Looks like he fixed Google Reader shared items bug.. plus there's a few nice admin additions now. And there's upgrade instructions on the wiki now http://code.google.com/p/sweet... - Haggis (Sean)
Upgraded while tweaking some single pages. So far it looks ok. I like that he lists the feeds on the right side of the admin page now. - Bwana McCall
A friend just had an idea of using this software to pull other RSS feeds in, sort of your own personal "Digg" page from sites around the net. Interesting idea. - Haggis (Sean)
i downloaded 1.02 - 1.06 yesterday and never unzipped them. I have no clue how to append them to my WP blog. Do I have to make a subdomain? And if I do, will this even work? Or am I missing something really obvious? - faboo mama
I still can't get it to accept my GReader shared link.. oh well. - ChaCha Fance
Mine worked when I grabbed the RSS feed link, not the shared "page" - Haggis (Sean)
“Hi all, I'm Daniel from Disqus. We're eager to participate and support the Sweetcron community with Disqus. Please comment here or email us at team@disqus.com. I'll be following this. Cheers!”
Hi Daniel. I've added discqus to my site items, but interested to know how to get the number of comments listed underneath each item on the index page. Yongfook's done it on his site, but I'd rather not bother him - chap's a bit busy. http://www.tombeardshaw.com - Tom Beardshaw
Why can't I figure out the basics of installing Disqus on SweetCron? I think I need more coffee - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
@Rasheen: system/application/views/themes/sandbox/single.php if you just want the comments to work - Michael J Cohen
if you want the comment counts to work on the main page you also need to: edit system/application/views/themes/sandbox/_activity_feed.php and put #disqus_thread at the end of the comment URL, and edit system/application/views/themes/sandbox/_footer.php to put the javascript there - Michael J Cohen
Thanks, Daniel. Installed without any issues. We'll post up problems if the show. :-) - Chris Baskind
Daniel, take a look at mine in Firefox (fine in IE) http://lifestream.virtuallin.c... - I'm getting multiple 0 Comments links for each item. I prolly mucked something up somewhere. <grin> - Cheryl Allin
@Michael maybe you add information to install page for sweetcron? I added disqus but couldnt solve comment count issue. - Onder Eren
I'd also like to see Disqus comments to be treated as comments, which by implementing Louis suggestion in point 2, will make more sense i guess. Comments are comments, posts are posts. In case there will be no link to which the comment is added, it could work like posting a link with the Disqus comment under. Btw, @Robert, you don't have Disqus hooked up in FF ;) - Tibor Holoda
Excellent post Louis. You are pretty much spot on with those 10 suggestions. - Mike Fruchter
Tibor: I don't like Disqus pulling in comments here. Often I want different communities to remain separate. I'll manually pull in comments or point out when I've made comments that FriendFeeder's should be aware of. Like I did here. - Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is a lifestream aggregator and I use it to aggregate all my various 'outputs'. Disqus comments are just one category of my 'outputs'. Therefore, Disqus comments are perfectly valid and *do* belong in my FriendFeed stream The fact, that such comments may be out of context to people bending FF into a Social Media Forum is an unfortunate consequence. - Andy C
11. add user definable font size. the new beta makes me squint :) - h1ro
#9! I hide things liberally and it does bug me, when I click on page 2, I'm seeing page 1 all over again. - Yolanda
Great suggestions Louis,
I would also add:
The Ability to Hide Specific RSS Feeds and
Search All Entries by URL - Shey
and go-faster stripes, a background of babes in bikinis, and intermittant embedded hilarious fart noises. - john conroy
I have to so that FF has been growing well with the current feature set. Like all areas of activity contraints can sometimes be helpful. FF needs to innovate itself, rather than copy straight from Twitter (DM's), Facebook (profiles) etc. 2,4,10 are most important. The issue here is not so much what features we want as how can FF grow into a mature platform. - Roberto Bonini
Robert: I see your point, but i still think it would be a good thing to handle Disqus comments as comments, not as posts. User decides, if he wants them appear in his FF stream or not - like in your case. - Tibor Holoda
Great List Louis! #2 is my favorite one. - Peter Hoffmann
Tibor, I agree with you (Robert, when are you going to enable Disqus on your blog?). For the blog owner it's much easier to consolidate into one place if they can tie your comments straight to the FriendFeed post itself instead of an entirely new post. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
