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FriendFeed Feedback: AJ Batac posted a message
“"Search" can be confused with "Post"”
"Search" can be confused with "Post"
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17 hours ago - Link
See shot above - AJ Batac
took a couple days for me to get used to it. - martinmedia
I don't think it'll be long before everyone prefers it this way. :-) - Slippy Lane
Slippy everyone who prefers it this way are already FF addicts. New users will still be confused. ;) - AJ Batac
Er, I don't see how. One says "post" and the other says "search", except in your screenshot. - Slippy Lane
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Yuvi posted a message
“Got a Hair Cut. Still looking as Fugly as ever :(”
16 hours ago - Link
Pics or it didn't happen! - Michelle Miller
@Michelle - You want pics of an insecure 17 year old who thinks he looks ugly so that you can further blast him? - Yuvi
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SRSLY, I need to get something done about this. I look as good as a Pig that's been kissed all over by a bunch of snakes. - Yuvi
That doesn't sound like a bad thing. - Mark Trapp
I posted my post-cut pic, so can you :P - Michael W. May (Joffi)
@Mark - REALLY? - Yuvi
Just shave it...it's so much easier - Jason Carreira
@Jeason - I'll look fuglier. Tried it once. - Yuvi
Shaving is to regular a need; I buzz once a month and am happily scruffy - Michael W. May (Joffi) via twhirl
I cut my own hair, electric shaver with a #2 or #3 clip. Usually comes out nice, about half an inch at most. - Colby Olson
Last year, I opted to make the most of my hair before the genetic mail-pattern-baldness set in. It's now down to the middle of my back, but I'm seeing the first signs of recession on my forehead. I reckon I've got another year before I get the clippers out! - Slippy Lane
@Slippy - Darn gender confusion (Thought you were female till now) - Yuvi
lol, you should look a little more closely at my avatar on, oh, only every single service I use. The beard is a dead giveaway.:-) - Slippy Lane
@Slippy - Uhm, I donno. Happened with Cyndy, Akiva and a lots of other folks too. The Name (or handle) just sounds feminine... - Yuvi
lol, it's cool. Happens to us all. - Slippy Lane
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Yuvi posted a message
“Bye Bye FriendFeed/Twitter for a week or so. It's goanna be full of 1. Politics, 2. Religion. I couldn't care less.”
15 hours ago - Link
Call me when Mona comes back (Bacon, however disgusting it is, is more welcome to me than this) - Yuvi
can't really blame the Americans. Elections are important. Just wait for ours next year! - Rahul Das
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where did mona go! - Allen Stern
maybe you just need to be more vocal, and dump tons of technical and statistical information. Remember, loudest voice wins. - Rob Diana
@Rahul - Let's bring the Rediff commentators to FriendFeed at that time! Wheee! - Yuvi
sadly yuvi, ff will be all about politics for the rest of the year - Allen Stern
Sorry to hear that Yuvi, but you'll have a long wait as the elections aren't until November - Sally Church
@Allen - if it's still like this after Sunday, then I'm going to follow Rob's advice. PDC will be _just_ before the elections, that's goanna be interesting. - Yuvi
where's the religion going to be? I don't want to miss that - Nathan Rein
dear Lazy FriendFeed: please create a greasemonkey script that uses REGEX to automatically hide anything political or religious, and that bumps bacon posts to the top - .LAGizmoto
don't lie, you're just taking a week off to let your hair grow back in - Cee Bee
@Cee Bee - See my profile pic. Be scared. Very scared :P - Yuvi
I dig the pic, Yuvi - Josh Haley
@Josh - it was taken when I was in the middle of a depression :D - Yuvi
Religion and politics are my favoured targets of ridicule - after obsessive conspiracy nuts, of course. :-P - Slippy Lane
@Slippy - I too was like that once, but then decided that I had far better uses of my time and energy. Was getting too worked up over stuff. Tried reading conservaepedia talk pages? - Yuvi
ditto Yuvi ... we need more Canadians here .. less politics - fotographic
well good things can come from a bout of depression after all, eh Yuvi? - Josh Haley
@Josh - Yep :D - Yuvi
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Joanmarie posted a message
“Am I the only one hearing the voice of Jack (of Will and Grace fame) upon seeing "Tad - just Tad"?”
