I need a Filter, not a Friendfeed dammit - part II

It didn't take us long after playing with lifestreaming services last year to work out what we needed was filtering, not more aggregation (see our post last week on FriendFeed as a recent example).

Looks like a number of others are now coming to the same conclusion....Jevon McDonald writes:

The problem that is cropping up however is that these apps are probably better called “noise aggregators” or “NoiseStreamr”s than anything else. By the time I had friended a few dozen people on FriendFeed and started trying to keep up with their blog posts, twitters, del.icio.us bookmarks, Jaiku status and more, I start to feel like I am experiencing more of a info-avalanche than I am floating down a lazy river of socially relevant news.

I don’t think that this problem is inherent to information streams, but it is pretty obvious that these tools are in their infancy and a lot of art and science is going to have to go in to improving the information flow....

.....There is a clear trend toward data streams built out of my social network, but the focus has to be on reducing noise, not adding to it.

Yup - what we said.....and I don't really see how recirculating the Friendfeed aggregation back into Twitter helps this!

(Pointer courtesy of Read/Write Web)