One more suggestion - tagging. I want to be able to tag individuals, both in my posts, *and* my comments if I'm talking about them or something they might be interested in. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Excellent list. My top priority though, isn't on there - (as per Shey) renaming or separating "Blog" posts, so individuals can hide your blog vs. another "blog" .. I'd also like it easier to determine which services I am/am not showing per individual. Just give me some enable/disable checkboxes on the users page. Strands did this right. - Tim Hoeck
Great suggestions Louis. One clarification on #4 -- most people never see this "default" list because they were either invited by another user, or they import friends from email or facebook. The recommendations are then based entirely on who their other friends are, and will make a lot more sense. - Paul Buchheit
Indeed some good suggestions. My guess is that the reason that #2 (duplicates) has not been implemented yet, is that it is very tricky to do right. If they do manage to implement it and get it right, I will be very impressed. I would not be too surprised though, since Friendfeed has some really sharp people working there. - Robert Felty
Excellent List and some good suggestions in comments as well. I really would like to see 2,3,5,6, & 10. The share on FF bookmarklet should be more like Tumblr's. I would also like to be able to filter my feed to prevent duplicates. I would like to cross post my tumblr to my main blog and twitter but in doing so I create more noise for my FF stream. If I could filter out posts from blog or twitter that started with "XYZ" then I could cross post freely without worrying about FF noise. - tsudohnimh
@Paul, thanks for the comment. I did test by signing up to just one individual, as if they had invited me, and by changing the one person I subscribed to, the recommended friends did change. That said, if you check out recommended friends in Facebook, there's the option to "X" out people you don't want and provide more. Plaxo also does this well. - Louis Gray
Re: #1 and #8 I would like to see profile information that I can search, so I can find FF folks who are geographically near me or who are in my profession or who share a common interest with me. Great post - thanks! - Courtney McGough
Pownce should worry about #10. FF will soon have to worry about cannibalizing its data suppliers, and what that means for ongoing openness. #! & #2 are the big ones with me, and I just don't see why FF enabled fake followers. - Logical Extremes
being 1st or 2nd is all that matters in that particular field.... 3rd placings and below would normally whither away - Mark L via twhirl
I am really getting confused. I just commented on the post. Now I see the comments here as posts. Totally agree with Tibor, messing posts together with comments, be it from Disqus or anywhere else, does not increase transparency. - Jan Horna
#7 - want to make sure i understand that concept of "fake follow" - home feed contains all friends by default & you can then add them to a list/grouping to subdivide them for easier readability - to remove them from the home feed you have to actually de-select them when you add them to a list and then never go to that list again - is that what "fake follow" is - if so, way to much work for no return and only lame*ss self absorbed status mongers will be doing it - imho of course :) - mike "glemak" dunn
#5 - My thought would be to make an invitation-only private room. Wouldn't this solve the partial-distribution problem? - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, it could, and some do, but that's a room, and not a feed. Unless the room data permeates the feed, it could get missed. - Louis Gray
I like your list. One other feature I'd like to see is to filter by service in whatever view I am in. - Jeff P. Henderson
The absolute killer feature for me would be, if FF will recognize languages of the posts, or at least to differentiate between english vs. non-english and allow filtering. Would that even be possible or did my brain just farted? :) - Tibor Holoda
(sorry for cross posting) Firstly, I'd like to add to Louis' list the capability to search rooms and then to search inside rooms. Secondly, I must confess that support for a basic profile would be useful. But as always I'd encourage the reuse of data (so importing it from whatever source the user decides). DMs might be usefull, but I haven't felt the need for them so far. - Alex Popescu
