As mentioned earlier, I like FriendFeed. One thing I found frustrating was the lack of a feed just tracking what my friends are doing. The nearest thing provided includes my own activities. I know about these!

I posted in FF’s Google Group, but after a few days there are still no replies. However, a workaround is to use Yahoo! Pipes to manipulate the feed, filtering out my own activity.

Pipes is quite intuitive, so I’ll just outline the design of my FF pipe:

1. Use a Fetch Feed node from the Sources section to retrieve your feed from FriendFeed. There is an authorisation ID in the url, so don’t share it!
2. Add a Filter node from Operators. Set the filter to block all posts where the title contains “You ”. I would have preferred to use a regex here, but the logical values (“^You .*” etc) didn’t work.
3. Output!

Pipes output to RSS, email, SMS, etc, so you can now use your FriendFeed-without-you feed anywhere you like. I’m just using it to track how my peeps iz rollin’.