Stuart has created an initial crowd that includes several well-known residents of the social media space, all collected in one place.

I can see some use to CrowdStatus. I could put IABC members in one group, people who post great links in another, and SNCR fellows in yet another. Stuart plans to expand beyond Twitter, which could make the service more interesting, aggregating the status of defined groups of people regardless of whether they come from Facebook, Jaiku, or wherever.

But how often would I visit the site to check the status of each group? And an RSS feed defeats the purpose—I can already get that at FriendFeed.

Would this be useful for you?

I’m also intrigued by Shyftr, which I learned about from Brian Solis. Shyftr positions itself this way:

We’ve built a networking community solely focused on feeds. Feeds have traditionally been cumbersome to find. For the most part users have had to scour the Internet in search of feeds that interest them. Now you can find feeds by searching content brought directly to you through the Shyftr network, as well as feeds that other users follow by viewing their feed list. Do you like feeds that your friends or other users are following? It’s simple to “shyft” a feed and add to your list of content you read on a daily basis.

That sounds useful. While Brian worries about the further fragmenting of the conversation, I’m more interested in the discovery of great content.

More services like this are undoubtedly on the way. It’ll be interesting to see which ones stand the test of time.