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Few months ago, we silently added a feature where a user’s activity stream can be “followed”. We simply added an RSS feed of the user’s activities as captured from all SezWho enabled social media properties. Things were calm until 2 weeks ago when Jitendra posted a HowTo on getting the SezWho activity stream into FriendFeed. We immediately got a few feature requests. We started working on some cool new things in the feed. For now, we quickly added one.

The most wanted feature was an ability to filter blog posts from the activity stream. Why? Apparently, after joining FriendFeed, the first thing people do is add their own blog in FriendFeed, hence everybody wanted the flexibility to filter their own blog posts from SezWho activity stream. Here’s how you do it:

1. The default feed url of the activity stream right now looks like this:

http://feeds.sezwho.com/activitystream/rss/Indus_Khaitan/91321

2. Add “/off=post” (without the quotes) to the feed url, which now becomes:

http://feeds.sezwho.com/activitystream/rss/Indus_Khaitan/91321/off=post

3. Yup, That’s it. Cool, eh.

We love your suggestions. Keep ‘em coming

A number of users have asked us about how they can see their SezWho activity streams in FriendFeed. Below are the simple steps to make it happen.

1. Find your SezWho feed from your profile popup. (if you don’t have your profile popup, just leave a comment here and see your profile popup from hovering over the check me out link)

2. Get your feed URL

3. Import the feed into FriendFeed using Blog type feed

4. Enter the feed url from step 2

5. See the results.

Your activity feed is now in FriendFeed and users can follow you across the web.

Now all the benefits of SezWho service still remain - content stays in your site, no SEO implications etc.. So if a user click on any of these links, they will take you back to your own site rather than Sezwho. And of course you have a richer feed with your posts as well as activity across BBs etc.

Update: We now support filtering of the feed to show just comments or posts or both…Check it out at

http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/06/05/filtering-the-feed-activity-stream/