A decade of Blogger. I remember the days of Pyra Labs and the original blogger, Cool to remember back. Happy 10th Anniversary!!! #Blogger - http://twitter.com/AvatarX...
i love version 1 and version 2 with its "magic" $tag$ (that is how you rounded them) based templates that allowed so much hacking, modding and tricks. still unrivaled. i wrote a post on them in Bloggeratto and about how version 3 caused the explosion of theming and layout design while causing a implosion in hacks, mods and tricks for 2 years. i am biased since i was behind the concepts...
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Friendfeed + Facebook = Friendbook/FaceFeed That means FriendFoo will became FaceFoo? I was just wondering if this means that FriendFoo will then just reach v2 final and that would be it. i guess all depends on facebook reimplementation of their APIs based on Friendfeed and if nothing decent comes in before the year ends. it is very possible that...
Hah. i see from where you are coming from. did you considered the idea of filter scripts for @ coming from twitter?. that would make it all better.
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Just remove posts which has @ at the first from twitter?
- YungSang
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you just like giving me stuff to do don't ya?.. i will do that.. i am replying more and more in twitter. I am contributing to the noise problem here for as long that may be (my guess is to the end of the year)
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Noting that FriendFoo is getting slower and hanging on a little when you call for the Post Form. it also denies to post sometimes.
IE8 handling is actually getting faster and better.
Weird
I am IE8 and everything is fast and responsive. while chrome/iron gets slower. will have to check if it has changed a little in firefox 3.5..find it odd but amusing that just like with Rejawoo, FriendFoo is doing better with IE8...
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That is the Android based HTC Hero that as you can see riffs from Palm Pre a little in style. That is a Plurk Widget and the photo came from someone at Plurk Team. that is why i said that it maybe using the API
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I don't think so. It must be a private API. The internal API for their Ajax has existed from the beginning. What's why I could create the bookmarklet.
- YungSang
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So, there are other lifestream applications which aggregate feeds and allow comments. Profilactic, Storytlr, to name two. Are there others? Are they any good? What would it take for you to migrate to them? Or are we all off to Facebook?
Which ones are OpenSource? If the FriendFeed software was OpenSource, then that would be a certain guarantee for future freedom, as people would set up alternatives in no time, forcing any provider to play friendly with the users... (not implying FF is not doing that!)
- Egon Willighagen
are we being a bit quick off the mark? do we know for sure that FF is going away? And maybe it will but take awhile and something else will come along in the mean time. Unless I have missed news that says otherwise I am not rushing into anything.
- suelibrarian
It's conceivable, but unlikely, that FF will be maintained. Even just leaving the servers running takes money, staff and time. And very similar services have come (and in some cases, gone) already. I'm not rushing out of here either, but the time will come to look at other options.
- Neil Saunders
I think it's safer to assume right now that FF is not going to continue in it's current form. I agree with Neil, other options need to be explored. I don't want to have to sign into Facebook (an increasingly rare event) to keep in touch with everyone here.
- Daniel Swan
God no. I had nicely partitioned Facebook into being mostly for family and RL friends. Adding the "friends" I have here would just confuse the conversations such as they are. The main issues I have with FB is that the "groups" are so closed. As soon as the news from the groups are enabled into the news streams they will become more active. I mostly inhabit FB to find out what my 17yr old is up to. Increasingly she isnt on there either.
- suelibrarian
It seems unlikely that FF would be maintained - particularly just for us. I'm with Sue, its less the privacy issues that bother me as the mixing of conversations that benefit from being (gently) partitioned. I don't know whether FF might consider open sourcing an earlier version of their code but I don't think anything else really has the functionality. What we do have is the community and critical mass to make it work if we can find the right place...
- Cameron Neylon
Noserub is the main Open Source lifestreaming app that I know of. It is not as feature rich (e.g. no groups at the moment) nor as fast as FF, but you can follow someone's FF from a noserub installation as well as following people from other noserub installations. See http://noserub.com and http://identoo.com for an example of a public installation.
- Matt Leifer
Noserub looks potentially interesting as an open source platform. Would be interested to know what people with web management expertise think of it as a tool?
- Cameron Neylon
Facebook is a big NO for me. Thanks for telling alternatives, I'll surely try them all...
- Marcos Marado
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The gov. agency I work for has been developing a FF-like application for a while now. See my profile at http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian. We do aim to open source it, but that's probably a way off at the moment. But if anyone is looking at trying to develop this from scratch, DM me, because I'd love to try and make something happen.
- Nick Lothian
One problem with noserub is that it is ridiculously slow at the moment, especially if you are used to FriendFeed levels of performance. However, it is the closest to FF of any of the open source social media projects that I know of. Also, the federated approach is definitely something I would like to see in a future FF replacement.
- Matt Leifer
Streamy certainly has a better demo video ;)
- JSNFLMNG
Hmm. Streamy looks nice but I just tested it for 10 mins, around 9 of which were spent staring at an unresponsive browser, waiting for my CPU fan to stop howling.
