Note to self: remind April she's awesome
- Glenn Slaven
You made enchilada's from scratch. You've gotta be a pretty awesome person to do that.
- EricaJoy
Well...I've had some help. My nanny's sister made and provided the sauce. But she'll show me how to make it so that I will be able to do it myself in the future.
- April Buchheit
My husband is awesome, too. It's likely that he's infectious.
- April Buchheit
April: swine flu is a virus, so if Cipro worked it wasn't the flu.
- Gabe
You're too awesome to burden your awesomeness with less than awesome, indeed downright administrivial, thoughts. What say you forget about it, and I'll be the keeper of your awesomeness, periodically reminded?
- ianf ⌘
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- Jim Norris
I find a post-it note stuck to the bathroom mirror is quite helpful for remembering stuff. That way you'll be reminded that you are awesome first thing in the morning (or whenever you get around to brushing your teeth).
- Maggie
The bottom of FriendFeed's page should have a "Best of day" link. That way people who scroll to the bottom of the page would be offered something new to do to stay on FriendFeed instead of leaving.
Why not just click on Older Items, and then you can see he same items you just saw (i.e. whatever items now have numbers 31-60) in a different order?
- j1m
j1m, at least the way I do FF is scan the page to see what's going on now, then scan the best of day if I want to read more. I had never clicked on Older Items until you mentioned it, and have to say I probably won't again. But if you had a "best of day" link at the bottom of the page, I would stay on FF longer.
- Matt Cutts
high engagement, poor recirculation. i imagine (hope) this will change in the future.
- sean percival
how about a shortcut key that automatically brought you to the top of the page... thats where the freshest content would be plus scrolling can be terrible if youve opened a thread with lots of comments
- Frankie Warren
pageless scrolling is nice too :) let them go all the way down this river.
- sean percival
they should at least integrate a button to jump to the top of the page?
- Hans Kainz
My daughter wants an iPhone. She's a little young for one (age 6), so I made her one out of paper instead. She's coloring in the icons now. - http://picasaweb.google.com/mike...
so...you have a shrink-ray and you're all gonna fit in there?!? 'Cos I would hold out for something a little more likely to pass building regs if I were you!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Amazing to actually see this stuff. Strikes me as something a paranoid person would come up with. Imagine all the containers disappearing overnight :-)
- Doug Jones
I hate it. I love it! I haven't even scrolled down to the bottom yet. Hold on.......ok, it's good. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Cheers Bret & team - it's feeling pretty good so far (which includes initial gut reaction)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Nice job. I can at the very least say it is a big improvement aesthetically. I haven't finished checking everything out yet, but so far so good.
- Rolf Schewe
I miss the ability to have a Firefox sidebar setup that just had my list of items scrolling past and nothing else along the side like this view: http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
- Justin Yost
Reshare will be back. Just an artifact of beta-testing, didn't make it in for this morning
- Bret Taylor
Our settings vary to prevent things shuffling around excessively. We bubble up when someone you are subscribed to comments.
- Bret Taylor
also wish i can add links/pics/embed in the "comments"...for example, i'd like to include an image of my email from http://www.emailcover.com, but it only shows up as a link
- brainno722 (Peter)
Can you open an existing conversation in a new window?
- Barak B
1st look is good, like the real time...didn't make it to the bottom the first few minutes. Also the comment box drops down as I am commenting now...message got off screen ;)
- Sanne Buurma
please add keyboard shortcut for play/pause feed
- Ouriel Ohayon
Agree with Andy, dislike the fugly grey
- Sally Church
Barak: click on the timestamp to open a conversation in a new window.
- Kevin Mohr
Barack B : you can click the time and select open in new window.
- Simon Wicks
refresh the page would move up the item which have newest comment?
- Tony
sad grey: why don't you let everyone choose the colour of the background?
- Davide Leonelli
Grey or not, rather think about what the beta has to offer in functionality
- Sanne Buurma
Please, bring back service icons near each post — it's very hard to scan information flow without them. Also hope you'll do something with new subscription module — it's unuseful while managing a lot of imaginary friends.
