... really good at scraping up bacon and LOLCAT images. ;-) - Chris Baskind
I have a new slogan. FriendFeed, free crowdsourcing at its finest! - Mark Krynsky
Increasing the number of people doesn't necessarily make the selection of material better. Plus, you also end up with a lot of duplication. - Morton Fox
Morton: heh, the repetition tells me it's important! :-) - Robert Scoble
Morton, with the new grouping feature, the duplication just bubbles the story up again. This promotes the "importance" angle while complimenting the "freshness". - Rob Diana
Was hoping they'd make available ad-free pro option for smaller vloggers who aren't commercial. Something inexpensive between $0 and $350/month. Seems like an opportunity for a competitor to jump in. - TDavid
“is there a way to import what is shown on user's Twitter home page (tweets from user and all the people that he/she follows) in FriendFeed ? The current twitter import implementation on FF returns only the tweets posted by the user...”
No because the RSS feed from http://twitter.com/home needs authentication... the Twitter importing applet from FriendFeed is only implemented to pull updates (your tweets). I've hacked it though, by authenticating the http://twitter.com/home on my server, and then hosting the RSS pulled from twitter as a publicly accessible file... - Ntino
Actually, you can use the format http://<username>:<password>@twitter.com/<username>/with_friends. - Alex. Georgiadis
But if I check that my twitter stream is protected then ff needs my password as well. Isn´t that all they need to pull in all of my Twitter home too ? Anyone know if ff does that then ? - Thomas Bøhm
As more and more talk about facebook connect comes up it's time to think about ways to make OpenID more popular. IMHO the main thing to do is not to hide it behind different names. - Christian Scholz
Anything that accepts OpenID should just accept a simple URL, other buttons and logos create clutter. What confuses me is why sites cannot detect OpenID automatically. - Mike Chelen
Mike, intersting idea. If browsers start building in OpenID support, they could send an http header that would make such detection possible. For now the best a site can do is set a cookie to remember that the user used OpenID before. - Bruce Lewis
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Actually, look at facebook connect. It's so easy because you don't have to enter a URL. The button knows it's URL already. This definitely could be something browsers can hook into (is that how the Flock extension works? I haven't tried it yet). If there is widespread support and you browsers can detect these login fields and put your openid in there (maybe even with a logo so you know via which provider you log into) then it might be as easy as FB connect. - Christian Scholz
Christian, what do you think of Clickpass and its one-click OpenID login? - Bruce Lewis
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Just commented on your blog Christian http://tinyurl.com/6ohzsq to sum it up for friendfeed: I don't like the brand name itself. It is just not as descriptive as "Facebook Connect" is. Connect with Facebook - that is what people are understanding. OpenID ? "What ID? Why is it "open" - is that safe? I mean it has to do with my Password - shouldn't it be closed?" Thinks like that I hear really often, when I talk to non-geeks about OpenID! - Sebastian Küpers
Mike Chelen, a Firefox add-on http://Sxipper.com almost does that for you know. It can also remember your OpenID identities and represent them for login in the same way Autofill/Firefox can now represent your identity and password. - John Lam
Bruce, I never looked at clickpass to be honest but will do so. I wonder though if yet another service is the solution ;-) Maybe transitionally but then again it might only be for geeks as it adds more explanation of what clickpass is again. - Christian Scholz
