FriendFeed Playground

There's no doubt that Friendfeed is a great web service for all us geeks that needs to be in touch with friends, and follow new stuff 24/7. But since the service still new, there is definitely room for improvement. Good thing that Friendfeed counting on their community to make this service better, and allowed them to use their API.

I've collected some tools and tips from the web that can helps you get the most out of your Friendfeed account.

Friendfeed + Greasemonkey

Greasemonky is a Firefox extension that enable you to install smaller extensions (userscripts) to easily customize the way a site display. Here are some useful scripts that built along with Friendfeed API:

• Remove visited links - Wouldn’t it be great if Friendfeed won't display links you’ve already looked at?
• Tweet from your Friendfeed (same post)
  
• Show Domains - Show domain name for all shared links.
• Friendfeed Tabs - Allows you to customize the tabs in your Friendfeed account (currently only adds Techmeme).

• Easy Unsubscribe - Adds an unsubscribe link to individual user page.
• Read Later - Allows you to mark entries to read at a later time, easily accessible in a custom tab (My favorite so far).
• Filter Friendfeed by services - Download here

Friendfeed sharing button:

• The official Friendfeed bookmarklet.
• Shareaholic - Firefox addon.
• Add to Any - Blogging widget.
  

From Blogoscoped:

• Add Friendfeed search to your iGoogle page - Click
• Friendfeed search engine - Click
• The Friendfeed grid - Click
• Friendfeed Top 100 most linked to pages - Click
  

For Geeks+:

• Update Friendfeed using ASP - Easily create scripts to update FriendFeed with text, links, and photos.
• Joomla open source component - This a module to display your FriendFeed items on your site. It will display a number of entries from one specific Friendfeed nickname, or alternatively, from the public feed.

Other tools:

• Friendfeed and AIM - AOL Instant Messenger status updates to FriendFeed.
• Friendfeed comments plugin for Wordpress - Pulls back comments from Friendfeed and show them on your blog.
• Embed your Friendfeed stream on your blog or site : widget 1 (just add your user-name to URL)| widget 2
• Facebook application for Friendfeed - Great tool for busy people.

According to Techcrunch, Desktop client built by Adobe AIR is coming soon!