- Yury Vetrov
Wait, is the frequent shifting up and down of items I'm reading (i.e. the items in view) really supposed to work out well? I suppose you guys tried it for a while and you just got used to it?
- j1m
Peter, yep but thankfully the Cleaner FriendFeed GM script still works in Chrome and FFox, which does this for you.
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't like: broke my Blocks list, Block not available from Hover Menu
- Will Higgins™
Why Will Higgins have a superscript of "TM"? how typed in?
- Tony
it keeps the bad low-contrast grey on white text for comments that deters me from reading it. You made the main text bigger, now make the comment text black.
- Kevin Marks
Will: block will be back, just missing today, but it is not something we are removing (just something we didn't get in for this morning)
- Bret Taylor
I think you guys should really embrace the idea of hashtags. Let us add them to other people's posts, having various services auto-tag imported items, let us search on them using filters. Tagging is one great way for us to get a handle on the volume of information here.
- Kevin Kuphal
What's with the orange and the green on the side? Its a bit ugly if you ask me. Also, is there a way to change this, as well as make the beta permanent? (I like living on the cutting edge).
- darnell
I too like the orange and green. It's the blue I'm not sure about. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Yeah, but it clashes with the logo. Either Friendfeed needs to change their logo, or get rid of the colors. Or (even better) allow users to change the colors. :-)
- darnell
Looks horrible to me, I think we should have a customizable interface more like iGoogle, I like the idea though, just more customization, like sidebar customization, friend lists, realtime widget, chat widget, all movable and arrangeable, there sure is enough space etc...
- Kyle Weller
I'm with Kyle and Darnell - I like being able to customize my GMail colours, and having that feature on FF would be cool
- nouhad
Ignoring 71 previous comments... I really like the new design! One request: allow the pause button to follow my cursor as a scroll down the page!
- Chris Messina
+1 Chris Messina. That would be an awesome feature.
- Beau Liening
Add a floating "COMMENT" feature at the bottom of each thread, so I don't have to scroll up to click "comment"... this is a weird experience in new beta UI
- Susan Beebe
@Ari: This is why I really think tagging is what they need to focus on. If we could each add #ffbeta or something to our own posts as well as others, you get the trending and other features that twitter already has. Combine this with filters and you really get some killer information management features.
- Kevin Kuphal
I really like having one UI instead of different modes (normal, realtime, miniwindow), but to support the old "mini window" experience, perhaps allow the right hand side bar with filters and subscriptions to be collapsible?
- Karl Rosaen
@Karl: API is key here. Twitter isn't massively popular because their website rocks. Twitter is massively popular because there's a massive layer of applications built on top of it. Build that for FF and you have the same potential growth
- Kevin Kuphal
I wish it could use more of the screen real estate of my monitor, given my normal window size, it has large amounts of unused space on either size of the content due to the fixed layout. Maybe a multi-column mode?
- Ray Cromwell
@Krishnamoorthy rooms I believe have changed to feeds beta.friendfeed.com/[room_name]
- Lou Paglia
the new design works better for me. I am sure there will be glitches, but so far so good.
- Sharon Hurley Hall
Is there a way to change my prefs over to to the beta so I don't have to keep entering beta.friendfeed...?
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: there's a link to expand all comments, there should be one to collapse them as wel.
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: after expanding comments you scroll all the way to the bottom reading the thread, then you have scroll all the way back up to click the Comment link. Why not have it at the bottom of the thread too.
- Ryan Stanley
Feature suggestion: FF needs a built-in way of referring to people publicly, just like Twitter's @. Perhaps use the same convention. But there needs to be a way people to address each other in public threads, so a user can make sure to be informed when people are talking or referring to them.
- Ryan Stanley
going to read through faq - roadmap of what made beta & what's going away would be nice - big concern for me is the lose of ability to expand lists to see individual participants - i find that one of ff's strongest features - that and block but i see from earlier in this thread that its will make it in later in beta (whew)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
A Pause button that follows you on page scroll could be more distracting than it's worth. But how about something like it appears upon a white space mousedown/mouseup event.