15 hours ago - Link
Let's start a petition to get it back to Just Tad. He changed it from a lambda after a long and bloody fight. - Yuvi
It was truly an epic battle, and I'm still not sure who outgeeked whom. - Slippy Lane
Also, I imagine Tad saying "Tad. Just .... Tad" in a kind of Clint Eastwood whisper. ;-) - Slippy Lane
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Slippy Lane posted a message
“Too many "Too many US politics posts" posts in my feed. My hide button has worn down to the nub. :-)”
15 hours ago - Link
I contributed to the noise, and now once again here in this comment. One person's noise is one person's signal... :) - Yuvi
lol - Slippy Lane
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Slippy Lane posted a message
“"Friendfeed is for real-time topical conversation and more. Facebook is to connect, introduce, sneaky e-mail .... (and not play Scrabble)" - Charlie Anzman”
15 hours ago - Link
Above quote is a comment posted by Charlie on the "Friendfeed is for geeks, Facebook is for everyone else" comment stream. - Slippy Lane
I like both - Paul L. McCord Jr. via twhirl
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Yuvi posted a message
“Dear Tad - Lambda expressions as names are NOT cool. SRSLY Lame.”
17 hours ago - Link
myResponse.Send(yuvi => me.StickTongueOutAt(yuvi)); - Tad - just Tad
Can you explain that in Pascal? :P - John Worthington
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rofl@Tad - Michael W. May (Joffi) via twhirl
Tad, that's not even syntactically correct C#! It should've been: myResponse.Send(yuvi => this.StickTongueOutAt(yuvi)); - Yuvi
You missed a paren, and Me in VB9 = This in C# :P - Yuvi
But still, THIS IS SERIOUSLY LAME! LAME, LAME, LAME! - Yuvi
Besides, if that is even a library, it's a seriously lamely designed one. - Yuvi
me is the name of an object previously instantiated. :P will fix the parens - Tad - just Tad
As oppsed to debating and correcting the syntax of said lameness :P - John Worthington
Still, that's a seriously lame design. Better one would be myResponse.Send(Yuvi, Response.StickOutTongue); - Yuvi
But, please, can we have the name back? - Yuvi
Boys, can't you play nice? ;) - Yolanda
Is this better? - Tad - just Tad
@Tad - Bad, bad design! :P - Yuvi
Beautiful. Only programmers can argue like this. :-) - Slippy Lane
It's more of just an old dude tormenting the hell out of a young guy - hehe - Tad - just Tad
@Tad - really, you'll appreciate this more if you had been tormented before at Orkut. SRSLY. - Yuvi
@Slippy - It's Fun! - Yuvi
lol - I've been tormented for a greater length of time than you've been alive :D :P - Tad - just Tad
@Tad - Nice way to squash an argument *Turns around, folds arms, makes smug face* - Yuvi
Yuvi -- I've updated my name just for you. - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
@willia4 - What language is that? o_O Ruby? Py? - Yuvi
Yuvi: Objective-C. - Mark Trapp
@Mark - And that's a Lambda? o_O? - Yuvi
Objective-C, FTW! (I also reached the limits of the account name length. I wanted to do [james setNick:@"willia4"], but it was too long. - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
No, no. No lambdas in objective-c. Though they're looking at adding closures... - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
@willia4 - So, what is that abomination? A class variable set? - Yuvi
It's setting the "nick" property of the instance of whatever class I happen to be in ("self" == VB's "Me" == C#'s "this"). I could also do [self setValue:@"willia4" forKey:@"nick"] and the runtime would figure out where my variable was and I wouldn't have to write the method myself. Cocoa is amazing like that. - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
Yuvi: it's equivalent to this->setNick("willia4") in other, unclean, languages. Just a method invocation. - Mark Trapp
SLRY - this convo needed to be posted in code junkie room=> http://friendfeed.com/rooms/co.... Secondly ThisConvo(Y:PERSON, T:PERSON2): STRING do Result := ThisConvo.NotStupid.YuviTad.name end - Peter Dawson
