socialmedian RSS feeds, friendfeed, and a search workaround, and those pesty registration requirements

As previously noted, one of socialmedian users'  top feature requests since we went beta a few days ago has been for us to RSS enable all the socialmedian pages so that people can get their sociamedian feeds anywhere they prefer.  Makes a lot of sense and is something we had hoped to get done prior to beta but decided not to hold the beta up for.

So, today, we have now RSS enabled the following pages:

• The "My Networks" feed on your homepage.  This is the aggregated news feed of the news networks you belong to.  Here's mine. 
  
• The "Me" feed on your homepage.  This is the feed of your key activities on socialmedian.  Here's mine.  We have formatted this feed so that it will work well if you put it in a widget on your blog or on sites like FriendFeed.  Each item starts with the activity, such as, "Clipped on socialmedian:  [followed by title of story].  I've gone ahead and added this feed to my friendfeed so that my friendfeed friends can track the stories i'm reading on socialmedian without having to always visit socialmedian.   It looks like this on friendfeed:

Above you see that I recently "posted" 11 entries on socialmedian, 3 are stories I clipped, and 1 is a story I commented on.  We're still hoping that FriendFeed will work with us soon on an actual integration between socialmedian and FF (and we have every reason to believe they will), but this will do in the meantime.

• Or, you can just pull an RSS feed of your clipped stories (just your clips, not your comments or other activities), by taking the feed of your public socialmedian page.  Like mine here. 
  
• Every socialmedian News Network now also has an RSS feed.  Such as this one for our most popular News Network, the Web 2.0 News Network, which has 1700+ members already.  (note: you can actually get 2 feeds from every News Network page, stories sorted by recently popular or just recent).
• We'll next also RSS enable every other page on socialmedian, including the "My Newsmakers" feed, which many of our users have been clammoring for.  (That's the main feed many have said they would subscribe to in their google reader -- that and the My Networks feed).

Also noteworthy:

• A number of users have been asking for search on socialmedian.  Yeah, we need that too and haven't gotten around to it.  In the meantime, Brian Carter has shown how you can just use Google to site search socialmedian, as in this example with searching for socialmedian stories on Twitter.
  
  
• Finally, we hear you loud and clear that we've got to do away with so many registration requirements for socialmedian.  That was not on purpose, rather it was a holdover from our alpha period when we had to have everything behind the registration/invite wall.  Yesterday we enabled visitors to click on all external links without registering.  In the coming days/weeks we'll get towards opening the site up entirely, as appropriate.