- Micah
Hmm, I tried to read this thread, but I never got to the bottom, because the unexpected shifts of the text just became too much after a while. Fundamentally, if the page keeps shifting up and down unexpectedly, it's hard to see how anyone's ever going to read it -- hence the many requests for a floating pause button, which would help. You could also imagine pause on hover. Being able to read down the page without having the text disappear seems to me like the #1 use case of ff.
- j1m
Of course, it's not really like you want Pause -- the real-time updates are great when they're below wherever the eyes are :-)
- j1m
Bret - Great job! There are certainly things to clean up before this interface goes to the main page. Rooms should REALLY be on the subscribed list on the right hand column. I would LOVE to be able to put Blank Lines in comments. I don't care if they count for a whole lines worth of characters (as opposed to a more common one character for the cr/lf) Blank lines make comments more legible and clear than just a runtogether paragraph.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't like how the interface STILL loses my place if I subscribe to someone while posting a comment (or even reading it!) I should be able to subscribe to YOU while I read YOU and not lose my page place. The Page should need to be refreshed to reset everyone because of the new subscription.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't know about the queued items, I like the real time feed, having selectable speeds instead of "over-caffination required mode" would be good. Most discussions this is irrelevant, but the discussion on tis new beta this morning (i.e. on scoble's feed) showed how insane that can be.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The real-time-only feed in the beta is causing Safari 4b on my MacBook use up a lot of CPU cycles, hence depleting the battery faster. I'm sure FF3 will too. Please consider an "ECO Mode" similar to the current standard mode, which only refreshes once every few minutes, for those running their machines on battery power. Without such an eco-mode, and with the rapid-fire pace of live updates, I fear that I won't be using FFeed much at all. Certainly not leaving that tab open for hours on end like I used to.
- Siddharth Deb
I don't know if I've done something, or you guys did, but when I look here, I only have a few services setup in the account, when I go to the old interface I have a LOT more -I'm not certain that everything is feeding through? (i.e. I have Digg and Disqus set up, I see the correct list of icons on the old interface, but on the beta "settings" popup, No Dice. Even if this is irrelevant to the actual data flow, please fix this to make me sleep well at night. ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
One more thing - Could we have a character counter in the comments? It would be REALLY nice, if my account is setup to post this comment to my twitter account, and it's going to post the link to this discussion, please Add the number of characters in the link (plus a space) to the total character count. That way I won't be truncating the comment and/or the URL when it gets to twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Another thing: I used to be able to click the "More" next to a single discussion, and "Link to this discussion" Where is that? If this is an outmoded way of thinking please let me know. Otherwise, um...can we have that feature back?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: the timestamp ("9 hours ago") is the permalink
- Benjamin Golub
do you need a techno dunce to help the average joe make sense of this?? haha...i love it...
- Lauren Shanahan
Very twitter like. But better due to nice conversational.
- xia
I actually kinda like the grey... though it does look like it's an opportunity to let companies brand the background in some way.
- Frankie Warren
For cc to Twitter functionality, can the number of characters be a count-down instead of a count-up?
- Winston Teo
I'd like to second the notion that there should be a way to address an individual within a thread...the agreed upon "Rob:" works great, but maybe could be clickable so that there's no confusion as to which Rob or which Scoble you're talking to ;) (i.e. maybe a CTRL-Click or something on the person's name after their comment to start a new comment with their name at the beginning? )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The grey background looks kinda dullish, and it looks like someone ran out of ideas for colours..
- Winston Teo
IMO avatars occupy way too much real estate now, I liked the smaller ones better.
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
thsi is nothing on the new design, but after being on here all night with no attention to a down twitter, I am reminded of this: It would be nice if I could set the post to twitter for comments and likes a) permanent b) off or C) on a per comment/like basis -twitter users say this "yeah, when ppl I follow flood me with FF spam ... I usually unfollow ... even block if it irritates me enough." And I would like to be able to be easily selective of what gets put through, and it would get more GOOD attn for FF
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
please, for the love of god, move the "comment" link to the BOTTOM of the list of comments. seriously, am I the only one who can't believe this hasn't been fixed for so long?
