“You can now add a daily comic book cover to Friendfeed, which will show as a thumbnail here: just add http://www.coverbrowser.com as the blog of an imaginary friend.”
I optimized the Cover Browser RSS feed to work together with Friendfeed. To create an imaginary friend, switch to Friend settings -> imaginary -> create... - Philipp Lenssen
Why not create a Cover Browser room and import this feed so that people can like and comment on covers if they wish? - Tony Ruscoe
Here's the feed http://www.coverbrowser.com/rs... , if you look at the source in Firefox jump to where it say "<media" to get an idea. I had media in it before but FF guided me to include a thumbnail below around 525*175, as only that made it show here. - Philipp Lenssen
Just create an imaginary friend in Friendfeed (friend settings -> imaginary -> Create...), name the friend "My Blog Feedback" or similar, and enter the following Google blog backlinks search URL into the Blog feed address -- replace "example.com" with your own blog domain:
http://blogsearch.google.com/b... - Philipp Lenssen
And now at the Beta.friendfeed.com site, you can create a friend list called "Site feedback" or similar and move all your site feedback imaginary friends out of home and into that section, if you like to unclutter the main view. - Philipp Lenssen
That's an interesting possibility for bloggers using Google's Blogger.com. The rest of us using WordPress or Tyepepad we get notifications in the backend of our blogs for each comment, trackback or pingback. - Matthias Schwenk
Mathias, above works for Wordpress even when people don't send a trackback (as not everyone does I think). This feedback function works for any website not just blogs, by the way... I'm currently using it for bomomo.com and watchtolearnchinese.com, both not blogs... - Philipp Lenssen
Philipp, that's right. We shouldn't underestimate the fact that many people (including some web and marketing agencies) didn't get the idea of trackbacks yet and therefore don't use them. - Matthias Schwenk
I don't understand. Isn't this just (ab)using FF as a feed reader, where one of the feeds you might be interested in is your egoblogsearch? You could just as easily pull that feed into Reader, or you could just as easily import *all* your feeds as FF imaginary friends. Is there a special connection between "blog feedback" and FF that I'm missing? - ⓞnor
Absolutely, I'm partly using FF as my feed reader :) You may call it abuse, but I don't use any traditional feed reader, and e.g. Bloglines and Google Reader isn't for me, so I call it use/ use case... - Philipp Lenssen
I use a feed reader to read things I know I want to read. I use FF to read things I don't know I want to read. - Amit Patel
in a relative sense, that would be true... the 1 that's left over is so incredibly insignificant compared to the numbers we started with... - Tad - just Tad
“Dear Friendfeed: What's the best way to store & serve static (image, zip) files? Amazon S3/ Elastic Block? Looks like xkcd uses lighttpd for allowing hotlinking”
