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Adewale Oshineye posted a message on Jaiku
“1 year at GOOG today”
May 14 at 7:41 am - Link
congrats! 3 for me in September :) - Amund Tveit
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Happy G-Day! - Erica Baker
I'm going to be away for mine :-( - Neil Dunn
We'll have to celebrate it when you get back - Adewale Oshineye
Congrats, it was 3 for me back in March. - Allen Hutchison
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Corvida shared an item on Google Reader
One failing of FriendFeed
May 17 at 12:24 am - Link
Forums have moderators, multiple threads on a subject are locked or deleted, but almost always there is a link back to the source thread. - Mike Fruchter
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There is a link back to the source on FF - Glenn Slaven
What's the problem with discussions taking place in different locations? It's not like someone is jumping from one to another making them confusing. - Alejandro S.
Alejandro, there is no problem with it! There is just an ongoing complaint of some about the fragmentation of "comments" and this is further fragmentation. But it's not the fault of friendfeed or any software -- it's just how PEOPLE work. Many different people wind up having the same conversations. Some people participate in the same conversation with different groups of people. That's how people work in real life and...anywhere else they are. - Robert Seidman
FriendFeed's search capability mitigates this somewhat. If I were at a computer, rather than my phone, I could search for "one failing of FriendFeed" and find the relevant conversations. - Ontario Emperor
Discussion fragmentation will happen on various sites. The problem the author has is that even on FriendFeed there is not one place to collect comments. This has to do with the fact that friendfeed really does not look for duplication. Several people can share the same story, but they are not linked in any way. This is definitely something friendfeed needs to fix or they will become a victim of their own success, the noise will become too great. - Rob Diana
Rob, if FriendFeed were a tool designed for bloggers and used only by bloggers I'd agree with you. Right now, there is a much higher percentage of bloggers subscribing to feeds of other bloggers than there will be as time passes. I'm pretty sure it won't be the only use case for FriendFeed. - Robert Seidman
At least we have Yacktrack, thanks Rob :) - Shey
Yes, conversations are distributed. Sometimes that's a good thing. - Mike Reynolds
I agree with Mike -- it allows conversations to take different directions on the same topic - Shey
If FF added the ability to search for a particular link in the API bloggers would be able to pull the different conversations back into their blogs... I think conversations going in different directions are interesting - Sean Reiser via twhirl
@Sean the various conversations are good, and yes the links are missing. As Shey said, I developed YackTrack which does put all of the conversations for a URL on one page. I think FF needs to make it easier to figure out that there are comments on multiple shares. I know you can search and various other multi-step things, but it really should be easier in an aggregation service like this. - Rob Diana
Is it possible to search via the API? If you did a search for a post title instead of the URL then most related shares would be returned. - Colin Walker
@Colin there is a standard search in the API which can be used for both keyword and URL searches. They work fairly well. The bigger question is whether duplicates can be grouped or linked together to make it easy to find the conversations. I know they can be, I don't know if it is on the FF roadmap. - Rob Diana
@RobertSeidman I think if more people join FF, the problem will just be spread out more. So, we would still see a decent amount of "share" duplication but it won't increase exponentially. As "early adopters", we tend to find the things that make a site more difficult to deal with than it should be. If we make FF easier to use, everybody wins. - Rob Diana
You guys should check out Bret Taylor's post on exactly this subject. http://friendfeed.com/e/f08cbf... - Hutch Carpenter
Rob Diana, it depends on what you want the product to be and how closely that mirrors what FF wants it to be. What if for example, a guy like Steve Rubel who is seemingly at least 2-3 days behind Louis Gray in the links he posts. And what if he has many people following him that don't follow Louis. is it bad for the link to show up again to Steve's followers as a link from Steve? - Robert Seidman
Robert Seidman, first let me say FF is doing a fantastic job and I am just suggesting. Also, by removing duplication I am saying group the links in some way so that we can see that two people shared the same thing. This may be getting away from the "people-centric" idea but that is just the idea that I had (see yacktrack). Everyone who shares a link should get credit in some way. - Rob Diana
@Hutch The Bret Taylor post makes sense for FF as it is totally person centric. I am not sure if link centric idea really works in their model, but I am sure they could find a way. Everyone, I promise I will shut up soon, this topic is obviously very dear to me. - Rob Diana