- Dossy Shiobara
Great stuff! :-) FriendFeed does it better than Facebook. Please go real-time all the way for subscription requests and confirmatoions too.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
I dont like nofollows on friendfeed and links are moved to urls very bad :(
- Turkey banned Bloggum :(
It's not bad, but I prefer the smoothness of the old one to the lines and edges in this new one.
- scott willeke
I love the new letter-counting post widget in the beta though.
- scott willeke
at first glance, find it much more readable than the old one. Pity there still isn't "my items that were liked or commented by others"
- Stephanie Booth
from twhirl
Stephanie: comments:1 likes:1 from:sbooth
- Justin Long
stephanie & justin - that is in the catch all http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter... - i went and liked/commented on something from each of you that had no other activity - you should both see that bubble up in /discussions...
- mike "glemak" dunn
LOVE THE NEW BETA ! the new filter is so powerful, more powerful if you could add "language parameter"!!
- foxmachia {山石}
still waiting for direct-to-room links on the right column, is it planned? (with lastupdated timestamps if possible)
- Kemal Hadimli
"If you're an enterprise customer and want to take advantage of Google App Engine, but have a large and cumbersome legacy system, we want to make it easy for you to port to the cloud."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
It is the language I have written more code in than any other, so me = happy :)
- Deepak Singh
Finally! After all this time doing App Engine outreach, I can finally make all those people who have been begging me for FORTRAN happy. Whew!
- Jeff Eddings
Ugh, why couldn't they try a bit harder and let us use Fortran92? Now I'm going to have to remove all of my '92'isms before running the numerical windtunnel simulator on AppEngine. Sheesh.
- no name
The picture was awesome. But ... you know you're a giant geek when you're bugged by the sentence about sensors in the suit overheating... optical mocap is done with passive reflectors on the suit; all the electronics are external.
- Andrew C (✓)
"awesome. But ... optical mocap is done with passive reflectors on the suit; all the electronics are external" THIS QUOTE is exhibit A as to why the court has ruled that the FriendFeed community rocks. Case closed.
- Micah
oh, well maybe i should take it off my wishlist then. since it lives nextdoor.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Unquestionably the greatest board game of all time.
- Stephen Mack
+1 to Catan. +1 to Catan on XBox. +1 to Carcassonne. +1 to Carcassonne on XBox.
- Steve and 3 other people
@Stephen Mack: I'm certainly not willing to say it's the greatest board game of all time. It's a good game. I like it. My only complaint is that if you don't manage to get a good starting location, you can guarantee a loss before the game really starts. Other than that, it's a blast.
- Cyrus Lendvay
I used to be a big fan of catan, but hardly play it these days. Instead I play Race for the Galaxy, multiple games per week, for over a year now. It's better than Catan in my opinion, I highly recommend it.
- Evan Parker
But but but! I said "unquestionably" and I will brook no dissent.
- Stephen Mack
And clearly Race For The Galaxy, an amazingly great game, is a card game, not a board game. Not to disagree with Evan.
- Stephen Mack
Catan, Carcassonne, et al., are great gateway games to introduce people to the wonderful world of Eurogames and away from the Milton Bradley/Parker Bros. stranglehold. However, there are far, far better games out there than these. Look into Agricole, Twilight Struggle, Through the Ages, and fun Ameritrash stuff like Arkham Horror.
- Akiva
Tongiaki is also fun and sort of similar (in that it has hexagonal game board pieces).
- Clare Dibble
"Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How are you going to tackle any exciting design problems if you're constantly fighting about the trivial ones?
- Andrew C (✓)
The key is that experiments should replace endless debate, not complement it. And only promising experiments should be performed: they are a cost too. But what this the alternative: pick any shade of blue? Or let the Highest Pay Employee in the room make the decision?