*speechless*. Is that supposed to be beautiful/amazing? I mean, I consider this->setNick("willia4") to be am abomination. Properties ftw. - Yuvi
Yuvi I could've done self.nick = @"willia4" ... but then it doesn't really look like ObjC anymore. ;) And looking like ObjC is the whole point! - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
@Peter Dawson - Now, Is that PASCAL? Don't tell me you have a Pascal fetish.. - Yuvi
@willia4 - Sounds better :) What's that @ doing, btw? (Note - I don't exactly favor the C style programming languages :D ) - Yuvi
I'm so tempted to start talking in 6502 machine code, that'll teach you whippersnappers ;-) - Slippy Lane
@Slippy - You're going to set a class variable and pass 'round a lambda in 6502 machine code? :P - Yuvi
@Yuvi since ObjC is a proper subset of C, they couldn't use quotes for strings (since quotes in C mean "array of characters"). So ObjC uses the @ to set apart string literals which will get turned into an NSString* object by the compiler. - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
The problem with being a kid spoilt by years of VS use is that you get totally pissed when you see inconsistently named object names, despite the fact that Win32 naming is a clusterf. - Yuvi
Yuvi, if one can hand-code a multiple document interface in 6502M/C then one can do anything. Now then, what's a lambda, sonny? :-D - Slippy Lane
I'm with Slippy... 10001101101111101011011001001011000000110100100101010000101101 10010101010101101001001010101101101111010101010110100111011111 01010011000101001010101010010101011111111110100111110001010000 - Kim
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FriendFeed Feedback: Here's... possible248! posted a message
“In search results, there should be an option to sort entries by most comments and likes.”
August 16 at 11:15 am - Link
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FriendFeed Feedback: Mark Krynsky posted a message
“please add the ability for blog services to display the favicon for the domain instead of the generic rss icon. Example: http://lifestreamblog.com/favi...”
August 15 at 1:02 pm - Link
Uber-like - Steve Isaacs
Oh yes, so none of this rubbish generic RSS favicon everywhere - Kol Tregaskes
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FriendFeed Feedback: Varun Mahajan posted a message
“A feature request: Please put 'Open in new tab/window' link for each post”
August 24 at 4:37 pm - Link
What's wrong with right click -> open link in new window? Or better yet, set browser to force links to open in new window... - Mona N.
+1 Mona - Kyle Lacy
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Ctrl click (for windows) - Justin Korn
Hi Varun, this feature already exists. Click on the Account link in the top right corner of the screen, check the "Open links in new windows" checkbox, and click the Save Changes button. - Mark Trapp
I think there is an option in your settings for this, or like Justin says hold Ctrl then click on the link. - Kol Tregaskes
Mark: Have you written a FriendFeed book yet? :) +1 - Kyle Lacy
I'm ghost-writing David Pogue's "FriendFeed: the Missing Manual." - Mark Trapp
Mark,when you finish that book,send me one,lol - Steve
This feature doesn't work for the iPhone interface, which is vital if you want to view a link before liking it. I should clear this up, it begins to open the link in the current window before opening the link again in another window. The result is two windows open of the same link and your FriendFeed window changed so you've lost your position on the page. - Andrew Trinh
Or just middle click (the scroll wheel button). - Tanath
I agree, no need to weigh down friendfeed with things that your browser can already do perfectly well. - Slippy Lane
I'd like to have this behavior on the iPhone interface. - Brome
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FriendFeed Feedback: Steve Isaacs posted a message
“I have a post on my page that no matter how many new comments it gets, it doesn't bubble up anymore.”
