Have you heard of FriendFeed yet? It’s a service that creates a news feed incorporating all the networks you belong to–Facebook, Digg, Last.fm ,etc…– personalizing the data feed with info from each of the sites.  The number of social networking sites they support is staggering.Â
Tech Crunch tells us, “[e]ver since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That’s because while a lot of sites claim to be real-time, FriendFeed is one of the few that actually updates continuously as data comes in. Starting today, any search you do will also get that same real-time treatment.”
Entering any query into FriendFeed’s search box brings up a constantly updating stream of items related to it. It works for advanced searches too, but perhaps best of all, it also searches through comments left below items. These results can then even be embedded in other blogs.
Right now FriendFeed is possibly the most compelling way to do real-time searches of hugely popular services like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, various blogs — and all the comments related to those. But thus far, FriendFeed has shied away from any business model. They’ve given hints of what may be to come with its “Shameless Self-Promotion” banners, but a paid search model would seem to be an obvious choice.
And according to Tech Crunch, FriendFeed still has a few more things in store, including tracking for topics (it already has it for people and groups). “We’re also working on allowing you to subscribe to saved searches, add them to your friend lists, and even get notifications based on search keywords. So stay tuned,” writes Jim Norris, a co-founder who like his other co-founders, came from Google.
Checking your internet speed can ensure you your real-time updates are truly instantaneous!