- Neil Saunders
I have installed both Elgg and noserub. Elgg is not really very close to FF because it is trying to be an all-purpose social networking engine. It is more flexible than noserub but would take quite a lot of coding to turn it into a FF clone.
- Matt Leifer
Does anyone know how many regular users FF have?
- Ola
I don't think facebook will work for the kind of info sharing we have here. It would be too much noise for existing facebook friends, which tend to be more personal friends and less professional acquaintances, and the personal stuff would be too much noise for our science-focused group here. As most of you know, I am a big fan of the federated approach, but has it improved enough in usability to make it feasible if FF shut down tomorrow?
- Mr. Gunn
I'd be willing to put cash into a pool to pay someone with serious web scaling credibility in this community (Matt Wood? Neil Saunders? there are people out there, I'm just not really sure who is best qualified) to assess the scalability and suitability of Noserub/Elgg or any other appropriate framework to actually work for the general research community and to cost development pathways. I'd really like a professional opinion on the options.
- Cameron Neylon
I'd say Matt is your man for web scaling credibility/development from our community. Today, I find myself hopeful that FF might just be maintained "as is" and we can stop worrying, since Paul writes "I don't want to see it disappear".
- Neil Saunders
I'm hoping that too, Neil, but it just seems like too much of a "buy and bury" move to me.
- Mr. Gunn
I will be interested to see what happens. I've enjoyed FF, but perhaps I'm showing my age by finding the excitement over it (and the anxiety over its removal) to be a little overblown. As a Usenet veteran, I find the lack of threaded comments rather primitive; the feed aggregation is interesting and the Ajax is great, but I'd be surprised if they aren't replicated elsewhere. IMO, worries that the community will dissipate are excessive: communities rise and fall all the time.
- Ian Holmes
Despite my many posts to the contrary, I'm not too concerned either :-) I like FF, I think it's a great demo of how the right technology can enable conversation within/between communities. But it's only a website. There are multiple ways to find people and information - FF is just a particularly effective one.
- Neil Saunders
For me identoo is winning: it lacks "hide" to be a usable replacement, and then lot's of features that will come with time. Being opensource, we can easilly affect its roadmap even if not with code ;-)
- Marcos Marado
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I believe that the FF team honestly wants to keep FF around, but it no longer matters what they want -- and what FaceBook doesn't want is another site that makes them look bad, even if they own it. FF is doomed, mark my words, doomed. Dooooomed. I'm with Cameron, I'd happily contribute to a fund to pay for a professional opinion on how to build and pay for a science-centric FF clone. If...
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- Bill Hooker
what about Google Wave? Will it be replacement of FF?
- Alexey
Nick Lothian - I'd be interesting in talking with you about what neds to be built. Cameron Neylon - I know a few things about web scaling and I would be happy to help evaluate frameworks.
- Jordan M
Tons of options out there people http://lifestreamblog.com/create... Covering Lifetreaming services, scripts, and apps has been my passion for over two years. You got questions? I should have answers.
- Mark Krynsky
what? no mention of Lifestream.fm?. shocking.
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You could just add Lists to Facebook just like you do in here and add FF people into that list.
- Manuel Mas
Liking that identoo at least has all the same services.
- Mr. Gunn
Friendfeed Alternatives:
1.-Lifestream.fm (but it is not real-time)
2.-Plurk if it gets a API or Accepts Feeds (it's semi real time and got good search)
3.-Streamy (it is more of a feedly and greader competitor actually than a friendfeed alternative)
A certain amount of anemia is not a bad thing in social media IMHO (fewer but better?)...
- Ciro
Yeah. Friendfeed was not growing anywhere but in the U.K for the past 3 months. Not that long ago i said that based on active accounts and registered accounts from Twitter. Friendfeed was already 23 times smallers in registered users and 10 times smaller when it came to active users. I imagine that if i recalculated it for today it would 30 times smaller than twitter for registrations...
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Love Spotify, not in the US yet though.
- Jessica Lares
Very jealous Louis- can't wait for a good software music offering (have never liked iTunes). Pleasantly surprised with some of your musical interests (Deadmau5, Underworld, Armin, etc.)
- Alex Calic
@spotify is nice, but the name can be confused with @topify, a very useful tool in the Twitterverse.
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
You don't need a invitation. just sign up with a U.K mail address and connect via a U.K vpn and it will work. I am in Mexico and i can use it without any problem and for free of course. There is also a way to use the premium service without paying but that i will not share for obvious reasons.
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I also like the Echo app for Last.FM when you want a more online radio experience. Otherwise i just use my Zune Pass most of the time.
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Jesse: So what should I write about? :) I've already got an entry in progress doing a pre-release review of Peter Seibel's Coders at Work. What else?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, anything. It's good to just write at least semi-regularly. Speak what's on your mind. I often keep a list so when I don't have something to write about I can refer back to.
