BuddyFeed is the latest iPhone native app option for lovers of Friendfeed. I’ve recently posted about Webfeedr (the first native Friendfeed app) and Nambu, an all-in-one iPhone client app for Friendfeed, Twitter, Ping.fm, Identi.ca, and Laconica. For me, BuddyFeed tops the other two so far, in terms of look and feel and performance.
I like its UI a bit better than Webfeedr, as it feels a little cleaner / less busy to me – though I would like to see navigation to the main sections be a bit less plain, and have nav buttons or similar for Rooms / Me / Home etc. on most of the main views. I’d also like to have the Rooms view offer links to the various rooms you’re a member of, rather than just a stream of all your rooms’ content.
For the moment, BuddyFeed also wins over Nambu as the latter still refuses to remember my FF credentials, and prompts for them every time I close and relaunch it (otherwise Nambu would be my current fave).
Here’s a listing of BuddyFeed’s features:
- iew your feeds of home, rooms and everyone.
- View your own feeds, likes and commented messages.
- Inline web browser for links in messages.
- View comments and likes of messages.
- View user profiles
- Search your feeds
- Search all public feeds
- Post messages to your home
- Post images in messages
- Post comment to messages
- Mark like/unlike of messages
- Subscribe/Unsubscribe to a user
- Bookmarklet for Safari for posting messages
My first impression on BuddyFeed is that it’s a useful, slightly basic feeling, option for Friendfeed on the iPhone. For now I think I just about prefer it to using Friendfeed in the Safari browser – but I still have high hopes for what Friendfeed’s own native iPhone app will bring, hopefully any day now.
For those of you who haven’t tried Friendfeed yet, here’s a good page to get a little flavor of what it offers, and a brief excerpt from it:
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
BuddyFeed is available now in the App Store, at $0.99.
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Not a fan of this interface. Still trying to find out how to post comments.
The next killer iPhone App is going to be one than does nothing but tell me what the hot topics (trending) are on Twitter and Friendfeed. It should show by percentage increase over my selected period of time – 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or last day…etc.
Wayne – you’re right, it is a little awkward to find that at first. You need to tap on the (very small) Like and Comment icons at bottom right of an individual message, and then hit the backward arrow reply symbol on the individual message screen.
I like the trending idea a lot. Keyword tracking would be nice too (Twitter used to have it) …
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