I usually don't like to speak about things that are not ready, but this post was catchy. I currently have a prototype that deals with de-duping the resource links. I haven't looked into de-duping pure messages, but my gut feeling is that this might be even easier. I hope to find the time to deploy this app sometime soon. - Alex Popescu
About private messaging: at first I thought this was a silly idea for ff, until I realized that the private messages could just show up where ff items normally show up, e.g. private comments. - j1m
Finally transform from a military superpower to an economic superpower by diverting military investments to technology and r&d and school construction and education investments. - Jason Goldberg
Hey, Grizzled Librarian, what'd Canada ever do to you? - Cecily Walker
I'd have to say get rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Too many brilliant servicemen and women have been kicked out for stupid stuff (not to mention the millions spent on persecuting people who actually *want* to be in the military). - Cecily Walker
Work with congress on Net Neutrality and not cross-dressed partially aborted Net Neutrality like congress is fond of doing to important policies. - Geoff Schultz
Expose -> what really happened to 9/11 and why/how oil increased over the last 8 years - AJ Batac
arrest members of the bush administration for treason & crimes -- rumsfeld, wolfowitz, cheney, rice, perle, rove, etc... - Cee Bee
Inspire the people in our country to get off their ass and contribute to something productive and positive. Also, build economic stability unmatched by any other country in the world. Thank you; good day, sir. - Stagekid
Insurance for everyone, and no one has to pay. Or rather, do away with insurance and how about just free healthcare? How about we stop being a nation that profits off of the sick instead of trying to heal? - Haggis (Sean)
If you made health care free no one would work in the industry. No companies would produce equipment, talented people would go to other fields or countries and the whole system would fail. I mean it would be awesome if it was possible but I just dont see how. Then again thats why I am not nominated for President. - Geoff Schultz
Eh I was mostly talking about the dreaded "Government Healthcare".. it works in so many other countries, yet as advanced as we are we still pay out the roof for crappy insurance and people still go untreated. - Haggis (Sean)
Increase the US's value (including the dollar) in the international community, at least in part by ending torture (or whatever you want to call it) and strengthening what we offer vs. what we consume. - Clare Dibble
Brent - no one I've ever asked from a country with socialized medicine has had anything bad to say about it. And I've asked a lot of folks. Not a scientific survey, but it certainly doesn't seem as horrible as a lot of people would like you to think. - Tad - just Tad
Completely eliminate our dependence on energy from any other nation. This would solve a plethora of other problems. At that point, we would have very little interest in controlling what goes on in the middle east. Education and health care are two other pressing problems that need attention. - Jeff P. Henderson
@Haggis, A noble idea, but SOMEONE has to pay for all of the 'free' stuff the government gives away. Any suggestions on how to pay for 'free healthcare' for everyone in the US? - Jeff P. Henderson
Do whatever they can to achieve the goal of some sort of affordable health care. It hurts to hear Mom always have to scream at the insurance company that they'll get their money when they can. We have to keep the house payments on time, and we never asked for Dad to get lung cancer. :( - ::Kristen::
make America proud to be America again. - Hayk Hakobyan
Hmm.. how about divert some of that excessive military funding to maybe.. I dunno.. help people? I'm no financial consultant. I just know the system we have DOESN'T work, and the insurance companies are just getting richer why we all suffer painfully. Kristen's situation (and many others) are exactly why it's so important something is done. - Haggis (Sean)
I have a question, and I'm not trying to be a troll here, so constructive answers please. Why is it that everyone in the US seems to believe they have some sort of birth right to free or cheap health care? Why do we expect insurance companies to collect a reasonable fee and then hand out all we can eat? Health care is unfortunately a business like any other and must operate within a budget and return a profit. We don't expect GM to give everyone a free car do we? - Jeff P. Henderson
@Jeff Because... it's not a business, it's a basic human right. Here's the page. Get on the page. - (teh)Kenny