Monday at 11:07 am - Link
(http://friendfeed.com/e/9506dd...) and yes, it is an inflammatory topic, but I'm not posting because of that, but to show the technical anomaly I'm seeing. - Steve Isaacs
We stop bubbling up a post after a certain amount of activity so threads don't go on "forever." This was based on feedback from a few inflammatory threads in the past that people were sick of seeing pop up in their feeds. - Bret Taylor
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What about an option for the original poster to close a thread? - Peter
Bret: thanks for the response. Is it based on "hides"? It can't be time based, since the post only went out last Saturday. - Steve Isaacs
Bret -- sometimes substantive, not inflammatory, conversations can go on for weeks. In fact, the more substantive the conversation, the longer it will go on, usually. Complex and nuanced topics require considerable elaboration. I would like to see all new comments in conversations bubble up, no matter how old. - Sean McBride
I agree with Bret, but the watermark should be at least 10-15D.. the same concept is in use at Blogoscopred , the thread is locked in at 30D. However, I think that there could be some "bubble up" logic created for Hot convos in terms of like, comments, hide ratios..across create_date and todate() - Peter Dawson
Since "hide" capability is now available, I wonder if this feature has outlived its usefulness. Let all posts bubble up regardless of traffic, and if people don't like the post, they can hide it. - Ontario Emperor
@Ontario, but what bubbles up for me, wont bubble up for you.. because your FF matrix is different to mine. this is where really FF needs to pull together innovations :)- that is, a post may bubble up, but the vertical movement is different to each other, remember the comments /hides could be in your circle of FF or it could outside your major friend cirlce ! - Peter Dawson
I agree with Sean and Ontario. If something bubbles up too much, just hide it. I wouldn't restrict a good discussion. - Hutch Carpenter
I think the FF team made the right decision overall... - Ben Parr
I think this is a positive feature, but I think something to fill the space left by the limitation on bubbling would be an option to "stick" a post to the top of the stream I'm viewing. - Slippy Lane
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FriendFeed Feedback: Colide81 posted a message
“Can we have a way to post to multiple places at once?”
Monday at 7:18 pm - Link
I'd only want to see this if it were coupled with a way for viewers to combine those multiple posts into one. I summarily remove cross-posters from my home feed as they take up to 5 times as much feed space as others. - Slippy Lane
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FriendFeed Feedback: Winfried Hoffmann posted a message
“New design: I put some friends in my "Favorites" list and expanded the list so I could easily jump to a specific person. Problem is, if I click on another list (e.g. Personal), the previous tree collapses. It would be great if the state of the list (expanded/collapsed) would be saved.”
Monday at 6:56 pm - Link
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FriendFeed Feedback: Vincent van Wylick posted a message
“Two filters that Friendfeed still needs: Filter by Service (e.g. create a music-friend-list and feed all last.fm entries to it), and Filter by Topic (i.e. hide all 'topic X' or feed all 'topic X' to a friend-category).”
Tuesday at 5:29 am - Link
Filtering by service would be awesome. - John
seems like you can filter by service, there just isn't a easy way to do it from the ui, http://beta.friendfeed.com/?se... - John
Can't you do that already via advanced search? (Watch out for the RSS feed at the end of the page ...) - Alexander Ebel
Actually, on each users page you can filter by services, would be nice to be able to do this for everyone from the ui - John
Try http://friendfeed.com/search/a... (You may leave the first entry free!) - Alexander Ebel
Search + Rss works awesome, thanks guys (and FriendFeed)! Now, I still need the option to "hide all Topic X (i.e. a keyword like Olympics or politics)" and I'm a happy camper. - Vincent van Wylick
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FriendFeed Feedback: Morton Fox posted a message
“In beta.friendfeed.com, I find it jarring that some of the bold black text are links. It's an interface inconsistency.”
Tuesday at 2:02 pm - Link
Yeah, so far it trips me out too. - Steve Isaacs
I actually quite like it... - Daniel Bruce
I don't, it's not what I expect from links (I expect them from being visible as links) and makes it appear as if the page suddenly has less features. There are enough studies that show that it's important that links are underlined. - sebmos
I added this userstyle to Mozilla Prism to turn those links blue at least: .l_person, .name a { color: #0000cc !important ; } - Morton Fox
Are there any instances of bold black text not containing links? I'm with you that it is weird (much like the choice of very light gray for comments), but I don't think it's an inconsistency. - Andrew Burd
Yes, there are. "Room Admins" and "Room Members (#)" are bold black text that are not links. - Morton Fox
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FriendFeed Feedback: Nathan Chase posted a link
A Solution for Multi-Service Status Update Users on FriendFeed
A Solution for Multi-Service Status Update Users on FriendFeed
Tuesday at 11:32 am - via Reshare - Link
just like the showing of many likes, you could have the same functionality for identical status updates to Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw, Brightkite, Pownce, Jaiku, etc. via multi-updating services like Ping.fm, Hellotxt, and updating.me - Nathan Chase
