An Easy Way to Migrate From Twitter to FriendFeed

future features and limited partnerships aren't what we're looking for here. We just want an easy way to keep track of our friends across multiple sites.

FriendFeed is one of the standout ways to do that. The site allows people to funnel in content from just about everywhere and offers real-time updates. FriendFeed is also easy on the eyes, which is important if you're spending countless hours staring at it.

But making the leap to FriendFeed is not without some pain. For instance we find FriendFeed a better, more up-to-the-moment way to keep track of Twitter posts than Twitter itself. But unfortunately FriendFeed doesn't offer an easy way to transfer all the people you're following on Twitter directly into FriendFeed, which is where Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact Sync comes in handy.

The service is a very simple, but invaluable tool that finds all the people you're following on Twitter and matches them up with their FriendFeed accounts. The sync tool works by grabbing your Twitter friends list and then searching FriendFeed for the same usernames.

You then get links to follow the same contacts on FriendFeed, making it simple to migrate from one to the other.

Obviously not all the people you're following on Twitter will have FriendFeed accounts as well, but fear not, FriendFeed has that scenario covered with its "imaginary" friends -- just plug in the missing person's Twitter RSS feed and you can follow them on FriendFeed.

Note that to use Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact Sync you will need to give the app your login info for Twitter, but the site doesn't store your info so it's relatively safe. In the case of FriendFeed you'll need to know your FriendFeed remote key.

We wish we could say there's a better way to move from one online service to another, but as it stands there really isn't a universal solution, nor, sadly, is there any sign of one on the horizon. But in the mean time clever tools like Twitter-to-FriendFeed Contact Sync can make things a little easier.

By Scott Gilbertson for Wired.com