We’re also planting a neighborhood BYOS (bring your own scissor) herb garden on the side of our house this year. Come on over for a sprig of thyme if you need it. - Adam Darowski
“Friendfeed could benefit from a profile description, I want to know more about people, sometimes it's hard to tell from their shared items. Do you AGREE or DISAGREE?”
Agree. I believe this is already in the plans, and has been requested for some time. - Louis Gray
At first blush, I would disagree. What could be more "profile-ish" than dozens of blog posts, tweets, photos, StumbledUpon items and more? I guess there's no downside to including it, but part of the beauty of FriendFeed is its simplicity -- and I'd hate to see that ruined. - Mike Keliher
I was thinking that just a moment ago when someone new subscribed to me...it's hard to figure out who they are, and why they've found you... - Trent Olson
Agreed, but let's not go crazy with it... Location, maybe age.... - Chris Reed
Not really. My profile typically consists of 'Alive not dead' or 'The ghost of RomanTotaleXVII'. Always makes me smile but hardly enlightening for the reader. - Andy C
that will save the click to the user's twitter page - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I want to be able to add in my dailymugshot profile so people can see how FriendFeed addiction ages me ala Whitney Houston style! - Joe Dawson
AGREE. My usual process is to click over to their Twitter page and read their profile there. - Damon via twhirl
Agreed. Brief bio + web link would be fantastic. - Evan Sims
Amen - told the same to Paul else its always the usual suspects - Mrinal Desai via twhirl
@Mike Keliher: Strongly agree. Couldn't have said it better myself. - Andy C
One alternative would be to have the opportunity to import profile data from somewhere...say openID or something. I do think ff needs access to profiles, but I don't think I need yet another place to create a profile. - Trent Olson
Fine import in, that's fine! FYI not everyone is going to be a twitter user. - Jeremiah Owyang
I agree, but make it smart! Import data if possible. Data Portability is the way to go :-) - Magnus Jonsson via Alert Thingy
I've been thinking this as well. Why not have more detailed optional info, a link to their profile could easily be ignored by those craving simplicity. - Leif Hansen
Ok, so if we want to import profiles from somewhere, what options would we like? - Trent Olson
what about having something similar to retaggr, where your avatar allows to supplement a lot of info about you, without having to peruse lots of pages? - Kara Carrell via twhirl
Definitely agree-not enough to see their feed icons and avatar - Mark Forman via twhirl
yes, importing is the way to do it! Have you thought about how much effort would be required to update ALL of your profile(s) if you moved, for example? - Thomas Ho via fftogo
of course some basic profile would be good but not another duplicate profile, rather an integration with a profile we could chose would be best, so a blog about page, linkedin or fb profile or even the basic ones of twitter or seesmic would be good - having to many diverse profile locations is such a waste in today's easily integrated online world - mike "glemak" dunn
sorry one more point - this is not about authentication but rather information right, so a good transparent about page or the public linkedin profile is what I've been looking at and sometimes flickr because I find you can get a sense of someone by the photos they publish - but maybe that's just me ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Agree wholeheartedly that there is a need for profile info. If it's done by leveraging information from an existing source, the user needs to have the ability to specify the source, in order to control the messaging. - Andrei M. Marinescu via twhirl
Agree. Many things I'm inclined to share with the world don't necessary define me. Sometimes I share 'cause I believe others will benefit from something more than I would. So yeah, a proper place to better define myself would be nice. - Jim Stanger
Agree. Because there are people behind names like mine. - IRWebReport.com
how about a room called 'about me?' that way you can opt in or not - sergiooooooo
AGREE Was just thinking the same thing this morning. - Marc Vermut via twhirl
If you hover with your mouse over someone's name, the profile pop-up gives a short profile plus an indication of whether that person has subscribed to you, rather like Twitter Karma but hundred times better ;) - Mario Olckers
Yes, a short profile would be of great help. kamla - kamla bhatt
mario - true but its not a profile, its the list of aggregated sites, so from there you can go look at one of the about pages of a blog or a true profile page like linkedin - mike "glemak" dunn
it would definitely be helpful to know a little more about people, but short profile - Carolina Velis
Agreed. Was thinking that a couple weeks ago. I tend to click on people's Twitter or blog link to find the "about" info. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Totally. If you go to twitter and see my reference to "nude Oprah" you would then be completely disappointed when you arrive at my blog http://tinyurl.com/582z7o I vote for a profile on FF. - Dan Covington
DISAGREE . They should keep it simple and avoid feature-creep. - john conroy
I don't know. I tend to disagree. I want to get to know someone by what they feed, by how they comment, not by what they say in a profile. Not everyone can express themselves that way, but you can by what you feed, like and comment IMO. - AJ Kohn
Jeez, Jeremiah. You've got access to my photos, videos, two blogs, and all the feeds I read. - Christopher Harley
For now, you can always mouse over someone's name and see where it takes you. It's a good practice anyway because you can subscribe to their feed if you wish - Charlie Anzman
AGREE. Going over to the ever-slow twitter just for the bio is, err, slow. - Yuvi
Agree - I tend to hover over their blog button to see what the name of it is - Sarah Perez
Agree. Although Most Profiles don't really convey much directly, you can infer a lot from what the person is trying to paint. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl
