http://www.joedawsons.com/feed... I have a lot of images of my family adventures which get uploaded so I wouldn't subscribe if you don't want that fed into GReader! - Joe Dawson
This is my going to bed mark so I know where to start adding feeds in the morning. keep em coming, and anyone reading this, feel free to add as many people as you like - Duncan Riley
"No, that's the thing. In the in-page flash it plays the whole songs fine, but in the desktop app it only plays the 30 sec samples. I prefer to play in the app because I don't accidentally navigate away in the middle of a song :)" - Glenn Slaven
"My playlist is now playing when I set the settings to play in the external app, but it's only playing the 30sec samples, not the whole songs" - Glenn Slaven
“Want to know why the future of FriendFeed is a search engine? Try this search. http://friendfeed.com/search?q... I get more great blog post ideas and find more valuable information from this search than anyplace else on the web today.”
and just you wait until FF begins introducing a "relevancy" filter for searches that sort by "interestingness" (i.e. comments, likes, etc.). Once they come out with their ranking algorithm which correlates time/immediacy with rank (comments/likes) and once more content begins to pool here they will have a search engine more powerful than Google. This is powerful search stuff. - Thomas Hawk
As long as enough people are talking and blogging about photography, it works. Any archivists on FF, or records managers on FF? - David Kemper
That's the thing David. Google will still excel at obscure search. But if you want to see interesting things about Photography or the iPhone or Obama or alcohol or your favorite company or more general search, social filtering will provide a superior experience to Google or Yahoo or MSFT. It's amazing how good search is now at FF and they *are not even using the social metadata yet!* Just you wait until they let their algorithm loose on the world for that. - Thomas Hawk
No doubt FF is going to be a very useful and fruitful search engine. However they still need to improve the speed of indexing. Search results are far behind the latest entries. - atzmon
Now maybe MSFT is actually watching FF. But I don't get the sense that they are. Or Yahoo. But it blows me away that MSFT would pay $100 million for Powerset, a company's whose search technology I've tried and sucks, while ignoring the power in search that is FF. Filtering search by what the general population likes and even more by what your social circle likes is the future of search. - Thomas Hawk
atzmon, that will come in time. What we have today is proof of concept. Everything else is just time. Why does Flickr have the best image search on the internet today? Because of social meta data and ranking. Why is it that Yahoo could never capitalize on this for web search when they had a 3 year head start on everyone else with delicious, flickr, upcoming. etc? - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I ahve began using FF search as the main Searchlet. google is so web1.0 kindish. My only pain point is that FF does not yeild results for term that is part of the comment content. It is only taking main URI /txt - Peter Dawson
atzmon - i haven't found that to be the case - my searches are returning results that have threads minutes old - ff is a great example of social grid search & how its starting to replace traditional search imho - nice thread thomas :) - mike "glemak" dunn
think about this. As *good* as search is today at FF. they have not even released their "relevancy" feature yet which coordinates rank (comments/likes) with most recent. It will be even more powerful once they do this and I bet that they are working on this right now. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, one of the first things that caught my attention about FF in the first place was its potential in the search area. I'm willing to give them all the time they need because I'm sure it's going to pay off for me as a user. While we're on the subject, they do have a few basic features to implement, like a bit of morphology. Try searching for 'tactic' and 'tactics', compare the results you get. - atzmon
I agree with Thomas. The potential is certainly there. But to be truly useful, it needs a much wider range of users. The interests currently represented here are relatively narrow. - Dan Kaplan
Agree, though not sure if they want to be seen as a search engine. - tomio geron
Love Thomas Hawk's remarks about relevancy and interestingness search algorithms, and concur with Dan Kaplan about the need for a much larger user base to make the search results truly worthwhile. - Sean McBride
tomio, they may not yet. In the same way that I'm sure Flickr didn't want to be seen as a "search engine" either. FF has to first and foremost present itself as a community and as a useful social aggregation tool. Search is the byproduct -- but search is where monetization takes place most powerfully. Dan, depth of content will come with time. Same as what happened with Flickr. - Thomas Hawk
Pretty soon, Friendfeed will even be able to cook your eggs and butter your toast. - Shawn Farner
Good point Shawn and a good reminder that BREAKFAST IS FOR WINNERS!!! - Thomas Hawk
Social search is clearly an important monetization opportunity for any aggregator - John McCrea
I'm tremendously amused that the first thing when I do the search is "Why I think Thomas Hawk is a Great Photographer" - David Thomas
““So TechCrunch & Gawker have their own Digg armies, why don't we? We should start a FriendFeed Digg army. Clearly I have no idea about its purpose, but I thought I'd suggest it on a whim.””
"It's possible. Easiest way to check that is to put the plugin's tag into the default template and switch back to the default template for a second & see if it displays" - Glenn Slaven
"I'm afraid it's mootools that's conflicting. I've just checked in an update to make the plugin play nice with Jquery (i'm using prototype), mootools is next on my list. Sorry, I really wish these libraries all kept off each others toes. It makes this kind of stuff difficult!" - Glenn Slaven
Dont u think its a too much of mashup - trying to do a lot of thing at the same time. As they say too many cooks spoils the broth - Arjun
so what is going to be better? twitter failed people because it failed to be a non censored medium. how is YouAre going to be different? - Noah David Simon
So Many new services in the last few weeks, too many. - jjprojects
"Ok, I've been testing this app on every blog I can & I get the "Error parsing response XML" message on every one, whether it's got the FF plugin installed or not. I disabled & deleted the plugin completely & I still got the error message.
