There is a new type of social Web utility, which automatically tracks a user’s public activity at sites around the Web including blogs, Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us, etc. and creates a single convenient feed for others to consume and track. It is mainly aimed at tracking “friends’ activity” over the net from a single feed but could also be used for professional purposes to aggregate feeds from professional blogs, del.icio.us accounts, youtube, flickr, etc. Friendfeed and Socialthing! seem to be the leaders, they are still in beta format. Both have been created to follow your friends’ “digital life” but it would be easy to use them to track a specially created professional identity, ie. a digital library, in order to provide one single feed for use in blogs used in a workplace, for instance.
To be evaluated …
