Follow These 10 On FriendFeed

I've been pretty active on FriendFeed for the past couple of weeks and it has definitely become one of my new top spots on the web. In many ways FriendFeed simply replaces a lot of other sites where I was spending time in the past. It has completely replaced Twitter for me for instance and has also taken my chunk of time that I used to spend focusing on my Flickr contact's photos (I now see all of these photos on FriendFeed instead of Flickr directly itself).

As I've gotten into the FriendFeed experience I've noticed a few heavy users that consistently provide valuable insight into my FriendFeed experience. This list of 10 is by no means exhaustive. In fact it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. There are so many little one off conversations floating around FriendFeed. These are just some of the people that I personally find especially interesting.

You can click on the names to get their FriendFeed and add them.

1. He has a great post here on five ways to use the hide feature (one of FriendFeed's most valuable features). Louis is always helping out new members and assisting them with navigating the site.

2. top bloggers on the internet and the king of social media. Robert is the early adopter's early adopter. In general my rule is that I don't try out a new Web 2.0 site until Robert has blessed it and written about it 10 times or so. Robert is extremely active on FriendFeed and one of it's biggest conversation participants.

3. He's an analyst for Jupiterresearch and it was great getting some of his insights directly on the new Netflix Roku box yesterday on FriendFeed.

4. Bret Taylor and There's a great tool to do just that right here. Why follow these people on Twitter alone when you can get all their great Twitter messages plus all their great Flickr photos, blog posts, etc. etc.

7. Random FriendFeeds from people who are active in conversations that you are interested in. One of my favorite things to do on FriendFeed is to look at a conversation that I'm active in. Ian Betteridge and ha3rvey.

Remember, you can always hide parts of someone's FriendFeed if it doesn't provide value to you. But you can also discover new and interesting people by subscribing to people who are interested in the same sort of things that you are.

8. All of your favorite Flickr/Zooomr contacts even if they are not on FriendFeed. Say what? How do you subscribe to someone on FriendFeed who is not even on FriendFeed? Easy. You can see who is subscribing to you on FriendFeed here.

10. There are so many other great people participating in conversations on FriendFeed. I especially love the photography related conversations. I hesitate to list more names simply because there are too many and I *know* that I'm forgetting some. But here's a quick list of some way more than 10 people worth checking out. Andrew Dobrow, Ontario Emperor, Russellreno, susan mernit, trancemist, Morton Fox, Bwana McCall, Shey.

Are you on FriendFeed? Let me know if you are or if you sign up by leaving your FriendFeed link in a comment on this post and I'll subscribe to you as well.

Oh yeah, and if you want to add Thomas Hawk, Comments