You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
"One of the more interesting memes to come out of 4chan are posts of rudimentary drawings of inventions or scenarios that, at first glance, seem to violate the laws of physics and allow for something supernatural to occur. One of the most common types of of these posts are ones related to “free energy” or perpetual motion. We’ve taken ten of these images and asked Steve Nelson, a Physics professor who holds a Ph. D. from Duke University in physics, to explain why these somewhat intuitive ideas fall flat in real life."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
That one is going downwind, not upwind. But yeah, cool stuff.
- Otto
They plan on using the same principle to make an upwind-travel vehicle: "Next summer - we go directly UP-wind faster than the wind." http://www.fasterthanthewind.org/
- Bruce Lewis
LOL Adrian tries. I toss them. We had a shopping bag full of sauces like this from our old place. He said, "We may need them!" Man...he couldn't even tell how old some them were. I mean, some of them had OLD logos, like 2 iterations back. *blinks* Even when we go out, he'll ask for little containers of sauce, then there's 50 little containers on the top shelf of the fridge.
- Anika
I can stop any time I feel like it...honestly. I mean..it's not really that many...
- Rahsheen?
Make it so bad, this is the drawer where I silverware goes and i actually took the little holder/tray out. Now, I'm not sure how the silverware and the sauces were fitting in the same drawer.....
- Rahsheen?
I can honestly say that I never use any sauces that I've saved. LOL.
- Rahsheen?
go home tonight and empty that drawer into the trash. start a new collection tomorrow, but show your strength by getting rid of ALL the old sauces. do it.
- Morgan
Do you also save the twist-ties on bread bags?
- Anika
No, but the bottom half of our pantry is nothing but plastic shopping bags inside of shopping bags.
- Rahsheen?
Also notice how I'm not even mentioning the candy canes. *looks at calendar*
- Anika
I only keep ketchup, they go in a check box, with index cards, that I keep on my desk.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
free yourself from the shackles of sauce-dom! get rid of the old.
- Morgan
I keep them in a huge 1 gallon glass jar and its mostly duck sauce, Chinese mustard, and taco sauce (i open the soy sauce packets as soon as I get them and put them all in the bottle)
- April Russo
the top level of our fridge door. my wife collects them. it's a habit she formed growing up on the poor side in Malaysia. i periodically make portions of it disappear into the trash.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
"Since its early days, Tumblr has offered a useful import feed feature to help you bring content from other sites – like Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Blogger, etc. – into your main Tumblr blog. Technically, you could import content from just about any external site into Tumblr as long as there was an RSS feed available. Unfortunately, as @Shripriya first noticed, Tumblr has quietly dropped support for importing RSS feeds into their system. Tumblr’s support site still has a page on how to use Import feed but the feature itself has been removed, thus denying you the ability to use Tumblr has a lifestreaming service."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
ahhhhh, I noticed, it's bullshit, putting up the begginings of the fortress walls/ed garden; they feel confident enough (though rightfully so) that you will stay on the main tumblr site. I've been sort of dualing it out between Friendfeed and tumblr.. Yeah, tumblr.'s pretty, but there's just something lacking. If and only if... FF coud develop sharing options like tumblr? Like, Whoaaa.
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
On the plus side... it hasn't been failing as much.
- Outsanity
In that case, that's probably what the problem was.
- Steven Perez
No sooner do we say something than Tumblr crashes. o_O
- Steven Perez
I was thinking of setting up a Tumblr blog, but maybe I oughta stick with Posterous, at least for now... *facepalm* *whimper*
- Dennis Jernberg
Maybe all hope is not lost...Tumblr just imported a retweet of mine from a hour ago.
- Rick Schmidt
Rick, i'm betting any imports you had are still there but you can't add new ones. Tho, I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a script to bring that feature back.
- Outsanity
Importing was never consistent anyway...
- Rick Schmidt
Just double checked the Customize page from home. Quite a few little features seem to be missing.
- Steven Perez
I do solemnly swear to smile in this photo forever on behalf of all those who are not able to do so at this moment in time. I smile for all the memories of good times in the past and promises of good times in the future but, most of all, I smile for the present moment because it is the one that matters most. Stay smiley, my friends. Cuz I damn sho will. :)
- Rahsheen?