Rob, I hope you never shut up about that which you're passionate about! I'm all for de-duping and FriendFeed needs it. my preference is that individuals can set the preferences (much like w/"hide") rather than anything systemically done on FriendFeed's end. - Robert Seidman
This should like be like the word press feature just implemented. http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008.... FF comment/content recommendations based off the most active topics. With the main goal of allowing you to show were the topic started, and the option to go to that thread or others on the topic. The feature is there currently via the search function, lets make it automatic. - Mike Fruchter
What's funny is this complaint about duplicates in friendfeed has been mentioned before many times by many different bloggers. Is anybody working on a technical solution to "de-dupe" blogging topics? How about a service that checks your draft headline against google and says - someone already wrote about this :) - Jason Kaneshiro
I think the problem with removing duplication is the end result: another Metafilter. Keeping conversations decentralized allows comments to remain at least somewhat orderly and at least centered around people you know and people they know. Instead of combining things into single, massive comment threads, I'd rather see links to other instances of that shared something so you can see what other people are saying about it. - Akiva Moskovitz
We all have the same problem, seen the same items multiple time. But you have to keep in mind that because this aggregates all your activity if you read a post and bookmark it on any of the services you have connected to FF it will show up here, so even if you don't want to, you are contributing to the problem. - Gadiel Rivera
What if FriendFeed created a search "view" where you could enter the url you want to track ALL references to (through various services and people) to aggregate all the comments there grouped by discussion. At least then a blogger could find and participate in those conversations (which they may not be aware of otherwise) and FF could create a blog wiget for that so it would be easy for bloggers to include the conversations from FF in their posts. Everyone wins. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, that has been done by other services as well. YackTrack is one that does what you ask, though it does not yet post back to the comment stream. Akiva has a good idea with the links to other posts and it may stay in line with the people centric approach of friendfeed. - Rob Diana
Hmm, YackTrack sounds good but which url do you use? I just tried the one for this conversation (http://www.technovia.co.uk/200...) but get no results, though I would expect this entire conversation to appear there... - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, I have tried searching for the url that got shared, but it is a url for feedburner so I am not sure exactly what is happening there. The main story url will not show these comments either. So, I will look into this as most of the google reader stuff will be through rss of some sort. - Rob Diana
Rob, iIf you get all that sorted, and it can resolve urls back to their source too (if the link was posted from the feed) then it will be quite an awesome tool. I'll keep an eye on it. :) - Lindsay Donaghe
The problem with totally decentralised comments from my perspective is simple: I like to read what a wide range of people are saying about something I've posted, so I can better understand their points of view. If I post something and someone comes up with a great critique of it in a comment I don't see, I'll never be able to learn from it - and that's a bad thing. - Ian Betteridge
Conversations take place in a lot of places on the web. It's impossible for you to see every comment people makes about the stuff you write. - Alejandro S.
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RAPatton posted a link
BetaNews | Gates demonstrates touch UIs everywhere, including walls and furniture
BetaNews | Gates demonstrates touch UIs everywhere, including walls and furniture
May 17 at 7:09 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
""This idea that you just sit there and interact, touch, you don't have to learn anything, that naturalness really draws people in. So, it's been a strong success so far, and that form factor is going to get cheaper and smaller," predicted Microsoft's chairman." - RAPatton
I really like this kind of functionality -- where you can just dive right in without having to learn a lot. I think that's why the Wii has been so successful. - Ginger Makela
Not to mention the iPhone. - Vince DeGeorge
Digg
Louis Gray dugg a story on Digg
The Stats Are In: You're Just Skimming This Article
May 7 at 12:02 pm - Link
actually, I'm just reading the title on Friendfeed - Sean Reiser via Alert Thingy
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I admit I do skim through the occasional articles ;) but I did read through the whole of Sarah's post and it makes a good point. There are distractions admitedly but sometimes after reading through a couple of posts on the same story you know where to jump to the actual authors opinion! - Joe Dawson (beta)
I do it too. I think it also has to do with the amount of information available. Sometimes I think it's a waste of time reading a long post or article when there are so many other things I could be reading, watching, etc. - Alejandro S.
