Är det något jag har svårt för när det gäller min egen digitala närvaro, så är det att bli för personlig. Jag skulle vilja, men jag håller tillbaka, för säkerhets skull. Men när jag läser om Jeff Jarvis och cancern så... det är stort och gripande, fast vi inte känner varandra. Jag har överhuvudtaget funderat en del på detta. En vän berättade på FB om en hemsk sak som inträffat i hennes familj. Och jag förstår att hon väljer att berätta - varför skulle hon bära på detta själv? alternativet vore ju att i det digitala livet låtsas som ingenting, vilket inte är helt lätt för oss som har flätat ihop det digitala och det analoga till den grad att vi inte vet var gränserna går. Med det vill jag bara uttrycka all min värme och min respekt till dem som vågar vara sig själva i denna ibland grymma och kalla värld. vi måste tro att värmen tränger undan kylan till slut.
- Jerry Silfwer
fan bloody tastic! So we can post here and Twitterers can comment away without any complaints! The only think you need to try and do is bring in comments (about a share) from twitter into here! :)
- Zee.
This is great...should help new users quite a bit.
- Mark Krynsky
OK, I admit I'm dense. As an existing user will this help me find the folks I follow on Twitter?
- Laura Norvig
Cool, is it possible we could have the ability to bulk import or non-FF Twitter friends as private feeds so we can track them in FF? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Laura, existing FriendFeed users should just go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... and click on the Twittter (and Facebook and Google) icons to find their friends. Kol, not yet, but I'm hoping to add something like that soon (improved imaginary friends).
- Paul Buchheit
Thx, Paul - guess I haven't been to that page since the launch. btw, I'm definitely coming around to the new friendfeed (colors notwithstanding).
- Laura Norvig
Great to see the standards working -OAuth fro Gogole and Twitter login on Friendfeed
- Kevin Marks
That's a great tool, Paul! Found a few from Twitter and Facebook I didn't realise were on FF...:)
- WorldofHiglet
Oh man, that is suh-weet. Works really well.
- Laura Norvig
Paul, that would be wonderful, thank you. I'm keen to use FF as a kinda Twitter client. I'd love the ability to import my group I've created on Tweetvisor too but that would additionally require exporting facilities from Tweetvisor, and from asking them they've told me it's low priority (which is fair enough).
- Kol Tregaskes
That's fantastic! Sharing with all of my not-yet-friendfeedified twitter friends. Thanks, Paul!
- Eric Johnson
This IS good. Thanks for the hard work, Benjamin Golub.
- Micah Wittman
Love that you guys are making the entry more enticing. What about refining what FriendFeed is further? Like: Twitter + conversation. For new people who don't get it and most without the time to get it, simplifying the message or experimenting further with your "first impression" on your splash page might be worth a try. Example: wouldn't it be cool to have a live conversation streaming to show just how FF has a leg up on the scattered Twitter stream?
- kilbuda
WOW! 313 new Twitter people! Amazing what the OAuth did. Amazing. That just completely Rocks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That was just too easy, and found a bunch of Twitter people. I just subscribed, but I hope they participate. I'm sure I'll have to trim later.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Thanks for everything Benjamin and the others, that is really great. :)
- Alp
I was subscribed to exactly 100 of the people I follow on Twitter. Added 93 more. Funny, this is actually helping me find people I *don't* want to follow in either place.
- Laura Norvig
I'm looking forward to the "advanced imaginary friends" section which lets me as an existing FriendFeed user view all the twitter updates from people that don't use FriendFeed.
- Brian Sloane
Just posted this to my stream then saw this, Cool stuff Paul
- Charlie Anzman
Some time ago I spent lots of time in removing my Facebook-Friendfeed integration, and didn't succeed, Facebook refused to remove it. Since that - no info about any other my services to Facebook, ever.
- orie
Happy to hear that there will be an improved imaginary friend option!
- Jacob
The improved imaginary friend feature will be great. No need to visit Twitter much then!
- Pinksy
How do we give virtual bucks to Paul, oh I see a like button here. Off to work on the influence funnel, who cares about dollars, I want eyes ;)
- Mark Essel
FriendFeed is constantly bringing new value to the service. I'm loving it!
