See this post on FriendFeed, from 1/26/09, where Benjamin Golub from FriendFeed discusses the difference between media RSS and RSS enclosures. He mentions that they’re working on a way to accommodate RSS enclosures in addition to media RSS tags. A day or so later, they pushed the upgrade to the live site, as he states in this post.

While this is great news for the feeds from my photography catalog, it’s also great news for everyone else who uses RSS enclosure tags in their feeds. It means their photos and potentially other media, such as audio and video files, will be readily displayed on FriendFeed, making for a more interesting feed browsing experience. More specifically, it means that people who use the RSS module for Gallery 2 in conjunction with FriendFeed, like I do, will be able to readily display thumbnails of their photos in their FF streams.

The thing that makes me happy is that I didn’t even have to lobby for this. I didn’t have to bug them. Ben jumped in to help me just because he’s a nice guy. Did I mention that Ben is also the one who pointed me to SliceHost when I had problems with my other web hosts? What can I say but to offer him a big thank you for all his wonderful help!

By the way, FriendFeed now also has a way for users to test their feeds before adding them to their accounts. It was back on 12/12/08, a month and a half ago, that Ben mentioned they were working on that feature at FF in an email to me. I’m really glad to see it has become available.