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The current market gyrations have investors running everywhere seeking advice. What better time to launch a newswire culled from the latest posts of financial bloggers? That’s the idea behind Wikinvest Wire, which has just been launched by the user-edited investment site Wikinvest. Except that it is not really a newswire in the traditional sense. It is more like a contextual recommendation system for the blogs invited to participate.

Wikinvest Wire is starting off with 100 financial blogs, including Confused Capitalist, Money Morning, College Analysts, The Mess That Greenspan Made, Financial Armageddon, and Old School Value. All told the blogs attract about one million unique visitors a month. Wikinvest is also in the process of syndicating the Wikinvest Wire to mainstream media sites, where links will appear on their stock pages. Wikinvest Wire is invite-only, but interested bloggers can apply.

The Wire will exist primarily on the participating blogs themselves, on Wikinvest topic pages, and on the yet-to-be-named media sites. For each of the 100 financial blogs, at the end of each post three links will appear to posts from other blogs in the network discussing the same stock or financial topic (such as “Google (GOOG),” “bailout,” or “credit default swaps”). The contextual links will also appear on relevant pages on Wikinvest and other stock and financial sites. (See screenshot). In this sense, it is similar to contextual recommendation systems like Sphere, OutBrain, or BlogRovr, which all append recommended links at the end of blog posts or news articles using a variety of methods.

Nevertheless, Wikinvest co-founder Parker Conrad positions Wikinvest Wire as really taking on SeekingAlpha, an investing news site that republishes posts from select blogs and media outlets (including TechCrunch). Conrad argues:

This launch puts us directly in competition with a larger site—SeekingAlpha.com—in that both SeekingAlpha and the Wire are syndication platforms for investing bloggers. However, there are some important distinctions:

SeekingAlpha requires a blogger to give up their content to SeekingAlpha. The bloggers’ articles are published on SeekingAlpha, and SeekingAlpha distributes links to content on their site to their partners, such as Yahoo Finance. Investing bloggers use SeekingAlpha, grudgingly, because it increases their traffic marginally. But they also hate SeekingAlpha—because 99% of the traffic to their posts actually goes to SeekingAlpha. Selling ads against the bloggers’ content is, after all, SeekingAlpha’s business model. But you can see why that might chafe . . .

Wikinvest, however, does not require bloggers to host their content on our site—and all links, from media partners, wikinvest.com, and other bloggers, go directly to the blogger’s own site. What we get out of it are links back to Wikinvest which are included in the Wire.

There’s also another big difference Conrad forgot to mention. SeekingAlpha is an actual site where readers can go and see all of the posts it hand-picks in one place. There is no one place you can go to see all the posts included in the Wikinvest Wire. The links are generated algorithmically and distributed piecemeal all over the Web. There is not even an RSS feed that pulls all the 100 financial blogs that make up the Wikinvest Wire together. (Although, you can get an RSS feed for any Wikinvest topic page, which will include Wikinvest Wire posts for that topic).

All of this is by design, as Conrad explains above, to generate more traffic for the participating blogs. But it’s not really a wire unless there is one place you can go to see all the posts popping up as they go live. So I’m not sure SeekingAlpha has too much to worry about.

Nevertheless, the addition of relevant financial blog posts to each page on Wikinvest should help to make it an even more useful site than it is today. If you are trying to figure out what to do with your stock portfolio, it is worth checking out for the comprehensiveness of the data and collection of arguments from both bulls and bears on each stock. They also have great charts that anyone can annotate (I’ve embedded one below).

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As Research in Motion prepares to open its Blackberry Application Center to answer the iPhone’s App Store, an unaffiliated startup called the BerryStore has already launched a competing app store for Blackberry Apps. What makes it better than the official BlackBerry App Center (besides the name), is that apps in the BerryStore work across both old and new BlackBerries alike (not just the upcoming BlackBerry Storm), and across carriers. The BlackBerry App center, in contrast, is designed to be a carrier-specific store, with different apps for different carriers.

AYou can download the BerryStore as an app itself by visiting www.berrystore.com on your BlackBerry. (The App Center will require users to download apps through their Blackberry browsers, which is not the best experience). Already there are about 40 apps in the store, ranging from Loopt, 3Jam, and TwitterBerry to Obopay, Citysense, and Google Mobile. All of them are currently free, although the company plans on offering paid apps in the future. Developers can get more details about how to submit apps or the BerryStore here.