Completely disagree. As someone said already, your stream is your profile. - Neil Saunders
DISAGREE. A think max you could you a profile sentence a la twitter, but it's almost more fun to infer/learn facts about the person from what they like, blog about, read and listen to. - Cat Laine
Just for fun, I'd like to remind people that this is called FRIENDFeed. If you don't know who someone is, and you're not intrigued by what they've shared here, what would a little bio do to change that? - Mike Keliher
I would have to say that FF is more of an aggregator with some bells & whistles. Some of the others services (blogs or facebook for example ) tend to be the places I'd expect to go for more info. Maybe the ability to add a link to the profile you wan to people to see? - Joel Gray
agree...but, jsut need a link to a profile from linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc. all that i need to know is who is that person. w/o a blog (most have them though), it's hard to figure out from the screen name. - don loeb
Agreed... I sometimes wonder why this person wants to follow me. - Mike Wills
Not really. After all, FriendFeed links to many of the places where I have profiles - including a direct link to my LinkedIn profile. - Simon Bisson via Alert Thingy
FF is elegant enough as it is. I think that FF, as said above links to more that one place where my profile is stored. Which reminds me, it needs updating. Any tips?? - Roberto Bonini
AGREE! I've asked the FF team for this specific feature. Hope they're listening. :) - Don MacAskill
I like the basic simplicity of it. If you want to know more about them, go visit the blog page they linked. - TranceMist
It would actually be kind of cool if FF kept track on the things you share and comment on and then build a profile from it. It could be just as much about self discovery! How exciting! - Geoff Schultz
I like either reading in the Twitter bio or an excerpt from an About page from blog. Also, title and company from LinkedIn could be read. That alone might suffice. - Adam Darowski
Agree. For those who want to use it, a FriendFeed profile saves the trouble of digging through countless posts, tweets, etc. And if you don't want to use it, you don't have to use it. - Ontario Emperor
Would be nice if they could instead pull in your profiles on all your feeds and allow your to tab thru them - Robert O'Callaghan
Disagree. Not knowing who everyone is here on FF keeps it more objective keeps some from being influenced on how they may post. It gives newcomers a chance to be noticed without be 'overpowered' by the 'well-known' names which is very good. This is one of the reasons (Late adopter?? :) that I just re-opened my Linked-In account. - Charlie Anzman
You too Noah? They are actually the last band I saw live (was... damn, a few years ago). Fantastic live band, fantastic recorded band... just awesome. - Adam Darowski
i am only just starting to listen to them, after ringing endorsements by RAP and Dooce - :) - edythe
Ok, Some Cities is starting, more to follow - Michael W. May
I know this group! Almost Forgot Myself tweaked the memory cells and Snowden switched on the light. Much thanks everyone, so glad I got this now :) - Michael W. May via twhirl
glad you did this MG and glad that FF held up so well - nobody else was faster getting updates out and having the comments added a while new dimension - Frederic
Thank you, MG! I appreciate you doing this! - Andy Tinkham
“I've been reading FriendFeed in Google Reader. Just wrote about two hang-ups. First, imaginary friends apparently aren't in the RSS feed (booo!). Secondly, the way they handle "more" links is inconsistent and annoying. http://tinyurl.com/5tyqha”
I usually use the comment link to get to the entry, but, as you point out the 'bookmarked x pages' are collapsed, each with it's own comment link. Perhaps the rss feed always has a 'see whole entry' that links to a friendfeed page with expanded entries? - Ashton
@Ashton, I recently found the comment link will get me there, but yes... should be a link to the permalink entry intsead. - Adam Darowski
@Sprague: That's a function of Google Reader, not FriendFeed. Google fetches feeds about every 3 hours, I believe, if you don't send pings. - Voyagerfan5761
I'm thinking that "liking" something is similar to "starring" something in Google Reader... it is left up to you how you want to use it. You can star something to refer to later, to mark as something to finish reading later, to email to someone, etc. I'm not sure there's a defined purpose for "liking". - Adam Darowski
I'm with you re:liking=starring. Just seems that if you comment on something it should automatically become liked. - Noah Carter
They have the same effect. In my case, sometimes I have nothing to add but I found the item interesting. So I "like" it. :) - Alejandro S.
But is there a danger in this? What would happen if I took your RSS feed and tried to pass it off as my own? Technically it's possible (imaginary friends is built on this), but what are the ethical/legal implications of falsely claiming content? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
No different than simply republishing an RSS feed as my own blog. I don't need FF to do that. - Kenneth LeFebvre
Ever since I signed up for FriendFeed, I've NEVER given them ANY password (except, of course, my FF login). It's all open data. I love that. - Adam Darowski
You can either click in the icons on the left, or you can use the search. For example: service:blog will show you only blog items. The same for friendfeed, googlereader, twitter, etc. - Alejandro S.
ok cool - thanks - do you use both FF & Twitter? I'm starting to see the the value of FF - Noah Carter
I only have a Twitter account so I can reply to people from here. I don't really use twitter, I'm not that interesting. ;) - Alejandro S.
I wrote recently about how I de-cluttered FriendFeed by removing Twitter feeds (or any other services for that matter) that I read elsewhere. http://tinyurl.com/5s9v5q - Adam Darowski
Adam - Eureka! - Thank you!! Your post explained it perfectly. I'm starting to like this room! - Noah Carter