Nice image, I wish it were real... - Rodrigo Portela
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Nice idea, but it wouldn't make any sense for FriendFeed to do this. Imagine you're subscribed to all these services and tried to send a message to all of them. It would just create duplication-spam and annoy all of your followers. It's bad PR. FriendFeed is a a collector of feeds, nothing more. - Vincent van Wylick
Totally agree with Vincent van Wylick - Niki Costantini
@Vincent - well that's the idea is to eliminate the duplication spam and annoyance - people are going to want to push updates to multiple services for various reasons, and this idea is so that FriendFeed handles it elegantly in a way that doesn't fill a user's FriendFeed feed with duplicates. We want to avoid scenarios like: http://friendfeed.com/e/806412... - Nathan Chase
also, it could default to the first service posted, not necessarily FriendFeed - so it might read "posted a message on Twitter (and 3 other services)" - FriendFeed already consolidates multiple posts to a single service, why would it be "bad PR" to do it for multiple services? - Nathan Chase
I've had to purposely avoid using multiple status update services because this functionality doesn't exist. If this existed, I wouldn't be concerned about unintentionally spamming friends with duplicates on my FriendFeed feed anymore. - Nathan Chase
another thought is you could have a user-selectable "default" status service in the Account settings, while the others fall under the "(also on X other services)", that way the user has control over which service is displayed on their FriendFeed feed - Nathan Chase
@NathanChase I agree with you, the first service. I mean - look at your feeds, people. How many services & feeds do you have listed? Chances are someone thinks you're spammy (though should I feel happy I have multiple people following in multiple places at the same time?). However, if all the services allow you to link other services, it should be one nice fluid movement. If they would only all work together. - JCLeftie
FriendFeed should have nothing to do with actually trying to figure out what the user meant to do. If you don't want to spam friendfeed, don't add multiple services of the same type that you plan to duplicate content on. What is the point of doing that in the first place? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
@Rasheen, because you have different friends on different services, but you'd like all of them to see your updates - Nathan Chase
Nathan, your argument is very wordy, but the answer is simple: it's not FriendFeed's job (and you have 3rd party services that do it perfectly well). - Vincent van Wylick
Nathan, you still haven't answered the question. Why would you pipe it all into FriendFeed if you already know it's going to result in duplicates? It's up to the user to use the tools efficiently. If FriendFeed fixes your dups, what else should be their responsibility? (not trying to be antagonistic, but I don't understand why people think this is an FF issue) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
because FriendFeed shows your activity on various services. For example, I might post my location using Brightkite, and then later use Ping.fm to post a status update to Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, & Brightkite simultaneously. This has the unfortunate side effect of broadcasting the exact same update 4 times in a row on FriendFeed, where elsewhere they only see the single post. - Nathan Chase
@Rasheen - This is a Friendfeed issue because it makes Friendfeed less useful to have 3 identical messages in a row. People may want to add multiple services so that their FF friends can find them on other services they both may have in common. That doesn't mean people want to read their messages multiple times. - Andrew Burd
@Andrew - correct. - Nathan Chase
socialthing does this and it works pretty well. Some sites like plurk don't have a proper api so it's harder to remove the duplication. - Charles Lacz
This is and will continue to be a Friendfeed issue unless it's does get addressed in one way or another. - Tsega Dinka
FriendFeed is to provide a feed of all services you put into it. If you put services into it that you know are duplicates and you don't really want output from those services in your feed, you are setting yourself up for failure and it's your own fault. FriendFeed is not where you dump all your accounts so that people can find you on individual services. There are other sites that do this. Have you guys ever heard of GIGO? Use the right tools for the job you're trying to do. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
@Rahsheen, but that's just it - often times it won't be duplicates... there are plenty of times when you might respond on a single service to a friend - which will show up on your FriendFeed - but then other times, you're posting to multiple services... as i said before, FriendFeed already takes care of multiple posts by saying something like "X posted X messages on Twitter" whenever you have more than one post to a service - Is it that much of a stretch to apply that to multiple services? - Nathan Chase
@Rahsheen - Why is Friendfeed not for dumping all your sites so people can find you or keep up with you? If that's the job we're trying to do and Friendfeed is clearly setup to do this job, we have the right tool. Don't box us in, man! - Andrew Burd
