Today, for the first time in recent memory, FriendFeed has experienced a major outage. Perhaps it's coincidence with the likes of Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) evangelizing FriendFeed on Twitter.

We really liked the ability to add a twitter widget to our site, but were wondering if the same could be done with FriendFeed. The answer of course is yes. Now it should be known that adding a FriendFeed widget to you iGoogle homepage is very easy and supported by FriendFeed. What you're about to see is not obvious though.

What do you get when you take one part RSS News Reader and one part Social Network? The minds behind FriendFeed decided to find out.