I cracked out Fiddler which inspects tcp/ip traffic & had a look at what the server is sending back & it looks fine, the XML is all well-formed.
Using the ATOM format rather than the MetaWeblogAPI on the server settings, I can log in but I can't then post, gives me a "Empty post URL" error. However I may be doing something wrong, I'm not familiar with the application.
I'm afraid I can't replicate the problem, or rather, I can't make the problem go away when I remove the FriendFeed plugin. Were you using the MetaWeblog API on the server settings form?" - Glenn Slaven
“it'd be nice to flag a thread you find interesting to be able to track it - today i open it via more/link to this entry as a new tab but that's cumbersome and doesn't scale well when you have more than a few threads of interest”
not using greasemonkey & yes like or comment will get it into your pseudo saved flow but its still the flow - what i'm talking about is a flag that doesn't let it get lost in the flow - ff can be really fast at times - this would allow for a way to find an interesting thread again w/out back scanning the flow - mike "glemak" dunn
@glemak: I use a separate non-shared-on-FF private delicious account for that. But I'd love if I could do the same with a built-in FF feature. - Dread Pirate PJ via NoiseRiver
don't do greasmonkey but looks like a good script steve - should be core to ff at some point i'd imagine - mike "glemak" dunn
Question about the script: I'm assuming it only saves stuff on a single browser; so saved stuff won't migrate from work to home. Is this true? - James Williams (willia4)
Photoshopped !! jus save the jpeg.. explode in any image s/w and see the white space between the dark force and the white force (?) . :)- - Peter Dawson
Seven months in...I'm still doing that. - Chris Nixon
And the sense of relief when you realize it was just the TV...priceless. - Hutch Carpenter
TVs are scary, I turned them off and now I enjoy life - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I've done that a few times with door knocks and door bells on TV. It's amazing how real the surround sound from the living room sounds when I'm up in my office. - Jeff P. Henderson
You're such a good dad - I hear the baby cry and I wait for my wife to go get him, then if nothing, I go ;-) - Jesse Stay
If this had been me, while wandering back my other half would have said "so you don't know the sound of ours from some random kid on the television?" :) - Jonathan Beckett
Been there, done that. And in India it can be your neighbors baby! - Muthu Ramadoss
"What happens? It shouldn't be doing that, since I use Windows Live Writer to post to my site with no issues. What's the error you're seeing?" - Glenn Slaven
I hate the echos, I manually prune myself - sean percival
Glenn - My use of Twitter has dropped off to the point where it was a tweet or two every few days, and now my friendfeed posts are syndicated on Twitter, so it was just getting redundant. I'm now officially a Twitter poser, I guess. I should probably stop syndicating over there as well - J. Phil
very good decision! also did that some time ago... - Dieter Schwarz
have thought about doing this myself - (jeff)isageek
mine stopped working sooo that happened *naturally* hehehe! - Susan Beebe
wow, its like an official break up. hardcore. - Chris Hollander
"Failwhale, you know I will always love you. But I am not IN LOVE with you! Please understand..." - J. Phil
I kind of wish I could splice someone's tweets into their Friendfeed stream just for my viewing, the same way I create imaginary friends. there are a couple people who don't import tweets but whose tweets I'd like to see in their feed anyhow. - nathan
How are you pushing your FF posts to Twitter? - John
oh yeah, I was going to ask the same thing as John. Are you using Twitterfeed? They've been awfully unreliable for me lately - nathan
Well, now I'll have to create you as an imaginary friend as well and add your Tweets to it. :) - David Cook
Sorry nathan and David. I've actually stopped syndicating my ff over there, and most people have tweets hidden over here, so I can re-add twitter syndication if you like. It will be pretty spotty though, I do days between tweets sometimes. - J. Phil
don't do it for my sake... I was just sort of musing, on principle, that it would be interesting, as a Friendfeed feature, to be able to splice new feeds into your friends identities (privately, for your own viewing). For example some folks don't import their del.icio.us posts, but if I really want to see them, wouldn't it be handy if I could just tell Friendfeed their del.icio.us username and see their posts on my friends page spliced in with the rest of their feed. - nathan
Ok, sorry for the wishy-washiness, but I did re-add my twitter feed here in FF. But I stopped syndicating everything on twitter, since I don't use it much it felt like I was just advertising over there. So just tweets from me from now on (on Twitter). - J. Phil
I wish more people would use the expression "wishy-washiness" - nathan
Nothing wrong with disconnecting your Twitter feed. I've only come to use my Twitter when I am not at a computer and, I need to update something via the mobile. I do have Twitter followers who are not FriendFeed users so, it's become almost like having two separate services instead of one integrated service. - The Geek Media
