I think Friendfeed is a useful educational tool for two reasons. First, Friendfeed acts as an aggregator, or RSS feed, of its own, gathering all entries made in various Web 2.0 services into one central location. If a student or colleague with whom I am collaborating posts a picture on Flickr, or bookmarks a site on Diigo, I will see immediately just by visiting one site.
With Friendfeed, I have the ability to create a private Room for my students. This will help limit the discussion to our particular group and enable me as the teacher and the student group to easily view info without having to sift through non relevant entries from others.
Friendfeed is a great tool for telecollaborative projects. Teachers can setup rooms that include students from multiple schools or rooms for colleagues in a particular discipline. Friendfeed can be used as the starting point, enabling students and teachers to do a quick check for updates before wasting unnecessary time trying to track down who did updates and where.
Check out some other Friendfeed uses from this Digital Inspiration blog entry titled "FriendFeed Tips: Do You Use All The Great Features of Friend Feed?"
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