Below is a list of each app currently in the BerryStore with a short description:

Books & Reference
NeoReader: Turns your Blackberry into a barcode scanner.
Blackberry Wiki: Wikipedia reader.
Beyond411: Yellow pages, maps, and directions.
MobipocketReader: Mobile e-reader.

Business & Finance
Obopay: P2P payments.
Bank of America: Manage your dwindling bank account.
NyTimes DealBook: A bookmark icon to the popular blog.
E-Trade Mobile Pro: Manage your dwindling stock portfolio.

Lifestyle
Google Mobile: Search, Maps, Gmail.
Opera: Opera Mini Web browser.
Zumobi:Mobile widgets.
Google Mail: As in Gmail.
Poynt: Local search.
Maufait InstaFind: Al-in-one 411, flight tracker, movie showtimes, stock quotes, weather, news.
Puretracks:Mobile music store.
Tellme: Voice-enabled GPS info.
reQall: Voice-to-text recorder, to-do list, and idea manager.
Nobex Radio Companion: Shows you the name of the songs playing on the radio.

News & Weather
Viigo: News, sports, entertainment, weather, stock and traffic alerts.
New York Times: Bookmark icon.
ABC News: Bookmark icon.
The Washington Post: Bookmark icon.
CNBC Mobile: Bookmark icon.
USA Today: Bookmark icon.
Slate: Bookmark icon.
PinStack.com: Forums

Social Networking
TwitterBerry: Mobile Twitter client that avoids SMS charges.
3jam: Group text messages.
eBuddy: Instant messaging app
Dexrex: Archives your text messages.
Pinger: Voice IM.

Sports
Sports Illustrated: Bookmark icon.
ESPN Mobile: Bookmark icon.

Travel & Navigation
Google Maps: What it sounds like.
GPSed: Map your GPS tracks, save them, and share them. Also geotags your photos.
Citysense: Live hotspot tracking.
WorldMate Live: A personal digital assistant for travelers

Utilities
Box.net: Access and share files on your BB.
AutoLock: Locks the keyboard.
MidpSSH: Connect to remote servers.
MiniMoni: Monitor IP traffic.

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Trion World Network, an online games developer, announced today that it raised $70 million in Series C funding. Peacock Equity, the joint venture between GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal, which was a B-round investor, was one of the investors in the company’s C round, but it was led by “a large global financial institution” and Act II Capital.

The fact that Trion was able to raise $70 million speaks to the popularity of gaming, which is quickly becoming a real competitor to Hollywood. But what sets Trion apart is that all its games are server-based. In other words, all the gameplay, characters, and interactions between players are kept on Trion’s servers, which allows the company to remodel less-played portions of the game or add more content on-the-fly. Consumers who want to play the company’s games need a few simple downloads to get the company’s games running on their computers.

Speaking of games, Trion is currently working on its first MMORPG with NBC Universal’s Sci-Fi channel. It’s also developing a fantasy MMORPG with well-known game designer, Jon Van Caneghem. The company didn’t offer any more details about storyline or availability, but if investors are willing to spend $70 million on the hopeful success of two games, they obviously think Trion is on to something with the titles.

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The billboards are up, the CEO search continues, and MySpace Music is set to launch sometime next week. It would have launched last week, but protracted negotiations with EMI to bring it aboard along with the other three music labels is believed to be the cause of the delay. If MySpace Music can launch with EMI it will overnight become a major new force for music distribution on the Web. That is because it will offer free streams of full-length tracks from all the major labels, legitimizing the advertising-supported model that is beginning to challenge iTunes’ pay-per-download approach. It will be more akin to a subscription model like Rhapsody’s, but without the subscription.

MySpace won’t be the first service to offer free ad-supported streams from all the major labels (imeem already does so, and even Rhapsody itself is moving towards a hybrid model that combines free-streaming, an MP3 store, and subscriptions). But it could be the first to run into serious antitrust issues.

Independent labels are already crying foul for being “blocked” from the service. The indies will likely be added over time. The bigger antitrust issue comes down to the pricing relationship between MySpace and the music labels. MySpace will have to be extra careful about how it structures its relationship with the music labels. MySpace Music is a joint venture between three of the four major music labels and is currently raising more capital at a $2 billion valuation. If EMI joins, it will probably want an equity stake as well.