- Antonio Piccolboni
Hire experts and trust their expertise. Otherwise why hire them?
- Scott Ludwig
I agree. I think a lot of companies are not putting design in the forefront. Maybe that is why Apple is doing so well?
- Tim Hoeck
"Faculty voted unanimously this week to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write. MIT plans to create a repository to make these articles available online. The resolution, effective immediately after it was passed on Wednesday, makes MIT the first university to commit to making its faculty’s research papers publicly available."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Something tells me MIT researchers won't have too much trouble with their research funding. What's exciting to me is that this will help set norms for researchers at other universities who want to do the same, but *are* worried about their funding.
- Joel Webber
I wonder how this would affect Defense and classified research.
- Mark Trapp
@Mark, considering that it's a punishable offense to publish confidential or classified information, MIT must have a clause that keeps that type of research separate from the work they do without DoD funding.
- no name
I think I'm more or less alone in liking the new Google favicon. Yet I hate the new Pepsi logo (but of course, I hate Pepsi, being an Atlantan). There's something about the amorphous asymmetry that annoys me (yes, I know the Google logo is asymmetric as well, but it seems ok somehow).
- Joel Webber
I could learn to like the Google favicon, though the 'vibration' caused by putting bright green and red together, and the altogether Christmasy feel of the right side are hard to ignore.
- Kevin Fox
I also like the new favicon (certainly far more than the lowercase blue-g version, at least). I think the middle image above actually looks more like a piece of the old Pepsi logo than the new one.
- Laurence Gonsalves
Great link between the images. Red and green, never thought of it but I made some observation, there's two sections of blue, which is a bit weird. And a lot of green compared to the yellow and red, probably to fit with those curves. (the bottom left corner of the upper part of the g)
- Zu from AOD
I didn't like the original 'new favicon', but the current new one is so bad I finally started using the 'classic Google favicon' userscript.
- Andrew C (✓)
It would start by taking the MSN butterfly logo and swapping the position of the green and yellow bits...
- Andrew C (✓)
im more annoyed by the change (for no good reason?) than the design. i was so used to the old favicon that for a long time after they changed to the blue one, it took me a few seconds longer every time i was going back to the google results tab in the browser, because i kept looking for the tab with the old favicon every time.
- Lasse Johnsen
I don't think polarizing implies good design nor vice-versa.
- Andrew C (✓)
I actually kinda like the new Google favicon. At least more than the blue lowercase one. And maybe rather than 'like' I should say 'am used to,' since that was the extent of my feelings towards the initial Google favicon, too. I didn't particularly like it. I was just used to it, cuz it was the capital G. That's it.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, I don't think that design is good if and only if it's polarizing. I don't even know that I think that there is a causal relationship in either direction. I could get behind the idea that there is a correlation, but I've seen plenty of designs that are universally thought of as great (no polarization needed).
- Chieze Okoye
maybe this is due to the shortness imposed by tweeter, people have to say meaningful and precise thing in a short stream, this is why brevity and idea encapsulation work on twitter.
- abdellah
But in this case he said more on twitter than in the blog post title.
- Paul Buchheit
yes, but in the twitter message there is the need to point to the article, so this is why the headline have to be significant catchy and strong, in the blog the author think that he get his audience then the headline is less powerful.
- abdellah
Actually, I think it's just because Twitter encourages a more conversational tone, which is generally better than the usual title/subject "tone".
- Paul Buchheit
Limitation encourages more creativity
- John Samuel
better then !! resume the stuff, better from what point of view? it is better from the point that the twitter one is more appealing and this is the main job to do. in the blog post the headline have just to push people to read more, a better test would be to inverse I mean to post the blog headline as a tweet and the tweet as blog post headline :) and I agree limitation encourage creativity.
- abdellah
sounds like people need to think more about what their blog titles are. I've tried over the past six months specifically to think about how my blog title will be shared alone other places.
