Social Network Aggregation - Example: Friendfeed

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Social Network Aggregation

Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as MySpace, Facebook and even Twitter. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile. Various aggregation services provide tools or widgets to allow users to consolidate messages, track friends, combine bookmarks, search across multiple social networking sites, read rss feeds for multiple social networks, see when their name is mentioned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface, provide "lifestreams", etc. Here is a social network aggregator.

Friendfeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other types of RSS/Atom feeds. Friendfeed makes content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information

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