It is not clear how MySpace Music will be paying the labels. But by giving them a financial stake in the business, MySpace Music has a chance of throwing out the current, problematic digital music business model. The problem with advertising-supported streams is that every music service on the Internet has to pay the labels about a penny per streamed song, which is the equivalent of a $10 CPM and is uneconomical.

The big unanswered question is whether MySpace Music will play by these same broken rules or whether it has convinced the labels to lower their prices (or simply accept a share of MySpace Music’s revenues). The music industry desperately needs a new digital business model. There is no question about that. But if the labels are going to allow MySpace Music to pay less per stream or not at all, and they themselves are joint venture partners in MySpace Music, that will open them up to charges of preferential pricing, collusion, and price discrimination. (The music industry’s own hush-hush TotalMusic project could run into the same issues).

So MySpace Music and the music labels might find themselves in a pickle. However, there is a solution that will help not only MySpace Music sidestep the antitrust pitfalls, but could also spark a whole new wave of growth in the entire digital music industry.

It’s simple really. The music labels should reset the rules by repricing the cost per song they charge to every music site on the Web. Whatever price MySpace Music is paying should be the price for all players. (A $1 effective CPM would make more sense). That might weaken MySpace Music’s competitive advantage, but getting clobbered by an antitrust lawsuit would be worse. And you know what they say about bigger pies.

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Yahoo India announced that it has launched yet another social network for the 16-24 age bracket in an attempt to capture the growing market in India. And although scant details are available, it sounds interesting.

Dubbed SpotM, the new social network will bring college-aged and those close to going to college together in one space. There’s no word on how Yahoo will be able to ensure everyone using the service is really as old as they claim, but Yahoo believes it can manage that problem.

SpotM attempts to differentiate itself by offering two features: the idea of a secret friend and SMS integration with anonymous chat. According to Yahoo, SpotM will allow users to make friends with other users and if they choose, make those friends private so other users don’t know about the relationship. SMS integration with anonymous chat will let users correspond via SMS without revealing their phone number.

It’s nice to see Yahoo try something new, but whether or not its privacy initiatives will really work in its favor remains in doubt. As social networks become more popular, it’s transparency that parenting groups are looking for, not privacy. And once those issues arise, every social network buckles under the pressure. Will Yahoo be any different?

SpotM is currently in private beta.

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Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington opened TechCrunch50 today saying they wanted to create the “Sundance Film Festival” for the internet industry where companies are judged on merit.  Here are our notes on the companies who presented in the first session of the conference, which showcased four startups that pertain to Youth and Culture. Highlights from the expert panel (Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube; Marrissa Mayer, VP product and search; Google; Ron Conway, prolific Angel investor; Dan Farber, Cnet, Editor in chief) also follow.

Shryk

Shryk (CB) — Web-based financial software called iThryv for children aimed at promoting financial literacy and good saving habits.

Co-founder Shane Kimpton presented how a mythical 8 year old girl “Lacy: would log into iThryv. Lacy has a savings account, 28 bucks in savings and a checking account. The savings are from her parents, desposited to teach her about credit and savings. She “wants” a Barbie Corvette toy and it lists it on her wish list along side her actual spending on recent purchases like toys. She works out she spent 50% on “wants” and 25% on “needs” which turns out not to be a good ratio for good money management. So on the manage money section she works out how to spend her money better.

Another example, “Jay” is 17 and he has a job and a girlfriend. The look of his account is more aimed at his age-group. Research says 25% of 18 to 24 year olds go bankrupt - so this is a way of keeping better tracking on incomes and outgoings. He starts to understand the way he manages his money is ranked against the way other users on the system of a similar age. He gets a score based on this. His score goes up the more he saves.

The founders emphasised that iThryv is not a bank. It’s a platform that sits on top of a banking system which allows banks to build a “customer for life” through the tools offered. They researched with banks and parents and built the site on this feedback. The site can also give suggestions about how to become entrepreneurs.

BlahGirls

Blah Girls — Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Blah Girls is a gossip site that features a group of animated teenage girls who provide opinions on what’s going on in the world of entertainment.