- Thomas Hawk
I agree, it is must likely that people in twitter will click the Link, it is more personal than choosing your post title. It would be a good Idea to check the titles on the post vs the tweets that led to them to see the whole picture. 10x
- Iaax Page
Sounds like he said it all in the tweet ?- makes you wonder why there was a blog posting at all. Neither the tweet nor the blog post title makes me want to read on so if the goal is to encourage reading the blog post I think both fail.
- Brian Sullivan
I stopped pushing my blog feed to Twitter and FF. I think it is more personal (and people are more apt to click) if I do the linking by hand with some context around it. However, I don't think I'd do what Matt did and add the 'short summary' bit.
- Scott Kingery
Before syndication, blog post titles were ornamental. Mine are often a convoluted pun that only makes sense after you've read the entry (like Diesel Sweeties does, only not as funny). I'm always horrified to see FF posting the title without any content, because they were never intended to stand on their own. (It's probably time to acknowledge the growing contexts and start writing more independent titles.)
- Seth
"I'm always horrified to see FF posting the title without any content" A good blog post title absolutely should work on its own, without any further context... what Nielsen and others call microcontent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (edited the article to include Nielsen's definition). Whether it should give away everything is another question. If you're interested in Matt Cutts' writings in general, his book review title is pretty self-explanatory and might get you interested to click-through by
- Philipp Lenssen
Best Practice may be to have nice summaries in your blog feed. Matt's feed, for example, has limited-length excerpts from the post. If he added it as a Generic post with the proper checkbox checked that summary would appear as the first comment. Not ideal, but better than just the title...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin - any idea whether the 'Excerpt' box on wordpress would serve this function? I never put anything in there.
- Hutch Carpenter
I use MediaRSS and summaries in our Antarctica feed: http://friendfeed.com/kfury... I don't know if WordPress's 'Excerpt' functionality matches up with this, but I think so. I'm about to start using WP full time for my personal blog, so I'll definitely be checking it out.
- Kevin Fox
Cool - I'll try adding an Excerpt to my next post, see what happens.
- Hutch Carpenter
I use Drupal, but from observation of people on FriendFeed using WordPress, I believe you might need a plugin for Media RSS support.
- Mark Trapp
Yeah Mark, and it's spotty and undependable...
- anna sauce
I think it's fair to say that a title should stand on its own as a title, but it's not reasonable to expect titles to be summaries. Feed items can explicitly contain a summary. If one is provided, great! If not, why not show a snippet of the content?
- Seth
"If you watch the movie `Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." (via Reddit) - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
If you watch Memento backwards it is about a man who, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
- DeWitt Clinton
"If you watch Rambo backwards, it's Sylvester Stallone healing people with his magical bullet vacuum. And repairing helicopters with nothing but a bow and arrow."
- Private Sanjeev
If you watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button backwards, it's about a guy living his life. BORing.
- Ted Gilchrist
If you watch Star Wars IV backwards, it's about a young man who after building the Death Star and imprisoning a princess goes AWOL from the military and goes to live on a farm on a desert planet.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
If you watch the last 3 decades backwards its about my political party slowly figuring out how to apply their core values to the problems of the day in a way that voters respond to *le sigh*
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@DeWitt that truly is amazing!!!! HAHA!!!!
- Benno
@mark @lindsey sometimes I have to laugh just to keep from crying
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
If you watch Wizard of Oz backwards, a girl has a dream about taking a balloon to a far off place who then gives trinkets to a Wizard and resurrects a witch and goes to the Wizard again, following a yellow brick road to a land of munchkins, says goodbye to a good witch and resurrects another witch with a house and then wakes up to a tornado and a bad old lady who gives her a dog - oddly, the same dog in the dream. The End?
- Erich Miller
It feels kind of twitterish, that's not necesssarily a bad thing btw.
- Mathieu Ayel
Actually I really like the box appearing on the right hand side with view/share/like. It unclutters the UI. Also like the fact that the items on the stream are separated by a line. It makes visually easier to digest the bites...
- Mathieu Ayel
"perhaps I should do a post on "20% time" at some point..." Yes. Also an idea, license your blog under Creative Commons.