I skim most articles. I look at headline first , then if that interest me, I'll skim the article, I don't have time to read every article I see in depth - Kim Landwehr
I read the first paragraph of that article, skimmed the rest. :) - Eric Daams
Just the title actually. - Christian Burns
Yeah, I wish there were a way to signal that it's just a great headline vs. actually something you need to read. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
After a while, I find I can pick and choose which items to skim vs. read from who the poster is - some people are indiscriminate and others post only good stuff. My brain is already starting to filter the info from the must reads to the nice to haves that way; it saves time. - Sally Church
Skimming is exactly why it is good to use header tags in your posts. Makes for quick scanning. Sarah hit it spot on. - David Risley
The last few months I've noticed more 'read me' (ie: Sensational?) headlines with almost no content than ever. Some are fairly significant blogs and websites. My reaction? After a while, they come off the 'read list' and they rarely if ever make it to the 'shared read list'. - Charlie Anzman
tl;dr :) - Morton Fox
Yes, I also agree with Sally Church. - Mike Reynolds
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NewsWare Apps | Spectra | msnbc.com
NewsWare Apps | Spectra | msnbc.com
NewsWare Apps | Spectra | msnbc.com
NewsWare Apps | Spectra | msnbc.com
May 7 at 8:11 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
This is freaking awesome! - Elliott
msnbc is really driving the cutting edge of online news experience... so cool - The Product Guy
Yes they are! I was even more impressed when they decided to purchase Newsvine. It seems to me that they are going to be well prepared for the future - they will probably lead the pack in next generation news delivery. - Elliott
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Garrett shared an item on Google Reader
Blu-ray hits bumps in the road to HD market dominance
May 5 at 3:14 pm - Link
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
Is Google Trumping The URL?
May 1 at 8:33 am - Link
I have often thought this myself. While I use the address bar when i know where I want to go (ie facebook) if I'm not totally sure of the URL I just use the google bar - Nathan Manley via Alert Thingy
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I've been waiting for someone else to make this point. I see investors making decisions purely based on domain names. That's nuts. When is the last time you didn't find what you were looking for when you knew what it was? Right... - JonathanJoseph
I even use Google to find old posts of mine... just by putting in my domain name and keywords or the title. Google finds it faster than I will - Louis Gray
Let me just say I've met people who didn't know you could type a URL into the bar. They get around through their home page, bookmarks, or search engine results. - Jason Kaneshiro
Wasn't there a time when "www.yahoo.com" was one of the most popular search terms on Google and vice versa? - Ole Begemann
@Ole Begemann - that time is now. Google just doesn't report it. I've seen the stats for (the largest) broadband ISP in the US. Their portal has a search bar, and the most commonly searched phrases are, in this order: google (ironic, because it uses google search), yahoo, amazon, ebay. The rest of the top 10 most searched for phrases are sex, yahoo.com, ebay.com etc. - Ross McKillop
Seth Godin suggestion of “Drop the dot?” is not cool. I do a *.org and *.tv sites. - Mitchell Tsai
Lots of people (used to be 40-50%) type URLs in any search box they see (not just Google). At HCI (Human-Computer Interface) conferences in 1993-2000, a lot of companies presented data that URLs were 40-50% of the items typed in their search boxes. I'm 8 years out of the loop, and don't know the data for today. But I help a lot of people who still type URLs in any search box. - Mitchell Tsai
A search technique - "Manual Trackbacks" - I used in the days of AltaVista/Hotbot was to (1) type in the URL of an article I liked (2) look at all the webpages that referenced that URL (3) track back using the URLs to other webpages (4) Often, I could find an expert in the domain who had made a master page for Domain X linking to all the top pages. - Mitchell Tsai
Awesome point! I sat on a couple of podcasting domain names a few years back, but after about a year of talking to people and thinking about people's search habits, I realized that the domain names really aren't as important today. It is much more effective to be in the first page of hits in a google search. - Phil Ashman
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Thomas Hawk posted a message
“It would be nice to have filters on FriendFeed. For instance, it would be nice to be able to hide any post containing the word "Obama" without having to hide someone's other stuff. Or the ability to hide any entry containing the word "ubuntu", etc.”
