Reactions to Playing with FriendFeed

I've been playing with FriendFeed the last couple of days after seeing posts from folks like Scoble. I've long discussed the need for the "great Web 2.0 presence aggregator". It's something I've considered writing it, although I've never had the time nor the web design skills (I can do functional, just not pretty). Now that I've played with it it's about 75% of what I envisioned.

The system provides a clean interface for seeing all the activity of your friends in one place. This is more people centric, so a person can have any number of web 2.0 services attached to his account which are presented coherently and logically.

One interesting feature is the inclusion of "imaginary friends". Unlike Mr Snuffelupagus, everyone will admit that imaginary friends exist (yes, I know that Mr. S is now seen by everyone on Sesame Street, but from my youth he is still imprinted as Big Bird's imaginary friend) . The purpose behind them is to allow you to follow folks who have not yet subscripted to FriendFeed. A friend of mine asked how this compares to just adding the person's feeds to an RSS reader. The people centric nature of FF is more coherent and a better approach, IMHO.

FriendFeed supports a number of the popular web 2.0 services including Digg, Google Reader, Reddit, del.icio.us, Furl,, Ma.gnolia, StumbleUpon, Gmail/Google Talk Status, Jaiku, Pownce, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Zooomr, Blog, Tumblr, iLike, Last.fm, Pandora, Amazon Wishlists, Google Shared Stuff, LinkedIn, Netflix Queue,Upcoming, and Yelp. Addionally you can add any RSS feed to the service (your blog, any new web 2.0 service that's created, etc). There is a facebook app which presents my presence rather nicely and effectivly removes a number of boxes from facebook, replaced by one consistant interface,

Where I really like the look and feel of thie beast there are a couple of pieces missing. Since I have provided FriendFeed with accounts I have on a number of social networks, why can't FriendFeed do reverse lookups to determins who's already there. For example, if I have Scoble listed as a friend in twitter, why doesn't FriendFeed automagically hunt him down and ask if I want to add him? The process of finding all my contacts one more time and adding them is rather annoying.

Also, It would be really nice if this thing produced an FOAF file or added XFN style links so it ties into the semantic web better.

I can be found at http://friendfeed.com/nibbler

BTW, this is my first real post with Qumana's Q-Editor so don't be surprised if things look a little different. I'm checking it out for a friend and will probably post on it later.