Exactly, Haggis. Stop giving so much money to Iraq, tell the Iraqis to STEP THE HELL UP AND DO SOMETHING FOR THEMSELVES?!?!?!, and give some of that money to the Katrina victims who are still living in FEMA trailers ... that is, if they haven't been kicked out of them yet. It's time for America to do something for Americans and stop sticking our noses in other peoples' business. I'm all about having allies, but wake up, Washington (aka Bush): True world peace is impossible and is never going to happen. - ::Kristen::
@Jeff I think the fact that insurance/healthcare *IS* a business is the problem in itself. Why should the health of the citizens be relegated to some desk clerk with no attachment to the problem? Why does a complete stranger get to tell anyone that "No, you can't have this operation to ease your pain/save your life." These are questions that need to be addressed, future president or not. - Haggis (Sean)
Stop the global climate catastrophe. And give away free doughnuts. - Eric
@tehkenny, Why is health care a basic human right? Unfortunately health care is a business. I doubt we will ever be able to change that if we want quality care. So someone has to pay for it. - Jeff P. Henderson
@Haggis, You are correct, since health insurance is a business, we are at the mercy of those who control the budget, which sucks. Unfortunately if you remove the business aspect from anything, health care included, you will no longer find people and companies who will be interested in providing care, medicine, medical equipment, etc. We DO desperately need health care reform in this country. Removing the bureaucracy and red tape in the present system that wastes money would be a great start. Hopefully our next administration will address this issue. - Jeff P. Henderson
Back to my original question, why do we EXPECT a for profit insurance company to pay for our medical care without limit? If we are to reform the system we must pursue other models. Other options are for the government to mandate that health care / insurance be run as a not for profit. Or for the government to take complete control of it. Or to pay for care out of our own pockets. Each of these solutions has it's downside. Unfortunately health insurance and litigation has driven up prices so high that 99+% of the population would not be able to pay for it out of their own pocket as we did ~60 years ago before medical insurance was common place. This dilemma is why we have not, so far, had any decent reform. - Jeff P. Henderson
world peace.. or is that more suited to a beauty miss? - Pascal
@Pascal, world peace? idealist, arent we? - Hayk Hakobyan
cynical and sarcastic realist more like it... with a bit of dreamer on the side - Pascal
right! world peace was for inspiration of Beatles and alike. Back to the topic, I I know many Americans who are ashamed of being American. The prime objective of their new pres would be to restore confidence in the government and to bring pride to their people. - Hayk Hakobyan
Fair trials for the Cheney war cabal. Though w. was too stoopid to be of any real use to Darth Cheney, he's in, too, for other colossal failures, not least subverting the Constitution, and codifying torture. O frabjous day! - Ayşe E.
It almost made me wait too but I decided to upgrade anyway & it wasn't so bad. - ChaCha Fance
There are probably a number of extensions available for FF3 that offer the same functionality as the ones you have. Also, I ran into this issue where extensions actually have a version that works for FF3, but it doesn't show up as an update for the version that works on FF2. - Chieze Okoye
yes! lolol. am i the only one who hears it? - Liz Burr
Yeah, a bit of an accent. Don't worry - mine is thicker! - Tad - just Tad
The quality looks awesome. Video posts are so much better than actually reading. - Andrew Trinh
Dude... It's an accent. I'm from the southern US and you don't sound like us so, from an American point of view, you have an accent. It's cool though. I mean really cool. - Anthony K Valley
never really noticed Shey's accent... but then again it was 20 by the time I realized my Dad has a Jamaican accent -- apparently is so thick other Jamaicans think he just came to Canada (he's been here 45 years!). Gonna listen hard for Shey's so-called accent... - Jasmin Smith
i can definitely hear the slight caribbean X canadian accent collabo - Cee Bee
very slight accent Shay, have to say that I think mine is a bit thicker than yours....used to always want to lose my accent, but as I got older now proud to have said accent. - Joel Martinez
You did it !!! Still trying to decide whether to p or vcast .... What did you get?? (Edit) ... Yeah I know, I should have watched it first. Very cool New York accent :) - Charlie Anzman
shey i just got this same cam last night - great recommendation. it is sweet! - Morgan