May 1 at 8:51 am - Link
or turn off updates from friends or your friends. I can't keep up with the friends I have, let alone their friends. - Gary H
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Gary, you can turn off updates from friends of friends. If you see it, click on "Hide", "More hide options" and you can find the option there, as "Hide ALL stuff from friends-of-friends". - Louis Gray
I just want the ability to create subsets of friends without doing it in an RSS reader. - Ryan Brenizer
I'm big on filtering too. FF doesn't have as much noise as GReader, but filters would be nice. - Mike Reynolds
Holy cow, yes. I would *love* to be able to filter out all the political posts... - Matthew Freeman via Alert Thingy
Actually, Friendfeed should highlight all entries containing 'ubuntu' imho. ;) - roel
haha hide ubuntu ;) - Tyler Gillies
It would be nice to work the other way and bump up stories containing a keyword of your choice. Kind of like track, Would be useful to follow discussion on your company - Jamie
Sounds like a perfect job for a Greasemonkey script. - TranceMist
Couldn't agree more! - Matt
If you hide a conversation, do all of the FF apps hide it too? Also, is it possible to hide a conversation from w/in Alert Thingy or Twhirl? - Bob
There is an urgent need to PRIORITIZE (recommend) new/unread Friendfeed items by personal relevance/importance. Is anyone working on this? In its current incarnation, Friendfeed is an unwieldy mess and time waster compared to Google Reader. - Sean McBride
I think some of this was the idea behind "rooms" where someone could, say, create an "obama" room and everyone (how do they find out?) would join up and then only post obama stuff to that room and not in the general feed. Then it'd be up to you to join that room or not. Then it also filters accordingly, too. - lilbyrdie
but don't things that you post in a room still show up to everyone following you? - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, only if your followers also belong to that room. - Mark Trapp
ahhhhh, ok, that's what I wasn't getting. That makes more sense now. Thanks Mark. - Thomas Hawk
Or just use a client to apply the filters. Anyone know of one? - Roberto Bonini
What Gary H said. The ability to turn off originating posts from friends of friends. - Bryan Nystrom
Step By Step Directions...1) Click 'Hide' on a Friend of a Friend entry. 2) Click 'See options for hiding other items like this'. 3) Select the option you want and select 'Hide Entries'. - Charlie Owen
Ha Ubuntu....Wait! - Anthony Farrior
sounds like a job for the greasemonkey filter script...via feedalizr - Ben Reierson
Personally I like the friend of a friend feature - gives more variety. Just so long as you have a limited number of friends and/or subscribe to Scoble and his 10000 friends. - Roberto Bonini
FILTERSSSSz!! and tags so I can SORT and categorize my own feed stuff! Need to be able to organize the slew of stuff I see in my feed...grows daily! wow! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
I would name my filter, Dave Winer. - Mike L
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Ionut posted an entry on Google Operating System
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Strike Two: DataPortability Workgroup Logo Challenged, Again
April 30 at 7:29 am - Link
crazy - The Product Guy
oh. good. god. they just want to make this a more united internet people! can't we all just get along? - HokieGeek via Alert Thingy
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Corvida shared an item on Google Reader
Why Apps Need to Be Non-Platform Specific
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Student entrepreneurs sell business for £2.5m - Times Online
April 16 at 1:59 pm - Link
"“We survived on ramen noodles for lunch and dinner. We didn’t even buy any furniture for the apartment that we were working out of, just desks. We had foam mattresses on the floor. We would work until we needed to sleep and then get up and start all over again,” he said." - Phillip Kast
did similar sort of thing way back when - The Product Guy
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Ionut posted an entry on Google Operating System
Google Starts to Index the Invisible Web
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One pot of coffee done, now on to a second.
