If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
Since Friendfeed is again not importing twitter (it was working for a while), I created a Yahoo Pipe that grabs it. Go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/thwarte... and enter your twitter username, then run it. Add the link for the "Get an RSS" to your Friendfeed imports as a Custom RSS/Atom.
I see the content that shows up in the RSS on your FF page. It seems FF inserts them into the stream with the date they occurred.
- Andy Bakun
Fantastic info just try it and works like a charm...really appreciate it Andy
- Greg Wilson
I'm considering modifying it to include favorites also.
- Andy Bakun
Jesus, Twitter is such shit. I modified this to remove the leading username from the entries, and I went to save it and it refuses to load any content from twitter now. I can only assume it will start working. Maybe it's Yahoo that's at fault. But since FF also can't seem to load directly from twitter, and the history I've had with twitter in general, I (in)tend to (continue to) blame twitter for this crap.
- Andy Bakun
A simple extension for Chrome I just made. / Pequeña extensión que acabo de hacer. / Basically the same ol' bookmarklet wrapped in a distinctive ff button. Check it out: https://chrome.google.com/extensi...
Works fine on Mac OS X 5.0.335 dev channel release. It looks like extensions are disabled on the extensions website and on Chrome internal pages, but if you go to like http://google.com the bookmarklet pops up just fine. You can try to remove the %20 in the action_url string, but removing it didn't seem to affect my usage either way.
- Mark Trapp
Actually, it seems to work, just wasn't working on the link to the extension. Seems to work fine on other pages though so I think we're good.
- Jesse Stay
I really like the small scrolling bar they styled there. Sweet.
- Friendfeed's Francisco
If you could combine FFcheck with the bookmarklet, that would be very useful
- Shey
and friendfeedTranslate - if someone does this, I suggest using kynetx to do it. It will give you one jquery-based language to write extensions with one code base across most browsers: http://kynetx.com
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, are you an advisor to kynetx (I see they're based in Lehi)? Do you know what their business model is - have they stated anything as such publicly. It certainly looks interesting.
- Micah
Micah, I am not an advisor, nor do I have any vested interest. I just really like what they're doing. Their business model is in building custom apps for brands interested, or in consulting. I'm not sure what other types of deals they do. Their developer platform is free though. You can ask @windley or @fulling on Twitter though and I'm sure they can answer more detailed questions than I'm aware.
- Jesse Stay
Of note, @windley wrote the Digital Identity book for O'Reilly, and has a very strong identity background. I fully expect them to go full force into the identity realm with what they're doing. Imagine completely customized context (such as this extension, but even more), through extensions, action cards, and bookmarklets, across all browsers.
- Jesse Stay
@Shey do you have a link to ffcheck? never heard of it. EDIT: never mind. http://ffcheck.com ..I think it's doable. ;-) as for ff translate ...
- Friendfeed's Francisco
what seems to be the issues?, it does work fine in 5.0.375.99 (Build oficial 51029) beta and 6.0 dev channel (windows 7)
- Friendfeed's Francisco
it's not working for me, too. can we solve this problem?
- ToMtOm
Yeah, seems to be broken in the current stable version. Clicking the button doesn't do anything. :( I guess it's back to the regular bookmarklet for the time being.
- Curdy G
I've been checking it for the past week or so and it only seems to be broken in old installs of chrome. new installs are ok. I dunno what could be causing this. :P
- Friendfeed's Francisco
doesn't work any more: chrome 15.0.874.121 on OS X
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
sorry, eugene I've been having trouble to make it work on all installs. are you testing it outside of the chrome extension gallery as well? If you or anyone could help reviewing the background page code, here it is: http://tinypaste.com/6081b
- Friendfeed's Francisco
"A leading Nigerian comic actor arrested on suspicion of ingesting drugs to smuggle to Europe was on Friday freed on bail after 25 closely monitored bowel movements produced nothing suspicious."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read in part, adding that Jobs will be remembered both for the life-changing products he created and for the fact that he was able to sit down, think clearly, and execute his ideas—attributes he shared with no other U.S. citizen."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
An Apple IIe for me. I used that computer until 1993.
- Eric
Apple ][+ at home when I was in elementary. O the memories.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I can't say I built my first site on a Mac, but I built my first GOOD site on my Performa 6300 CD. 17 years later, if I have a choice, I use a Mac. Steve was a role model and vicariously, a mentor. I'm grateful for his contributions to technology and his passion for excellence in every aspect of computing.
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
A thumb drive that plugs in to USB on one end, and has an open USB plug on the other, so it doesn't take up a USB port.
- Kevin Fox
Ah... Yep. Not a bad idea. I'm guessing not enough use case?
- SAM
I thought it was swallowable. Couldn't figure out the purpose - maybe like one of them video things you poop out after they go through your system.
- SteVe C
1. powerful search features 2. easy sharing of information 3. easy creation and editing of comments 4. support for complex conversations 5. instant creation of specialized groups 6. integration with other social media services 6. spacious, clean and uncluttered 7. slick and quick to the max
- Sean McBride
No need to bug your friends to join or add their services to Friendfeed if you only want to get update of their activities on the web. No other service seems to offer that ability; they enjoy having users as their MLM agents to get more users.
