giving yourself a nice, one-stop feed of interesting content from your friends.  It’s like twitter, but without, well, all the twittering.

In fact, if you’re reading this, you probably saw it via my FriendFeed via Facebook.

The problem with FriendFeed is that the feed also contains your own activity.  Seeing as I generally don’t drink & surf, I remember everything I’ve done.  I only want to see what my friends are up to.  They’re far more interesting anyway. 

Enter my Pipe.  It takes your FriendFeed and filters out you.  Sort of like the opposite of a mirror - it shows you everything but yourself.

To use it, go here, enter the RSS feed URL from the Friends tab of your FriendFeed account, run the pipe, then click the RSS button in the "Use this Pipe" section of the page.  That should get you subscribed to your new feed via my pipe.

Enjoy!

And, if you want to follow me around on FriendFeed, by all means do.