Mac Users: The Absolute Best Friendfeed App Is…

Like a lot of people, I dig FriendFeed. I find that it is much easier to have conversations on FriendFeed. And those conversations are based around the actual content we all produce on the Internet. Frickin’ awesome.

The FriendFeed API, of course, allows for the creation of applications that will allow you to monitor FriendFeed from your desktop. One of them is Twhirl. Twhirl is awesome for Twitter. But, for FriendFeed? No. And it is because of FriendFeed’s structure.

FriendFeed has structured conversation grouped around pieces of content. Whenever somebody likes or comments on one of the threads, the entire thread bumps to the top of the interface. This is good for community, but when you’re working with a slender little desktop app like Twhirl, it makes it really hard to participate without a LOT of scrolling. Twhirl makes FriendFeed seem noisier than it needs to be.

The best FriendFeed app is…the FriendFeed website itself. Their interface is clean and easy to use. It is also snappy and it reloads automatically using javascript so you don’t have to refresh it manually.

But, what if you won’t want to use your web browser? Well, take a look at FluidApp for the Mac. FluidApp will take any website and turn it into an application. So, make your own FriendFeed client!

It will even use the website’s Favicon and turn it into the application icon show you can dock it (see above). When you generate the application, you get a tidy little APP file. Just stick it in your Applications folder and run it.

Unfortunately for Windows people, FluidApp is only for the Mac. Hey, there’s a reason I bought one. Besides, you can see from my image above that I’m running VMWare Fusion, too, which has Windows XP running. So, I can use the best of both OSes.

Mac is cool like that.

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