- Natsuki Seika
Other sites lock you in, Friendfeed easily supports aggregating activity from around the internet. My answer on quora still applies: http://www.quora.com/FriendF...
- Andy Bakun
"Feathers believed to be from dinosaurs have been found beautifully preserved in Alberta amber. The primitive, hair-like feathers known as protofeathers likely belonged to theropods — dinosaurs similar to tiny Tyrannosaurus rexes — that roamed the swampy forests of Alberta 80 million years ago, said Alexander P. Wolfe, a University of Alberta earth sciences professor who co-authored the research published Thursday in Science."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
Story says, "'Protofeathers aren't known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,' he said." Um. I hope they have better evidence than that.
- Stephen Mack
"Once your bison becomes relaxed from the mayo-lard-juice massage, you can begin assembling your crossbow for the next step."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Complete protein is satiating. Our bodies absolutely require complete protein—but they also have a limited capacity to process protein in excess of our requirement. This shows up as what’s called “protein leverage”: people tend to consume food until they’ve ingested about 360 calories worth of complete protein. All other things being equal, if we eat foods high in protein, we consume less calories, and if we eat foods low in protein, we consume more. Therefore, if we want to sell an addictive and non-satiating food, we should keep it very low in protein (e.g. candy, cookies, potato chips). If it does contain protein, that protein should be incomplete—deficient in at least one essential amino acid—since the limiting factor for protein utilization is the least abundant essential amino acid. Guess what? Corn and wheat, the foundation of chips, crackers, cookies, and over 90% of the breakfast aisle, are both deficient in lysine. And both zein (corn protein) and gluten (wheat protein) are...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"Here’s a startling experiment: rats prefer saccharine and sugar to intravenous cocaine, even after previously becoming addicted to cocaine."
- Gabe
Like I keep telling people, this is the man who redefined the entire Jekyll and Hyde mythos in six episodes; imagine what he'll do with a Time Lord or three, :)
- Steven Perez
"Increasingly, we live in a world defined by flat networks. Folks like Clay Shirky, Ben Hammersley, and others have observed in great detail how the design patterns of the internet are challenging and changing the landscape of human civilization. So many of our institutions have been built as hierarchical pyramids designed to exert the maximum degree of control over their domains. These top-down management structures have come to define business, government, the military, medicine, education, the family, and knowledge itself. Leaders rise to the top as centralized governors dictating down the chain how things should be, while workers march in step towards execution of their appointed tasks. Such structures were modeled after the clockworks & steam engines of classical mechanics, designed to be precise, rigid, and durable, capable of lasting hundreds of years. These structures informed the defining metaphors of our entire industrialized society."
- Wildcat
from Bookmarklet
Two points: A) How did Bing get the search term? And B) Google narrowed a search down hundreds of billions of pages into ten links. The user narrowed it down from ten to one. Does Bing deserve to /copy/ the billions to one reduction (unattributed!), just because a IE user was involved?
- DeWitt Clinton
only to me it seems SO wrong that Google decided to manually modify its serps?
- simone righini
So, Bing is using query/click data on Google as a signal in it's own algorithm. But we have no idea the weight that Bing is attributing to that input, right?. So for queries where there is virtually no other signal data, that input becomes much stronger. So for these types of Googlewhack queries it's easy to show that Bing is using the Google query/click data as a signal. But as Matt...
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- AJ Kohn
Remember the meta-search engines that would return results from all sites? (e.g. http://metasearch.com/) So clearly it's not illegal to use search results from another site. Metasearch makes it explicit that they do so, but maybe all this is about is for Bing to acknowledge to what degree other search engines like Google are incorporated in Bing's results.
- Stephen Mack
It's interesting. I went to my Google Web History for one of my accounts (that I keep it on for) and tested whether Bing queries would be surfaced in that Web History. The answer? Yes. So, we know that Google used Web History to personalize search. My question is whether they use any of the query and click data from other search engines as part of that Web History personalization.
- AJ Kohn
The kicker is the verbiage that still exists there: "We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience." Umm, new? Not so much...
- Nathan Chase
INORITE? There are some threads I like to bump once or twice a year, and now they're lost to the sands of time.
- Tinfoil 2.0
It used to be spotty, now search never works.
- Mike Chelen
Thanks for finding this again, Mike. I was going to bump it later.
- Alex Scrivener
One thing I don't understand is that instead of even trying to search, it just seems like it goes straight to "Service Unavailable." I think it's because, if search *did* work, Friendfeed would be too perfect.
- Laura Norvig
My guess is that they have search turned off completely.
- Akiva
Back in the Golden Age, it was perfect.
- Alex Scrivener
Back in the Golden Age, FriendFeed had active developers and fewer photos of cats.
- Akiva
I haven't even tried friendfeed search anymore, its too frustrating. Previously one of its greatest features, search has hit a brick wall.
- JCunwired
...and it STILL says "Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks."
- Nathan Chase
Recently: the "search" had many problems ... The "like" & "comment" have problems too ... So long that no new features have been added ....And now! No one is to respond! what are you doing admins?
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