- Philipp Lenssen
Yeah, it has a lot of problems with high volume posters. I actually had to temporarily unsubscribe from Scoble so that other people would show up as well :). This started off with me wondering if our realtime view (http://friendfeed.com/realtime) could have some kind of threading added in. It doesn't really work in a lot of cases, but by putting the code out there I'm hoping that it will inspire other people to come up with interesting new interfaces (and also show how easy it is to use our API).
- Paul Buchheit
@Peter: A sticky post that remains at the top until I decide otherwise would be fantastic. I'd also like the ability to change the number of items I see per page. @Paul: Kudos on the realtime and for the API.
- AJ Kohn
This API is absolutely simple and easy to use - but the styles interfere with my css and my poor coding is not up to sorting them out so that I can add the FF-UI to one of my pages rather than put it on a separate page. Heaps of fun to use. http://www.chrisloft.com/myFF...
- Chris Loft
not really diggin it to be honest. as an optional or additional way to view ff it could work for those who choose, but i think the one we have currently looks a little better
- Cee Bee
yeah - i prefer this. its instantly recodnisable as FF. the prototype looks more like Twitter.
- Roberto Bonini
I will get used to whatever UI you put on top of FF, so I'm not to worried about what sites it does or doesn't look like. This approaches what I would really like for FF, which is to set a rate of information flow (maybe even have some sort of dial). There are already recommended friends, which would be smarter when I have time to waste than surfing "everyone", but I could dial it way back on busy days. This would also help with discovery because I could add people to my home feed if I like their stuff.
- Clare Dibble
Been checking it out with my own name replacing yours..it's an entirely new perspective on FF. Could be good...not sure yet. Thanks for posting.
- Josh Haley
I just realized that it looks surprisingly like a chi.mp site. I.e. http://sunla.mp/
- jho
It looks a bit like twitter, I think we could utilize a couple different ui designs in "settings"
- Kyle Weller
"Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 13440 of July 20, 2007, is revoked. All executive directives, orders, and regulations inconsistent with this order, including but not limited to those issued to or by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 11, 2001, to January 20, 2009, concerning detention or the interrogation of detained individuals, are revoked to the extent of their inconsistency with this order."
- Christian
from Bookmarklet
Came here from from my "experimental feed" actually. Would love to "comment" and "like" inline, like with the Realtime view.
- vijay
Yeah, inline comment and like would definitely be nice, but it was a quick prototype :). Also, it uses the unauthenticated APIs, so it can't comment or like right now.
- Paul Buchheit
Me likes big photos and Tumblr look!
- Robert Scoble
excellent post... prototype, prototype, prototype! live code early out of the gate is key.
- Susan Beebe
The rate of innovation in core FF so outpaces that of Twitter; I wonder if this philosophy plays a role. Anyway, it's pretty cool!
- Emil Sit
Very nice article, I think I'll try to prototype as much as I can, it's so much interesting than "powerpointing".
- Sebastien
Love this quote: 'if you want innovation, it's critical that people are able to work on ideas that are unapproved and generally thought to be stupid'
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
An issue I have had with my prototypes in the past is that some people would nitpick over the design, not-implemented-yet sections, or not fully implemented features. They miss the functionality of the prototype. I think I just need to build better prototypes. :)
- Alan Le
The prototype looks very similar to the real time view, I guess the ability to prototype with just an HTML file and JavaScript code is the real deal.
- Shakeel Mahate
Alan, maybe the problem was with your testers. It helps to have people who are experienced exploring new things. People who say "I don't get what this is good for" and keep exploring are the right testers. People who say "I don't get what this is good for" and give up tell you something, but aren't who you need at the beginning.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I hope you do the post you mentioned on 20% time -- and just know that lots of programmers will be using your post to try and convince their boss(es) of the value of it. I've been trying for too long.
- Chris Lamprecht
"More importantly, I wasn't the only one who found the ads surprisingly relevant. Suddenly, content targeted ads switched from being a lowest-priority project (unstaffed, will not do) to being a top priority project, an extremely talented team was formed to build the project, and within maybe six months a live beta was launched. Google's content targeted ads are now a big business with billions of dollars in revenue (I think)."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Paul, what's your favorite prototyping language / tool / environment / architecture?