Presented by move actor Ashton Kutcher, a cartoon video preceded the presentation with some in-jokes about “silicone valley”, Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington (”He looks like Peter Griffith”).

essentially speaking this is a video animation but scripted to report news and gossip from three “interactive celebrity-culture obsessed cartoon girls. They bring up to date celeb trends and news. The core function is a video player updated regularly. The animated characters are clearly scripted and written to give some witty news about celeb culture. Blah Girls is clearly not aimed at kids. The characters smoke Pot and make jokes about hanging out with celebs.

Kutcher said there is more to it than just video. You log in as a user and say “that video sucks”, for instance. You then get an email back with a URL which sends you to a comment response page. Tiffany - a blah girl - has a response which is unique to the user. So the girls in the show are talking to the user. You can ask the Blah girls for gossip advice, e.g is Google taking over the world? And they will reply “e.g. relationships are like skinny jeans, sometimes you have to starve yourself to have a chance.” The comments get updated weekly (seems a bit slow?).

The pitch:

1. The core, is creating high quality content
2. Interactivity and social engagement for retention - advertising model.
3. Seamless integrated branded content. Vitamin Water is the first partner and they have been built into the shows seamlessly.

The future is domestic and international, TV, Web and games and collaborations with media partners.

Tweegee

Tweegee (CB) — A hub for tweens, Tweegee offers the youth market a suite of online tools for social interaction and organization

Tweegee is “the future of social activities for kids aged 8-14″. There not enough stuff for this age group online, says the founders. This is a destination site with content, gaming and social networking. Two kids came up. “I got to make my Tweegee look like me with my hair sticking up” said a young boy, who presented on stage, so the kids can customise their avatar. It also has email, can change the colour of the background and make the text sparkly - appeals to kids. It’s a full email programme but with a very child-friendly interface. There is also some safe pre-written text designed to keep kids safe in their emails to each other. Kids invite other to meet their “buddy machine”. Buddy Meter works out your best friends on the system. The calendar option has birthdays and pitctures.

Avatars can be presented in front of Hockey sets etc. Daily Ratings, megazone. is a place to build you own site - like a sorts portal with live news. A folder allows user to put their stuff inside like songs, movies sand pictures on the PC which can be uploaded and sent to friends. 1GB of space. Safety is a top priority. A full safety features, “patent pending” tools. Gaming: Also features casual games for kids.

Hangout Industries

Hangout Industries (CB) — Blends social networking with virtual worlds by creating a 3D, online environment where 16-24 year olds can chat and share media.

Built in 6 months, this site is a Web-based virtual world aimed at kids and young adults and allows them to highly customise their virtual space. It combines the virtual nature of The Sims, with the privacy of Facebook, and Myspace’s customisation features. Works on low end PCs/Macs and all browsers. It’s highly immersive, but pulls in real-world goods so the T-shirts are real from Threadless. An Allposters.com deal streams posters direct into the rooms and you can buy them. It bridges offline and online, allowing real products to be bought for you and your avatar. Can customize objects like tables and chairs.

Gravity works on objects. You can also play drums / musical instruments along with a background soundtrack. Can pull in existing social graphs so that you friends can set up a room. You can see the videos your friends have been watching, and see streaming shows into the room. The avatar can be customised with 30 brands and 30 tastemakers, all signed up clients so far.

Expert Panel

Panel discussion with judges:

Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube
Marrissa Mayer, VP product and search, Google
Ron Conway, prolific Angel investor - 500 investments in last 20 years.
Dan Farber, Cnet, Editor in chief

Questions:

Chad: I’m most familiar with Blah girls - I think video will be big (he jokes). But seriously this has a great opportunity for advertising.

The others are good, but content and scalability may have distribution.

Marissa:
Hangout I like but - what’s going to cost people get them to engage with it?
Answer: It’s an iframe inside existing social networks.
Marrisa: Biz model?
Answer: Users want cool products, and are willing to pay for it on virtual currency.

Marissa:
iThryv - a concern I have is a lot of the advertising are credit cards and loans which may be problematic?
Answer: Banks and partners would offer their services. It’s about customer for life for the bank, and the bank pays for this service.

Ron:
I would invest in iThryv but not until you have investors or backers like banks. For the other companies there is a dilemma - for your users you have to get their allocated time for them to move from existing social networks and they will have to reduce their time on others. Tweens are a pretty saturated market so new entrants would have to grab mind-share. With hangout and blah girls: Both are compelling and you have unique intellectual property.