- Amie Gillingham
I just imported 8,000 new Twitter friends. Worked MUCH BETTER than last time.
- Robert Scoble
Smart move guys. A quick way to grow FF users is to tap into the current hot properties. Can't believe other Social Networks are so slow to respond.
- Neill Adamson
Paul, is there a way to sync it so that people I no longer follow on Twitter are unfollowed on FriendFeed?
- Jorge Escobar
Great news on the advanced imaginary friends. That plus the ability to comment back to Facebook posts as easily as we reply to Twitter would be killer.
- Kevin Kuphal
Personally, I am having problems logging in and logging out of friendfeed. I receive the following error: Access Denied The resource you requested is private. You may be able to access it if you sign in to a different FriendFeed account, or there may just be an error in our service. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you see this error happening a lot, please let us know in our support forum. Return to the FriendFeed homepage
- Bryan Penczak
Then, I am forced to log back in, where friendfeed says that I have not given access to twitter/facebook. I log in with my friendfeed account, and at first it didn't work, but now it does. The only way I was able to log back in to friendfeed was to have myself logged back in to twitter or facebook within the same browser. Something's weird.
- Bryan Penczak
Not sure why this wasn't implemented a while ago but it's a welcome addition.
- Jason Williams
None of my Facebook contacts are on ff.
- JECO Photo
Ca passe 50 fois par jour ce truc là sur FriendFeed ! C''est pas possible d'arr^ter, j'en ai marre de le voir franchement ... ^^
- Jean-Marie Gall
from twhirl
@Robert cannot seem to do that with groups. What I want to do: Concentrate different RSS feeds (e.g. newswires) which do not necessarily have an account in any other social network into one imaginary friend's collection of feeds.
- Mark Jacobs
Mark, "groups" (formerly "rooms") are able to import feeds just like regular users (and imaginary friends). See https://friendfeed.com/xoogle-... for example (imports the blogs of all known xoogle startups). The only thing special about imaginary friends is that they don't have usernames (or rather we assign a random 128 bit username).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, the DM option on imaginary friends should perhaps be removed. Also, imaginary friends do not show up on the search dropdown list when you type in their name in the search box.
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, is it possible to automatically create "imaginary friends" from twitter following list? What I would like is to read all my Twitter in FriendFeed; many of twitterers though are not on FF, so I have to create them by hand which is tedious. Also, it would be nice to allow to add them to some special list.
- Ihar Mahaniok
Ihar, see my comment up in the middle and Paul's reply. Looks like FF are working on it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Still would like an imaginary friend than making bunch of Groups to simulate peoples that doesn’t use FF. BTW, unlike the Facebook Connect login, when I tried logging in using Twitter, it made a new account for me on FF instead of opening my own (which also has Twitter activity added).
- Natsuki Seika
Jaiku | @jyri har skrivit och talat om sociala objekt. Finns det någon litteratur som tittar på sociala objekt som system? Annan litteratur om ämnet funkar också. - http://alexz.jaiku.com/presenc...
I'm not a techy person at all, but I can say with confidence that this whole API thing is really ticking me off. What's the point of limiting tweets...we are on Twitter to chat. Just get that back-end stuff fixed already (like I said, I am sooo not a tech person). :)
- Jennifer Windrum
The comments on that post pretty much said it all: a quick addition or two to the API calls and the load problem vanishes. Can't imagine why they're adamant they won't do that. Strange stance to take.
- Mark H
I haven't been too impressed with the tone I've seen taken by Twitter in many of the e-mails and threads. What this does is mean that every service that taps the API in this way will be restricted to working "sometimes" or for "some people". Socialtoo, which Jesse runs and I help out with, might be closed to big users who would use their unfair share of API accesses. Another alternative is for developers to reduce features or frequency.
- Louis Gray
Is it possible they've got nobody there who can form an SQL query more complicated than "select * from users where id = X"? That would explain a lot.
- Mark H
I suspect the monetization pressure is starting to mount. Free flowing API helps growth and userbase, but after a point they'll likely sacrifice growth and userbase to monetize some of what they already have.
