I would like to have IM added for notification ! IM with a way to reply to that comment again through IM interface only would be really cool! - Jigar Mehta
Yes indeed again. I would like an RSS feed for all new comments in conversations in which I am participating. Tracking these conversations efficiently is now rather difficult and requires much eyeballing of noisy text. - Sean McBride
The MojiPage XMPP bot already allows you get notified via IM for posts that gets liked or commented on. Try noise level 2. http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/ - Wil
I've expressed the same wish to Daniel. The three biggest things I'd like to do on the mobile platform is 1 navigate through FriendFeed while commenting and liking (MojiPage lets you comment and like, but it's hard to navigate and you can't view comments, 2 read disqus, and 3 write disqus. - Ontario Emperor
@ontemp we've neglected the FF widget for a while, development will pick up again soon and you'll soon see those features. - Wil
and when you post you're fairly certain it's going to show up :) - John Duff
I'm definitely becoming a huge FriendFeed fan, but not everyone is here, so I think Twitter will remain essential. Plus, how complex would FriendFeed have to get to be configurable to the point where I could get chat or IM updates for only certain kinds of feeds for only certain users (and be able to reply appropriately) and have that tie in with my hiding filters? - Logical Extremes
Interesting, so you want to get friendfeed through IM and be able to interact with the posts (replies or comments) with IM as well? You can already configure things so you're only getting posts you want from each user, the api respects those choices (afik). So building an IM bot for friendfeed is what you want to do, Jabber based IM probably wouldn't be too hard to get the feed. Difficult part would be posting a comment to a friendfeed post. Very cool idea. - John Duff
@John -- there already is a bot to do most of this, the Mojipage bot. - Trent Olson
And then of course SMS is the next step (but as we dumb down to more compact protocols, usability decreases). Or maybe SMS will be so 2007 when the iPhone supports chat native ;-) - Logical Extremes
I'm not into FF nor Plurk, yet, but it seems like they offer an easier way to thread conversations that twitter doesn't have. - Mario Sundar
@Mario...I'd recommend spending some time with ff, but steering clear of Plurk - Trent Olson
I am liking the comments threading on Friend Feed, but it feels like conversations get lost somehow too. - John F Morton
I've noticed that, despite having 500 followers on Twitter, no-one responds to anything I say!! But here on Friendfeed, I get instant replies - and quality replies (which is important). Twitter has too much noise. - Mark O'Neill
I think that FriendFeed and Twitter were both built for different purposes. A lot of people use Twitter so they can keep in touch with friends. On FriendFeed, I think it's more of a website where you share and discuss content. - possible248
I think yesterdays coverage of WWDC here on FF pretty much rubber stamped FF's position, no? - Roberto Bonini
ff feels like a mashup of pownce functionality with the benefit of aggregating lots of other streams. I think it misses some of the conversation with the cloud aspects of twitter. As for everyone not being here - that's part of the reason there is more response, you can actually notice when someone says something not just watch the stream go by in a blur. - Phillip J. Zannini
via twhirl
I would rather not use FF messages for Twitter-like statuses. If I stick to Twitter for status messages, then other FF users can choose to block those if they want. - Morton Fox
@John - The Mojipage Bot allows you to select noise level, enter different discuss rooms and posting to FF.The Mojipage widget also have the 'like' and 'comment' feature for posting FF too! For more informations you can go to http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/ - Aelvin Han
Steve - discussions are much easier to follow and come back to later on on FF; its one major reason why I'm becoming a more dedicated FF user - Ron Emrick
via Alert Thingy
100% agree. Twitter represents a great initial idea that resulted in an effective one-way loop. FriendFeed is poised to be the fruition of the RESPONSE to all those posted thoughts. An actual discussion. A true loop. Potentially also FF might just be a service to corner the market on all web discussion. Jus' sayin. - Steve Isaacs
I was a late joiner to twitter- fellow marketer turned me onto it, and I enjoyed it, but never got the large discussions that happened here *immediately*- and realy enjoy the filtering and weighting that goes on. - anna
FF definitely has more info and less extraneous stuff. Information content vs chatter. - Robin Whitson
I'm pulling for FF to do well, but I've spent time on twitter and I know the people there. hard to leave it. - Rob Williams
Like Morton, I'm still inclined to post status messages to ff from another source so they can be parsed/blocked, but I'm trying out gTalk to replace tweets. Thinking the only con to doing that is twitter habits I can quickly get over. - Dan Covington
The signal-to-noise ratio at FF is heaps higher than Twitter, and it is a good balance between having temporal conversations (late-breaking news, etc.) vs. information worth archiving.. - Wil
We need to start FriendFeed meetups now to take the place of TUB meetups :-) - Duncan Riley