- Christopher Galtenberg
"We've just added a friend importer for Twitter so you can easily find and subscribe to your Twitter friends who are already on FriendFeed."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Nice! Just used it, thanks to the FF team. There were a couple odd mis-matches that I caught, though: Thomas Rauscher (https://friendfeed.com/wuz) != @hotdogsladies
- Micah
I'm confusednow! I think I need it the otherway around :)
- Vicky
Sooo. Does this collect non ff twitter users?
- Phill Price
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I also almost posted about such a feature this morning. I guess in theory I could create imaginary friends for all the twitter users I follow that are NOT on FriendFeed... is there a way to automate that? And then perhaps convert them to non-imaginary friends once they join? :)
- Dylan Parker
Some are not who they say they are.. Got a few in my list 'Mark Hobbs @patricknorton, Ron Perrella @leolaporte (private feed)' Other than those, great stuff, thought id done something like this to start with when i first signed up, guess not.
- Simon Wicks
Simon: we do our best to make sure someone is who they say they are before recommending them but a few could slip through the cracks. Your feedback definitely helps find the outliers.
- Benjamin Golub
oh we can also search other twitter users' friends, nice.
- Eren Emre Kanal
The only slight issue, which is not a big deal, is when people add other people's Twitter feeds to their FriendFeed account. In the search I got results for people who have added other people's Twitter feed to their FF account instead of the actual owners of the Twitter accounts I am following. I do this with imaginary friends. They must not know what imaginary friends are for.
- Rolf Schewe
This is cool! But noticing some bugs too. I.e. twitter/techcrunch goes to john rocker etc.
- jho
Jauder: In that case it is likely because http://friendfeed.com/techcru... doesn't have @techcrunch added as a service. Once it is added we should recommend the correct FriendFeed account.
- Benjamin Golub
No worries, I scanned the list manually and it added fine. I would suggest giving the ability to add to more than one list though. I created a new list called Twitter but would the people I just added be added to the home feed too?
- jho
Hmm. It found 3 twitter friends for me, and none of the corresponding FF users are correct. Weird. [looks again] Oh, I get it...none of them are actually on FF, it's just that other people have imported their twitter accounts. Ugh.
- Ken Sheppardson
any chance we can get imaginary friends created automatically for twitter friends that are not using friendfeed?
- berkay
nice thanks ken - was wanting something that went FF to Twitter as well
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Oops. Smooth. Overwhelming. Added 62 & sent 8 requests. Simply good. Waiting for the big news wave now :)
- Markus Merz
this would really rock if you could do it for Flickr as well. It would also be interesting if FF was smart enough to delete imaginary friends with the real ones as they show up at FF.
- Thomas Hawk
Given I can put in any user ID, I can pull in any followers on Twitter, period. Shouldn't this tie in to the account you have registered?
- Louis Gray
It prepopulates with the account you have registered, but we let you type in any account because the info is available on Twitter, and you may have a Twitter account that you have chosen not to connect to FriendFeed.
- Bret Taylor
wasnt there some tool for that... or maybe that was the other way around - intreresting for sure. However, actually think I know my friendfeed people better than them on Twitter, so I´ll see
- Peter Efland
Anyway you can add Facebook support? Also other blog networks (like LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress and TypePad).
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
That's what you get for having thousands of followers.
- Richard A.
That worked *really* well. Hmm, maybe I'll just unsub those folks on Twitter as long as they are bringing their feed in here. Sorry, Twitter.
- Laura Norvig
Oh, I don't typically dig that deep. Wouldn't that require TweetDeck or using Twitter search? You're right, though, if I happen to be on Twitter and someone asks an interesting question, sometimes it's nice to see the replies of the people I *do* follow.
- Laura Norvig
Thanks for the great feedback everyone! We just pushed some fixes that should make our recommendations even more accurate based on your feedback.
- Benjamin Golub