Part 7 of my pre-season post covers Google Subscribed with setup and tips for FriendFeed for the 30 Day Challenge in 2008 followed by a checklist of action items.

Google Subscribed and FriendFeed Features and Settings

1. Log in to the Thirty Day Challenge Dashboard and click the icon “Add my expertise to your Google web searches” (highlighted in red below). Thereafter, confirm the subscription.
   
   
2. Google Subscribed Links allows you to create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages. This service can be used to create custom pages for your niche and add value to your customers’ search results. The possibilities are endless.
3. FriendFeed allows you to discover what your friends are sharing and allows you to share your things from the sites like YouTube, Flickr while providing a central place to comment and discuss.
4. Create an account with FriendFeed. The second step allows you to find your friends either via FaceBook or by importing the address book from GMail, Yahoo, MSN etc… The recommended step is to install the FriendFeed Facebook application that automatically finds your friends in Facebook who are using FriendFeed. Skip the importing of address book as well as subscribing to other recommended feeds. My FriendFeed is at Dipankar.
5. After creating an account, log into FriendFeed and click the “spice up your feed” link and check out the 43 services that you can connect to and import feeds from.
   
   
6. Familiarize yourself with the FriendFeed tabs. The “friends” tab shows an aggregation of all of your friends’ feeds, the “rooms” tab gives you access to the rooms that you have created or joined, the “me” tab gives you access to things you have shared and allows you to interact with people who have commented on your feed and the “everyone” tab shows all the public feeds.
   
   
7. Join the 30 Day Challenge FriendFeed room and it gives you an option to share with the room. Add the room into your Google Reader.
8. FriendFeed “friend” feeds can be filtered by the best of the day, week or month. Alternatively, search can be used to narrow down the list (highlighted in red).
   
   
9. FriendFeed “room” tab gives you access to all the discussions in the room, you can check out the members in the room with options to subscribe or block them and search through the feeds in the room.
10. FriendFeed “me” tab gives you an overview of all the sharing, discussions, subscriptions and rooms.
11. FriendFeed “everyone” tab gives you an overview of all public feeds which can be narrowed down via search. The FriendFeed Advanced Search is quite powerful.

Action Items for Google Subscribed and FriendFeed Features and Settings

1. Add Dan’s Google Subscribed Link and familiarize yourself with Google Subscribed Links and how you can use it for your niche.
2. Create an account with FriendFeed and import FaceBook friends.
3. Familiarize yourself with FriendFeed and its search and filter functions.
4. Join the 30 Day Challenge FriendFeed room.