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keep up the good work LOL - The Product Guy
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
AlertThingy, The FriendFeed Desktop Application, Launches
April 13 at 5:31 am - Link
Is TechCrunch...*gulp*... down? - Bwana
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This is really nice - I just wish it did some of the grouping and comment trimming like the FF site did - it's pretty verbose. - felix
If you like it so far show us your digg love - http://digg.com/software/Frien... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
@felix: It doesn't appear to be hiding the stuff I have configured on the site. And the semi-transparency is driving me batty - can we get a setting for that? - Voyagerfan5761
@Voyagerfan5761 yeah, I'm with you on that. I wish it had a more twhirl like configurability on a few fronts. More generically, I wish that AIR was a better desktop citizen with more OS appropriate chrome. AlertThingy next to Twhirl sort of highlights the wild west of AIR apps. - felix
Thanks for all the comments! keep them coming, although remember this is just a v1.0! - Jeremy Baines
when minimized, can it not show up on the taskbar? (via Alert Thingy) - Craig
@Jeremy: More in-depth comments on my blog, hot off the keyboard: http://voyagerfan5761.blogspot... I'm looking forward to all the enhancements I'm sure are already in the works for v2.0! :-) - Voyagerfan5761
The font size is tool small for me. Comments written in Chinese is almost unreadable. Can we get a setting for "font" ? - Roger Chen
This def needs to group stuff like the site does, I'm getting overrun by Scoble (via Alert Thingy) - Ryan
Currently I'm only using it for popup alerts, nothing more. It has potential, but it's not ready for everyday use for me. - Vince DeGeorge
Wow the response has blown me away - http://www.flickr.com/photos/a... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
Commenting here from AlertThingy (via Alert Thingy) - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
@TechCrunch sending a comment via alertthingy, testing, 1, 2, 3, (via Alert Thingy) - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Wow, this is really takes personal broadcasting to a new level. Amazing that Adobe has found itself in the middle of a revolution. Brilliant. (via Alert Thingy) - Yaron Samid
Alert Thingy definitely needs tweakig of its interface with respect to mouse/keyboard interaction (via Alert Thingy) - David Blumenstein
why is this transparent...and for petes sake lets get some color. (via Alert Thingy) - Zee.
trying to think of a reason to be excited about alertthingy ! - Murali
I told it to turn off the sounds and it still plays them when a new alert comes in. FAIL! (via Alert Thingy) - Jared Mehle
@ Jared Mehle - you hit save, right? - Jeremy Baines
OK thanks, will look at that one. Apart from a few glitches, I hope some of you are enjoying the app :) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
I was frustrated with Friendfeed because it screamed for a twhril style interface. This looks really promising. (via Alert Thingy) - Michael Groner
Wow, that really looks awesome. (via Alert Thingy) - Martin Gommel
For the sounds to stop, turn them off, save and then restart AlertThingy. After that they stopped for me. (via Alert Thingy) - Ryan
I guess there is no need for Twhirl now? - Cesar H Castro Jr
Cesar, you can't post to twitter from Alert thingy (yet). I imagine Twhirl is going to add FriendFeed in the future. I'll be watching that one with close interest. - Bwana
Jeremy, nice version 1. Do you plan on integrating with Twitter as well directly? Output as tweet? The future is like a search engine choice, send a tweet, jaiku, friendfeed or what have you. (via Alert Thingy) - Jason
Its a good start but the transparency needs to be worked out and the ability to hide things like twitter (seeing as how I get double posts for tweets via twhirl and alertthingy, still need twhirl not all of my twitter friends use friendfeed atm) - BCK
Gotta say that if twhirl would let me switch channels between ff and twitter, its big lead in features would lock alert thingy out for quite a while. - Janet Tokerud
Runs very high CPU, around %10 on my MacBook Air. Its not normal. (via Alert Thingy) - Ahmet Oren
neat v1.0. can do with some more configuration options though. useful. (via Alert Thingy) - Rajiv
problem with alert thingy: if a FF notification occurs while you're typing in your comment. you lose your comment and must start over. very bad (via Alert Thingy) - Baratunde Thurston
It's great, just a couple of little issues, when I double-click on the system-tray icon it should restore the app (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven
And auto-linking urls in comments would be nice too - Glenn Slaven
Oh, and can the alert bubble please not steal focus? (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven
I, too, would love it if links were auto-linked. More config options on the interface would be lovely as well! Other than that I love it so far! (via Alert Thingy) - Bob
Air gets more and more useful. But both Thwirl and Alert Thingy NEEDS color settings. I find both of them a bitt annoying when it comes to colors... (via Alert Thingy) - Oyvind Solstad
This should boost my FF use exponentially, as twirl did my Twitter use. Agree that it should minimize to system tray, though, and get off the taskbar. (via Alert Thingy) - Jandy Stone
If you click the close 'x' link it minimises to the system tray rather than the taskbar (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven
