Got a real-time ego problem? Get a room!

Oh, be honest. You’ve searched for yourself on Google, right?

That’s an ego search. Here’s mine.

But doing ego searches today is far more complex than it was back in 1998 when I did my first Google ego search.

Today you have to look at what people are saying about you on Twitter, I use Twitter Search for that. On blogs (I use Google’s blog search for that). On friendfeed (you can search on stuff there). On Facebook. If you’re in the news you’ll want to track what’s said about you on Google News. And in other places.

What’s the best place to do that? Well, you might try a friendfeed room. Here’s my ego room. You can watch what people around the world are saying about me — in real time.

But, seriously, let’s stop talking about me for a while. My ego is big enough. Let’s talk about what you might do with a room like this that collects RSS and other real-time feeds.

1. You could create a room to track an event, or a tag on Twitter for an event. That’s what I just did with my Consumer Electronic room.
2. Want to get a group of people together who talk about certain topics? Here’s a room that is collecting tweets and blogs from doctors and health care professionals.
3. Got a blogging network and want to have a place to discuss it? Here’s the room for the Read/Write Web team.
4. Are you a company that’s trying to support your users in real time? Here’s Evernote’s room.

You can see all the rooms I’m following by visiting my friendfeed account and clicking on my rooms on the bottom right side of the page.

Anyway, sign in, and you can get your own ego-feeding real-time room. :-)

Let us know what you’re doing with your room, leave the URL in the comments here.

  • http://twitter.com/franswaa frank

    Very useful post Robert. Thanks for sharing.

    Funny enough, I ran across the FF room for healthcare pros yesterday. pretty amazing and would seem to be extreamly useful for niche type networks of people that want to collaborate/share.

    @Kiran i like social mention … i should use it more :)


    http://twitter.com/franswaa

  • http://twitter.com/franswaa frank

    Very useful post Robert. Thanks for sharing.

    Funny enough, I ran across the FF room for healthcare pros yesterday. pretty amazing and would seem to be extreamly useful for niche type networks of people that want to collaborate/share.

    @Kiran i like social mention … i should use it more :)


    http://twitter.com/franswaa

  • http://twitter.com/franswaa frank

    Very useful post Robert. Thanks for sharing.

    Funny enough, I ran across the FF room for healthcare pros yesterday. pretty amazing and would seem to be extreamly useful for niche type networks of people that want to collaborate/share.

    @Kiran i like social mention … i should use it more :)


    http://twitter.com/franswaa

  • http://twitter.com/franswaa frank

    Very useful post Robert. Thanks for sharing.

    Funny enough, I ran across the FF room for healthcare pros yesterday. pretty amazing and would seem to be extreamly useful for niche type networks of people that want to collaborate/share.

    @Kiran i like social mention … i should use it more :)


    http://twitter.com/franswaa

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://myphillynetwork.com/ AnthonyF.

    I’ve made one for buying consumer products: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/consumr

    and one for world news:
    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/newz

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://twitter.com/ladinah Dinah

    Started a room with feeds on the environment, green living, permaculture, climate change, peak oil, new economy. Wanted to track info on what are important issues in today’s world. >> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/eco-friendly

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • http://alanrobbins.blogspot.com/ K_Alan_Robbins

    Very useful post for bloggers and companies alike. There are a plethora of social search engines/mashups out there these days, they are like weeds in my lawn.

    I’ll check out FF, using SocialMention* at the moment for this.

    Thanks Again

    K. Alan Robbins

  • Vishal

    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

  • Vishal

    Good idea!

  • Vishal

    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

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    Good idea!

  • Vishal

    Good idea!

  • Vishal

    Good idea!

  • http://polizeros.com/ Bob Morris

    Thanks for the excellent ideas.

    Just started a room to track Madoff and Marc Dreier news.

    http://friendfeed.com/rooms/financialscandal