- mikepk
There are already ample opportunities to monetize by removing the cap for developers who pay. But as Jesse's post and comments show, they're uninterested in that, or in any other methods to start earning money.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Thomas, I can't speak for FriendFeed, but I believe they still are one of the XMPP partners and are outside of this issue.
- Louis Gray
Why wouldn't Twitter just set fees on developers using high levels of the site's API?
- Sonya Smith
Are they possibly just trying to stabilize what they have in place because they don't have the resources (financial or otherwise) to improve infrastructure?
- Kevin Whalen
from BuddyFeed
@Kevin They could easily acquire the resources by working out deals both with high API users, and with the bodies that fund them. They aren't bothering to do that.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Works to the advantage of friendfeed and other such services.
- Richard A.
I'm confused. What's wrong with using multiple IPs? If you do more than 5 requests a second, get another IP. Heck, you could even jerry-rig a server so you didn't even need to buy another one.
- Mark Trapp
Well, I have recently noticed that things on FriendFeed getting to twitter has been slower in the last few weeks or so.
- Wizetux
if Twitter follows through on the API query limits. Will those apps written on their platform be grandfathered? or does the cap apply to all comers, current and those "on the come"...?
- Gregg
I think they're shooting themselves in the foot here
- Jaemi Kehoe
I think we should wait to see what Twitter is going to do here. API limits may mean they have somthing in the works.
- Roberto Bonini
I find it interesting that previously Alex talked about how it is his job to enable opening up the system ( http://al3x.net/2009... -- "I open up as much of Twitter’s functionality as I can without (hopefully) making the system insecure"), and now twitter makes the system more closed by setting limits on the very tools/features that define the twitter experience.
- Andy Bakun
Terrorists are becoming more and more innovative. It won’t be long before their preparations for attacks include the gaming of news sources like Twitter. All they have to do is be the first to send out tweets as the first bomb goes off and then let the echo chamber do the work for them.
- scott anderson
as usually with innovation, you can have bad or good uses of it...
- duprat julien
the thing is, terror groups don't align themselves with sophistication as this would increase exposure for being discovered and increase likelihood of failure. The best means would be to keep it simple and extremely effective. This paranoia about terrorism needs to stop - if someone is gonna blow something up you stand next to no chance of stopping it via proxy like cutting down on what we can tell each other on whatever service.
- alphaxion
That's wrong. Site visits isn't what should be important to bloggers. It's readers that matter and bloggers should publish via any means possible to reach as many readers as possible. Like any business, the customer is always right so however readers want the content is how bloggers have to publish and it's the bloggers' responsibility to figure out how to monetize their mediums.
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Bloggers don't matter as much as their readers. Great content gets response, no matter what subscription method they use. Bloggers who art trying to make a living from selling ad space shouldn't use RSS - and so cut themselves off at the knee...
- Robert Worstell
Robert, name one blog that makes money from ads that chose not to "cut themselves off at the knee" by offering RSS, please.
- Josh Bancroft
If a blog doesn't have RSS, I'll never go back after my first visit and I'll retain the memory of my bewilderment at their stupidity and uselessness for the rest of my life. How does this make them more money exactly? (RSS love.)
- Deborah Fitchett
As a blogger, I love feeds. As a reader, a blog that doesn't provide a feed might as well not exist.
- Matthew Gifford
I've been banging on about using RSS for the last 5 years or so.
- Ian May
I've been a blogger for over 5 years, and i'd rather get one new subsciber to my feed than a thousand pageviews.
- Josh Bancroft
def love, to Josh - you can have email subscribers like an alternative to RSS subscribers - even more narrow circle of friends and professionals
- Alexey
i hate those "cut" feeds. sometimes venturebeat does it, and i hate it, 'cause i read my feeds mostly in subway (where i spend about 80 minutes a day). RSS IS FOR FULL FEEDS
- Kirill Bolgarov
I love RSS... it's all about the readers... I give the content away anyway...
- Aad 't Hart
Love fuhat has a better chance of getting me back to your site than anything elll feeds (RSS or Atom) - I'm not going to 'surf' to your site so give me a full feed so I can get your information. That is the best way to get me to come back - to see what might have missed.
- John Dorner
from twhirl
"Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and fiddle and personalise to your hearts content!"
- Chris Messina
from Mento