- Jesse Stay
My goal is usually at least twice a week, but I should probably still be doing more. Twice a week is sufficient for most, though.
- Jesse Stay
It's really nice...I don't know if I'll continue using it, just because, as you said, I am not a heavy IM user, but, again, it looks really nice. Facebook support seems to be limited to incoming only.
- Ciro
Yeah. that the only downside. you HAVE to be a heavy multi im network user so it is worth it. otherwise Windows Live Messenger + Messenger Plus is all you will need..
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the only big one that is.. since it is 1.-Twitter, 2.- Friendfeed, 3.-Plurk..
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Weird. i noted because i loaded them up and the creatures appeared in plurk and in twitter it just gave a "cannot access site" message
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Message sounds OAuth trouble. It should be 401 or 403 but there's a developer who said he gets 404 after revoking OAuth access.
- NaHi
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ummm, looks like it only happens in IE8. Iron logged in normally. will reload in IE8
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And now it works again.. maybe it was just a little outage..
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Yeah, it sorts out if you log in from another browser and then return back and reload from the browser that could not access.
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Firefox 3.5: Renders perfectly, transitions are fine. Impossible to post: Not Entirely a Go
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IE8 in Standards Mode: Good Rendering, Good Transitions, perfect posting and searching. only thing is that it triggers Script Warnings sometimes
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Thanks a lot. Opera: I know that as same as v1. Firefox 3.5: Hmm. I will figure this out. IE: I got some JavaScript heavy processing warnings as well. I don't know why...
- YungSang
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I can't open the post dialog properly at the first time on my Firefox 3.5.1/Mac with a clean profile, either, as I mentioned at the other entry about Firefox issue.
- YungSang
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But after you install GreaseMonkey and my userscript, you will be able to use it on Firefox, as well.
- YungSang
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Can't we just use it in Bubbles the way we did with Rejawoo?
- Kelly
Give me a few minute. I will create a bubble box for v2.
- YungSang
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Done. bubbles://yungsang.com/friendfoo/v2/friendfoo.bblbox Copy & paste the above url into the address bar in your browser as always.
- YungSang
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Wow, that was fast. But I am getting a script error and it's not working if I stop the script or not.
- Kelly
Well, it's not EVERY time, but most of the time. Like I said, I can live with it. It's not a big deal.
- Kelly
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I see. That is a good hint for me. I will figure it out. Thanks anyway.
- YungSang
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Well, I will still use it, because I really like your apps. If you get it fixed, then that's great. If not, it's not a big deal. =)
- Kelly
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I have tested also SSB scenarios.. Bubbles and Prism are a Epic Fail. only way to enjoy FriendFoo v2 right now is via Chrome/Iron 3 as SSB
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IE8 thinks it is unsafe code since it is running too fast.. The only other applications that caused this in IE8 were TurboJuitter and PubSubHub or whatever its name is.
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TurboJuitter is a Jquery Semi Real Time Twitter search widget
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the regular juitter causes the prompts but only after 30 minutes or so of running since it is also ram hungry. it was in the page of the WPC09. in the MSI Wind it caused this issue 30 minutes in.
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others that had high end machines simply reported the ram consume but not prompts.
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maybe.. but i can confirm it is a javascript related behavior more than anything. After all i have access to the biggest and more complex JS app there is.. and there is no issues with IE8 but the very same prompts after you have it running for 50 minutes.
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That app is known as Web Office Apps of course ;)
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the MS Ajax mode. the other mode is Silverlight 3 and that is not live entirely
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Office Web Apps got two modes. the MS Ajax mode and the SL3 mode. and there is not biggest use of Ajax ever than Excel Web. it is better than Zoho or Google Docs. that i assure you.
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yeah. only got access for less than 24hrs. they are very cautious of it.
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but nevermind. i am sure that the issue is indeed in the javascript behavior and something about IE8 guidelines or something.
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in Opera 10 and Firefox 3.5 it is also a issue since when you click post you get the spinner and the spinner never ends loading.
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if you want pictures of that. i can load them here.
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Opera 10, too? Though I've never tested it on Opera.
- YungSang
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Firefox 3 en ubuntu gets the same prompts that IE8/7 get in Windows. but the post, transitionts and reply work perfectly
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Firefox 3.5 is worse and got all the issues of the firefox 3.5 windows versions plus the ones of opera 10 in windows and the ones of IE8 in windows.
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oh i forgot about safari 4 in windows.. will add it here later. but in windows Safari and Opera are the very less used browsers.
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But Firefox 3.5 with my usercript is fine and never seen that prompts at all in mac.
- YungSang
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even in linux Opera is already the third browser behind Chrome/Iron Linux.
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It works best for me in Chrome, so that's what I'm using now, because the script errors in Bubbles tend to get on the nerves after a while. It's working perfectly in Chrome on Vista.
- Kelly
@Kelly Brown yes. that is pretty much the consensus so far.
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