Hangout’s reply: A user would never leave their MySpace page etc. as the site runs as an iframe and or Facebook application.

Ashton/BlahGirls: Our products can also move - we want to partner with YoUtube, and will be launching the first episode of today with them. We can travel anywhere on the web. It’s a video, so it can run anywhere you can host video.

Tweegee: This offers the ability for people to spend time inside.

Ron: You can’t leverage Club Penguin or replace it. It’s one activity the kids might choose among others. Kids this age have the most time on the web to spend so getting their attention shouldn’t be a problem,

Dan Farber:
All the startups were interesting. Blah Girls has a unique advantage in that it is original content and could become cultish. But the once a week video seems slow and its not that interactive yet. iThryv looks good. Hangout creates a new kind of experience within these existing context. Product placement done well can create a business. Tweegee - I had hard time understanding the business and how it fits against kids’ attention with things like ClubPenguin.

Marrissa: Hard to see the safety aspect with Tweegee….

Tweegee Answer: Kids want to communicate with friends but most sites kids need to choose a pre-written sentence. We give them a bit of free text from a white-list vocabulary, like T9 on a cell phone. You can’t write number to reveal phone numbers etc. This is integrated in all aspects of the site.

Chad: iThryv - why did you create it?
Answer: A motivation was we saw a market for kids understanding financial literacy. The housing crisis shows people are bad at finance. Also, banks have a hard time creating a customer for life. People are now moving away from traditional banks. We did research with kids and parents to see how they use money.

Chad: You’re going to have to simplify the site further for that audience.

Marrissa: I don’t see the value. What bothered me was that it didn’t seem realistic. Kids don’t construct strategy and business plans in the way presented.

iThryv responded; We have more that we could show that could address this.

Ron: Banks and credit card companies would probably have to be the actual investors, rather than VC/Angel.

Ron: With Hangout and Blah Girls: We all know that search and display advertising are big opportunities. It’s obvious there is a new market surfacing called product placement. In Blah Girls you already have the have Vitamin Water company as a client. Assuming the content is high quality, they can drive up the prices. This is a multibillion dollar market on the web being created right now.

Other Coverage

• Ashton Kutcher’s Web Video Show: Blah Girls
  Source: NewTeeVee
• Hangout Brings Richness to Generic Dating Profiles
  Source: Online Dating Insider
• IThryv: Online Banking for Kids
  Source: AppScout
• Blah Girls: Dude, Where’s My Web Site?
  Source: AppScout
• TechCrunch50: Start-Ups Target Kids
  Source: New York Times: Bits
• Ashton Kutcher pimps (Blah) Girls
  Source: CrunchGear
• Startups for kids at TechCrunch50
  Source: Webware

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AddictingGames, a popular Flash game portal, has announced plans to hold a large-scale awards show pertaining to casual games. The show will take place in 2009, with a series of voting rounds conducted on the site that will allow AddictingGames’ users to decide the final outcome (though judges will have some say).

The show will be open to any casual game on the web, but the results will likely be heavily skewed towards games on AddictingGames, since that’s where voting will actually take place. Few details have been released, but the Nickelodeon-owned site promises content spread on websites and television programs across “the entire Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group”.

While the execution is flawed (the voting will be totally biased), developers could use an incentive to create casual games that are more involved than the mind numbing junk games that litter countless sites and development platforms across the web. Alongside a compensation program that AddictingGames will be rolling out for its most popular developers, this could at least help gamers pick out the best of the crop.

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Tripwolf, the social travel guide that we introduced last month, has launched in public beta. The site allows users to network with friends to create an ideal travel trip, and also has a number of features designed to help research destinations and points of interest. To coincide with the launch, Tripwolf also announced that MairDumont, a travel guide publisher, has invested about $1.2 million into the company, in addition to the backing it has received from Austrian/American incubator i5invest.

One of the most appealing features of the site is the ability to generate a printable pdf travel guide by dragging and dropping the POIs you’ll be visiting. Unfortunately, while the dragging and dropping functionality works well, the guides themselves are very sparse, offering little more than an address, the hours of operation, and a one paragraph description. It would be nice to see a bit more content in these, even if it was only a summarized version of a Wikipedia article.