I wish the lower-right alerter alerted me more often. Refreshing FF proves to be much more "current". - Mike Reynolds
that alpha is KILLING my font - anyway to change? (via Alert Thingy) - martin ollman
even though i unchecked the sound box, I'm still hearing it. And it just scared the sh*t outta me. (via Alert Thingy) - Andy Sternberg
I'm also getting sounds when I have the sound off. Just woke up the gf b/c the stupid preferences don't work :-/ (via Alert Thingy) - Bob
It's a good start. Hope it fix the font size issue soon. Maybe a different color theme will make it easier to read. Also, hope it could also display the poster's image from the profile (via Alert Thingy) - Joel Yen
This and Twhirl will most likely be always on my desktop. At what point do I start haveing a varienty of AIR apps vs one firefox session? (via Alert Thingy) - Monty
Restart your copies of AlertThingy v1.1 is here! ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines
jeremy, you are not seriously adding that message everywhere? this is what apps have a built in notifier for ... - Nicole Simon
Comments are no longer automatically displayed, now you have to click on "Show all 50 comments"... hoping the sound problem was fixed in 1.1 ...via AlertThingy - Bob
@Bob yes the sound problem should be fixed. Let me know if you have any more issues with it. ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines
Some issues need to be worked out, like not dumping my comment while I am typing it when a new alert comes in. More configuration options needed. Also, some interaction with twitter such as sending a new tweet or replying would be nice. Not sure how the thwurl people would like that though. I am really liking it so far regardless of all that. (via Alert Thingy) - Rolf Schewe
I'm no longer having the sound problem so it looks like you fixed it ...via AlertThingy - Bob
For those discussing the frequency of the alerts, the only real-time tweet client I believe is Gtalk. (via Alert Thingy) - Rolf Schewe
@ Rolf - try restarting the app to get an update and some of those issues should be fixed! ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines
i wish there was Miranda addon for this... i gotta stop tryin out all these new clients. Too much clutter :-( ...via AlertThingy - Siddharth Mitra
Test 12345 _._. _ _._ (via Alert Thingy) - Johnny R
FriendFeed
Ginger Makela posted a link
Who do I "like" first?
Who do I "like" first?
April 12 at 8:56 am - Link
Here's a conundrum: who do I give the "like" to? Scoble, whose brand already has major momentum and already has comments. Corvida, who got to it first (as usual). Ontario Emperor (who I don't "know" but has great commentary), or Atul Arora, who posts a lot of great stuff but doesn't get many likes or comments? - Ginger Makela
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Hey FF devs, if you can figure out how to do "Group Similar" to keep these kinds of items not only together, but also ensure the comments stay in one place, that would be awesome. - Vince DeGeorge
You give it to Scoble, the originator of the content. Other benefits would be that as Scoble has more followers, your "Like" will be exposed to more viewers, especially as the story goes up the page. With the FriendFeed community growing, if we all "liked" shared items, which are frequently duplicated, we'd be in a spiral of happy feelings. (BTW - That's my 1000th FriendFeed comment!) - Louis Gray
it's an interesting question - but we might not have to answer the "who's first" question....rather, why not share likes universally? If Scoble shares a link and I "like" it, and then someone else shares that same link later on, Friendfeed could notify them that "x number of people" have also liked that article....rather than re-bubble all the links up to the top, maybe only the original link that was submitted gets bubbled up. - Adam Kazwell
Louis, you are a writing machine. How many words a day do you type, and what's your typing speed? - Vince DeGeorge
@Vince, your suggestion seems to be quite valid - Varun Mahajan
@Vince: They have the ability to group similar, but they choose not to because they don't want to. They want each instance of the post to have its own community. - engtech
Ginger - I agree with Louis. You should give it Scoble since he is the originator of the content. And thanks for kind words. I will keep posting great stuff. - Atul Arora
@Vince, it's been a long time since I checked typing speed. I should do that some time. But writing for me is pretty easy, and fun too! - Louis Gray
I'll like the same URL multiple times. - Mike Reynolds
if you give it to somebody else than the "original" then I assume there is something you like about this specific entry and not the original. [which is also why I asked for the bookmarklet to find stuff because I want to find the original. - Nicole Simon
But sometimes I hit like because the comments were as (or more) interesting than the original post. Often, it is the comment stream that causes me to click the link in the first place. - Diane Ensey
i would assume a 'this originally belongs to' could make sense. all those tinyurl services seem to enerate one url from a base link, so resolving is possible, google shared items are usually going back to a link or they go to a redirect link (which is the same all the time as well) etc. - Nicole Simon
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heh - Jeremy Zawodny
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My Dream Foosball Table
My Dream Foosball Table
My Dream Foosball Table
April 12 at 9:41 am - Link
I'm pretty sure Chico needs one of these... - Ross Miller
pretty! - Emily Miller
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