I feel your pain, but I still don't think I want FriendFeed to be in charge of deciding which of my updates should be merged together. I use several different micro-blogging services. I manage to make things work with a minimum of dups. Sometimes you have to really think about how you're using these services. Are you really that active on ALL of them? Is it really necessary to use Ping.fm that often? If your subscribers would be upset about seeing this update more than once, was it really that important? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Don't mean to argue, I just don't think it's FriendFeed's burden to filter my feed. I also don't think I want them to touch my feed except to bundle multiple messages from the same service as that still gives the viewer the option to view my feed the way I put it together. Maybe they add the feature, but I hope they don't bother. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
I agree that duping posts across a lot of services is pointless. But some people love it. It's their right. I think it would be good for Friendfeed to address this obvious issue. Expecting each individual to come to this same realization seems overly idealistic to me. - Andrew Burd
@Rah I just have one thought. You have if I recollect accurately struggled with this problem and come up with your own solutions. I think it would be great if you gave Nathan some tips possibly even a video of your tricks and tips.. PS. You know I love you but you are being argumentative. ;) - Roger Kondrat
Perhaps I can say it a different way: I have different friends on different services, and I share that activity on multiple services here on FriendFeed. I use Ping.fm so that I can reach them with a message I think would be important to all. FriendFeed reflects this in a way I think is inefficiently consolidated for clarity. It's just a cleaner way of showing my web activity - that's all I'm searching for. - Nathan Chase
LOL@Roger, I agree and I apologize. For anyone interested, my thoughts on Ping.fm and FriendFeed are here http://sheenonline.biz/tags/pi.... You may also see this thread for another perspective: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/e... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
I like this idea. Has friendfeed started doing it? - Colide81
Another solution I've just set up for me: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/c... - Rodrigo Portela
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FriendFeed Feedback: Jesse Stay posted a link
“Dear FriendFeed - please let my friends tell me why they are following me so I have a little background on what led to the follow. (I guess you could call this...
Thursday at 11:59 am - via Reshare - Link
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FriendFeed Feedback: Jesse Stay posted a link
“Dear FriendFeed - if I "re-share" an item to a room, please give me the option to have comments from the original post go to the room I reshared it to.”
Thursday at 2:46 pm - via Reshare - Link
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FriendFeed Feedback: Raymond posted a message
“I know its been asked for before, and I'm sure you guys are busy enough as it is, but I'd like to put in another request for searching entries by url”
Thursday at 2:51 pm - Link
=) - Raymond
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FriendFeed Feedback: Shakeel Mahate posted a message
“I would like to see a CompanyFeed version of FriendFeed that works only within the confines of an organization.”
Thursday at 10:20 am - Link
It could serve as both a forum and a wiki of sorts,which would be awesome. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
We use it internally by creating a private room for employees—have you tried that? - Jim Norris
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yeah, you can easily create a private room and achieve that - Vincent van Wylick
But ff cannot crawl internal websites, blogs, etc. - Shakeel Mahate
A self-hosted version of FriendFeed would make for an interesting kind of open-source software package. Perhaps something with slightly less intense features could be released as something organizations could host on intranet servers...? Just a thought. You could even name it CompanyFeed. :D - Voyagerfan5761
You could use the single update protocol to crawl your own intranet! :-) - Slippy Lane
Social Sites by Newsgator has this functionality built on the SharePoint platform. The problem with this type of technology is that you have to keep support costs down for IT while providing governance on the information to comply with government regulations. An open source solution like CompanyFeed would be great for small-midsize businesses. - Erica Toelle
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FriendFeed Feedback: Peter posted a message
“Too much hidden!”
18 hours ago - Link
At the moment, I see only three items on my page, and a link to 27 hidden items. I don't use hide that much, all of last.fm, those of twitter I follow on twitter, and friends of friends. Can the default number of items on my main page be increased, such as 20 non-hidden entries? - Peter
It's because the hiding takes place at the client side. To up the number of entries displayed on your feed, add a "?num=100" (without the quotes, of course) to the end of the URI ("&num=100" if there are other parameters there already) - Slippy Lane
Wish there was some way to display the same # of un-hidden entries per page no matter what your hide rules are. - Hao Chen
/Like Hao Chen's comment; it's a good idea for changing the way FriendFeed displays a list. How about the num parameter specifying the number of items visible on the page? - Voyagerfan5761
I have found that it is just better to bookmark people you like here or search for a term. I let my feed all hang out otherwise. friendfeed weakens when you are too picky. - Noah David Simon
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FriendFeed Feedback: Brian Sullivan posted a link
“Another oft requested feature not in the FF beta -- the ability to hide a specific blog or rss feed. Down another notch in my opinion B- . I think all the first...