Tripwolf draws its data from a number of external sources, including Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube. And while it features a fairly comprehensive listing of interesting locales, it may have a hard time differentiating itself from countless other travel sites - there doesn’t seem to be anything too unique going on here.

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There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality.

For those of you moving on to FriendFeed’s greener pastures, here are 13 essential tools for an organized, “noise”-free experience.

Gridjit is a new web application, that is currently in private alpha, that organizes your FriendFeed and Twitter timelines into columns. It spreads out your timeline by user and shows that user’s most recent posts in boxes that are distributed across three columns. You can also post to Twitter and FriendFeed from the site. It’s a very new service, so there may be bugs, but if you’d like to try it out, Gridjit has supplied us with 250 invites. Enter the code dde60be to try it out.

Alert Thingy enables you to see your FriendFeed timeline from your desktop and receive updates through notifications (covered here). You can post updates and comment from the application, as well as post to Twitter or Flickr. Alert Thingy runs on Adobe AIR.

Twhirl, a popular desktop application among Twitterers, allows for FriendFeed posting and has a timeline tracker. It also supports posting to Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku, and allows for filtering news by “rooms”. Since Twhirl is a widely-used Twitter client, this should allow for an easier FriendFeed transition. Twhirl runs on Adobe AIR so it is available for Windows and OSX.

bTT by Sobees is a desktop FriendFeed application that is part of Sobees’ desktop suite bSuite. It is currently available for download independently of bSuite. bTT allows FriendFeed updates, comments, comment replies, and likes. It is currently available for Windows.

MySocial 24×7 is a Firefox plugin that allows you to access your FriendFeed timeline from your sidebar (covered here). You can filter your timeline by friend, or by feed source (Youtube, Amazon, RSS). MySocial 24×7 has also released an Adobe AIR desktop application (covered here). The desktop application provides the same functionality of the Firefox sidebar in an attractive desktop application.

NoiseRiver is a new web application launched yesterday, from FeedEgo, that uses FriendFeed’s API to filter out some of the noise. You can login through the site, and import your keywords from del.icio.us, or input them manually, and NoiseRiver will color code your feed according to your interests or neighborhood. When you input your keywords, you can rate your them with a slider from “love” to “hate” and from then on your timeline will be color-coded, green or red, to show what you’ll probably like or not. NoiseRiver provides a full FriendFeed user experience, allowing for sharing and comments.

FriendFeedMachine is a web application that allows you to organize your friends list into close friends, and people you just want to follow. It does a lot to clean up the problem of “noise” in FriendFeed, by making sure that what your friends say doesn’t get lost in the mix with heavy posters.

Feedalizr, enables you to post text, links, images and video to FriendFeed from your desktop. You can drag and drop images into your post, or you can take a picture with your webcam. You can also post video through Feedalizr through your webcam. It hosts the video on the Feedalizr site, and includes a link in your post. You can filter your timeline, and just yesterday they added a new feature that allows you to take advantage of tabs. You can open new tabs with specific user’s timelines, separate from your main friend timeline. Feedalizr runs on Adobe AIR.

Filter by Service is a Greasemonkey script that allows you to filter your timeline by service. It displays a box with all of the service icons, and you can filter the public timelime, your friends timeline, or any user’s timeline by service. For example, if you are browsing TechCrunch’s timeline and click on the Twitter service icon, you will see TechCrunch’s tweets. A similar script, Filter Icons, places the service icons in a neat row on the top of the timeline, but it does not display all of the service icons, just the ones that are used on the page.

Remove Visited Links, a Greasemonkey script, removes links that you’ve already visited. A very useful script that really cleans up your timeline by removing content that you’ve already viewed.

Read Later, is a Greasemonkey script that adds a “Later” link under every post, and adds a “Read Later” tab to the top. This enables you to bookmark things, within FriendFeed, that you find interesting and want to save for later.

FriendFeed Comments is a WordPress plugin that can take comments and likes made on FriendFeed, and place them into the related post on WordPress. On your blog, you will see the comment along with the commenter’s FriendFeed image and link. The plugin also allows (as an option) a separate FriendFeed comment entry, so your readers can enter FriendFeed comments from your blog page.

FF To Go is a mobile site that you can access from any mobile phone’s web browser. It has a simple interface that shows the 10 most recent posts from you, your friends, or the public timeline. It adds no special features, but remains consistent with the FriendFeed user interface.