While Twitter is laboring removing features, or half removing them, or some — FriendFeed continues its continual measure at adding newborn ones. The stylish digit today is small, but potentially very, rattling useful. Basically, you crapper today intend emails/IMs/pop-up notifications from some assemble or individual individual on FriendFeed.

While it haw not be so manifest at first, this is multipurpose because you crapper bespoken accommodate FriendFeed to ingest modify when you’re not on the site. The artefact I’ve been using it for individual months today is to create groups for people/things I’m specially fascinated in. But that would ease order that I go to FriendFeed to analyse those groups. Now I crapper meet intend pinged over IM every instance something I’m hunting for comes up.

My associate Steve Gillmor should fuck this, because this allows you to essentially road something without existence actively geared in the service. It doesn’t still impact for ransomed searches on FriendFeed — which would earmark you to road some keyword, but you crapper envisage that module become presently as well. Track is a feature that Twitter utilised to hit to sound grouping when a keyword was said. It had to quit the assist when Twitter kept crashing terminal assemblage as it grew it size. It’s still supposedly reaching back digit day, but it would seem FriendFeed, erst again, haw vex them to it.

And patch chase keywords is interesting, I’m actually more fascinated in grouping road — which is what this is. And since FriendFeed of instruction imports Twitter messages, this essentially is a road of grouping on Twitter too. And if you rattling poverty to intend fancy, you crapper meet road when a individual likes something on FriendFeed and hit it sound you, or a sort of another options.

And this doesn’t hit to meet be over IM. You crapper intend these notifications over telecommunicate or using FriendFeed’s AIR-based popup notifier. Slick.

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