Thursday at 2:36 pm - via Reshare - Link
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FriendFeed Feedback: Aaron Krug posted a message
“I'm certain its been posted countless times, but I would like to throw my hat into the ring for the ability to 'like' specific comments instead of the actual post.”
Thursday at 2:55 pm - Link
btw, you guys are doing an awesome job. - Aaron Krug
And I wanna comment on other people's comment as well,not just comment the post - Steve
Liking comments and a commenting on comments with a common outline type view would be great. - tsudohnimh
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FriendFeed Feedback: Zee at WeDoCreative posted a message
“one click friendfeed signup from the widget on homepage - so visitors can leave comments without having to come to friendfeed & then go back again to the site where the widget was originally embedded.”
17 hours ago - Link
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Louis Gray posted a link
FriendFeed Beta Feedback Room: Highlight Tips You Agree With
17 hours ago - Link
The FriendFeed Feedback room is full of some great ideas for the FriendFeed team to implement going forward. Why not check out the suggestions and "Like" all those you agree on. In theory, the FriendFeed team could take your guidance on the most popular suggestions... - Louis Gray
Way ahead of you Louis. :) - Aaron Krug
Good idea. - Roberto Bonini
“I'm certain its been posted countless times, but I would like to throw my hat into the ring for the ability to 'like' specific comments instead of the actual post.” - Mathew Ballard
“one click friendfeed signup from the widget on homepage - so visitors can leave comments without having to come to friendfeed & then go back again to the site where the widget was originally embedded. - Mathew Ballard
Good call, Louis. - Slippy Lane
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Joining Dots posted a link
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds
18 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
excellent article. - Slippy Lane
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Corie Allison posted a link
Pictured: The South African who keeps his car ssssafe by placing two pythons on his dashboard
Pictured: The South African who keeps his car ssssafe by placing two pythons on his dashboard
August 24 at 7:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
+10 for the headline :) - Mo Kargas
that's totally my move too. this dude stole my move and is getting credit for it! - Melissa Maskevich
um, a bullet will kill a python won't it? - Ruth Ferguson
@Ruth - Pythons scare people. - Yuvi
If I were gonna steal a car, it would totally be the one with the awesome, free snakes. They'd likely be pretty docile left in a hot car anyway. :-) - Slippy Lane
actaully Ruth has a point.. its food on the table.. shoot the thing, take the car home and begin preping supper . snake fillet for supper - Peter Dawson
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Hutch Carpenter posted an entry on I'm Not Actually a Geek
FriendFeed Lets You Tag Users: Now Expertise Finds You
20 hours ago - Link
Interesting take on lists, I like it. Now if I can just figure out the tags I am going to use :) - Tim Hoeck
My FriendFeed project for the weekend is to start creating my lists. Now I can tag all the editors that cater to my various interests on FF. It's a win, win situation. - Mike Fruchter
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What are you naming your lists? This is my dilemma currently. - Mike Fruchter
My initial lists are in the blog post. But I'm going to evolve those over time. - Hutch Carpenter
I have begun my initial tag'n'sort, but I think it's gonna take me all weekend. Since I accidentally added all those following me, I should take the time to include them in my lists. Of course, once the initial sort is done is when the real work begins - refining the lists. - Slippy Lane
"Social Media Whales", that will be my first list name. Thanks Hutch. http://friendfeed.com/e/1044d5... - Mike Fruchter
Tagging is super powerful. A few simple words can bring a ton of order and new usefulness. - Caleb Elston
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Ben Parr posted a message
“If it were up to you to create the FriendFeed Default Friends List, who would you ABSOLUTELY add to it? Don't pick people already on it.”
Thursday at 12:25 pm - Link
I don't know about who I'd put on it, but I'd certainly have more than one default list. I'd have different lists for people interested in politics, tech, comment, conversation, etc. - Slippy Lane
Dynamically generated lists ftw! - Yuvi
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Slippy Lane posted a message
“Believe in aliens? I'm not sure I even believe in people - and for once, I really mean it.”
Wednesday at 12:43 pm - Link
Only martians, and only if they behave. - Dani Radu
does it counts if i believe in microbiological martians? - stefan