agree - and it's the threading, searching, flexibility that makes FF a winner for me - Anthony Citrano
out of interest steve, what client do you use for FF? still finding alertthingy too chatty on the UI side - steve clayton
via twhirl
So what kind of luck have you had motivating your Twitter followers to come to FF Steve? Not that I have that many, but around 4000 people follow me on Twitter. I have a whopping 227 following me on FF. - ScottBourne
@Scott I have 3200 following me here and another 1500 via RSS. On Twitter I have north of 7000 followers. So you are right this is an issue. One possible idea is to run the whole lifestream or just the FF portion (http://friendfeed.com/steverub...) through Twitterfeed. That way people can follow my stuff there if they want to. - Steve Rubel
I understand what you're saying, Steve, but I still think FF needs an easier interface. Checking the website all the time is a drag. - Ed Healy
That's interesting. The comment threads are definitely easier to read on FriendFeed though. - GerryBot
@Steve, I'm with you, but even RSS can't compensate for Twitter's ease of use. There is something to be said for the ability to get short IM-like messages in a timeline, rather than threaded vis-a-vis FF. If FF had a twhirl-like client interface it would be an easy substitution. Right now, it's not. - Ed Healy
Twitter seems to be more a right now kind of service, where FF brings all recent content into view. I guess they both have their uses, but which is more ideal is anyone's guess - Derek Schauland
via twhirl
I like that I can look here & see what all the comments are at once. It makes it much easier to meet new people or find out a general 'take' on the topic. - Sheryl Loch
oh man.. such a good idea. I'm hetero.. but I love the feel of my girl's undies. wish I could fit my package in there. totally am going to get some of these. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
You guys are weird! Talk about Fetishes! What is next Bras for Men? LOL - Igor The Troll
I'd be open to trying that for sure. I'm sure we could plug the feed for our FF pages into Snackr, literally. Don't know how well it would render tho. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
tried snackr at work... not good caught myself starring at the feed - amarquart
I already use friendfeed like a ticker using twhirl - Kingsley Joseph
Yeah I think the FF feed into Snackr might lose value. Just looking at twhirl's FF output, made me realize that is more of an updating stream that should scroll. - Tris Hussey
friendfeed bot at Mojipage works for me... - Aelvin Han
if MySocial 24x7 Firefox sidebar would allow me to configure an auto-refresh, it would be perfect. - Sarah Perez
But it can lead to bigger to do lists :) - funkyboy
via Posty
funny - I used snackr and since Friendfeed is there I just read my RSS there in Alertthingy - Dieter Schwarz
via Alert Thingy
“Notifications have just been implemented in MojiPage's FriendFeed XMPP bot (im@mojipage.com) with ability to control the noise level, as well as comment and like entries. For more information, please see http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/”
I just updated the URL above to include explanations of it, look for it at the end of the page. - Wil
BTW entries that are hidden in FF will not be sent to you. So, if you're finding a lot of noise (maybe you're following loads of people), it may be time to update your FF noise filter. - Wil
I'm going offline soon. If you find any issues with the bot, you may try silencing it by saying "/noise off". Please send any comments my way, thanks! - Wil
2 suggestions: 1) is it possible to include a command that will list the last X number of posts in your feed? Already I've lost track of what post_id this feed is, so I had to go back to the web to comment on it. 2) I don't suppose there's a way to make a hide command? If I remember, that's not in the ff api yet. - Trent Olson
1) Yes, I do plan to add that. 2) You're right, no "hide" support in the API - Wil
Hmm I get a "Encountered unknown error" when try to authorize.. And now a "Unabel to contact FriendFeed". - Leandro Ardissone
This is very cool. Logged into gtalk and got bombarded. Wonder if this is close to what Scoble and Gillmor are looking for. - Mark Trapp
@Mark that's only for noise level 1 ;-) Seriously, though, i'm sorry for turning this on without notice, i thought the default noise level will not generate much traffic. What I forgot to take into account is that the people using the bot are also the most active FF users. - Wil
/noise always says "Noise level has been set to "None"" no matter what level I use. - Jason Wehmhoener
@Jason - somehow the bot was not subscribed to your status, so it couldn't do its job. If you just send a message to it now, it should request to add you, and depending on your client you may or may not have to authorize it. Once that's done, it should work. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for the bug report!! - Wil
I think the default should be noise level 0 to be honest. It keeps resetting back to 1 and annoying me! - Phil Glockner For Hire
It resets because I restarted the bot. I just did it again, this time following your advice to make it level 0 by default. So, for those who actually do want the noise, please do a "/noise up" to turn it back on. - Wil
Yay! I needed to do a /who to get the bot to add me to its contact list and now I am happy getting /noise 2. So cool. :-) - Jason Wehmhoener