"The meat was crispy and blackened with delicious, smoky bourbon/mesquite flavor on the outside, and it was so rich and juicy on the inside. I can’t even describe how wonderful the slow cooked, smoky flavor was."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
My uncles in Romania know how to butcher them and all that good stuff. I just gotta raise enough money for a plane ticket. We have the room. :D
- Adrian
I don't use my grill nearly as much as I should, but an influx of new recipes may be changing that. :)
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
I had to do without for 8 years. When I lived in Illinois, I was one of those guys that would be grilling in the dark on my patio in the middle of January, when the outside temperature was subzero or slightly above. #gotitfrommydad
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
I actually eat quite a lot of vegetables, and have don't eat a lot of meat, but I would never suggest anyone consume anything but other than what they want to eat.
- Derrick
Let's also all grow a pair while we're at it?
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Growing beard is my default position. You'd have to convince me to take action not to. In other words: I'M IN.
- Micah
...and thus it was that the League of Hirsute Friendfeeders came into existence. Soon their numbers grew, and no barber in the land could stem the tide of face-fuzz, such was their determination to embearden the world.
- Le Slip Anglais
Ahhh, it's like coming home. Here, there be men cooking meat with fire, telling tales of derring-do.
- Le Slip Anglais
Oh wow, I remember this thread. Wasn't this where the League was born? Nor have I snipped, trimmed or shaved since that day.
- Le Slip Anglais
It is! It IS where the league was born. Ah, Sean, do you remember? We were so much younger then. Carefree. What did we know of the world? But still, I battle for the cause of the Bearded. No hipsters we, our beards grow free! :-)
- Le Slip Anglais
Dear FriendFeed. Here we are again. Another year. Like many of you, I wondered if we would actually still be here for Christmas 2010. Well, we are. A big thanks goes to Bret, Paul, Ben and all the team who, really, don't HAVE to keep this place running, but they do.
- Johnny
So much stuff has gone on this year it's hard to convey them in a simple post. We have had many births… so many births… no I mean seriously guys, give it a break. We have had romance, which warms the heart to no end. We have had break ups and once again 'total strangers' offered a kind word and formed support networks. We have rallied around fighting disease, fighting hardship and fighting the blues……. And we have lost some of our ranks. Far too soon.
- Johnny
I have heard many here and around the traps claim that FriendFeed is a clique… a group of core users… I have for many years tried to dispel this myth. Then it hit me just before. FUCK YES WE ARE A CLIQUE, but in the good sense. FriendFeed has a barrier to entry, it's called dropping your pretences, assholic attitudes and senseless bullshit at the door. When you come into this place, you...
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- Johnny
Life. And that is why this place rocks. Put aside all the tech social network fucking bullshit, I love this place because this is where we see life happen and, sometimes, where we live it. I count you all, yes ALL, amongst my friends and even some of you as deep confidants. So, what now…
- Johnny
We keep on living. What ever happens to the 1s and 0s that keep this place running between now and next Christmas is kinda beyond out control, but how we do what we do is TOTALLY up to us. We are, albeit loosely, a family of sorts. We put up with shit, fight, bicker, cuss, go silly, have fun, eat, joke, laugh, cry… and love. What strikes me the most is, at the end of the day, we often just suck it up for the sake of another.
- Johnny
So be you religious, not, whatever, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the most kick ass time a fat man from Australia could have. We may not be in the same place, but a place is saved for you at my family's table and in my heart. Onwards to 2011.
- Johnny
Happy my birthday and Merry Christmas, Johnny. Were it not for this awesome site, this awesome community, I don't know if I'd be half as happy and entertained as I am today. I love all of you guys.
- Mike Nayyar
Matthew let go after the picture, and Sarah begged for him to put his hand back. Now they are telling Kristine to "drive fast"!
- Louis Gray
from Android
That's kind of adorable. Wanna visit in February? I'll let you discover the wonder of shoveling!
- Heather
If you visit Heza, I want in on it... FF New England sleepover!
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
from iPod
I think the snow would be gone by the time I got to New England. :(
- Derrick
I saw it fall for the first time last Jan in NY. It was cold. Pretty, but cold. I can wait another 35 years to see it again if necessary.
- Surprisingly Monstrous
There's no snow in our forecast, I don't think, but it's supposed to get down to the mid-20's tonight.
- Derrick
I totally wanna' be there when Derrick sees snow fall for the first time. That would totally be a happy thing. :-D
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
Derrick I'm totally picturing you doing a dance in the snow. I'm up in Tahoe right now and it's snowing. It's super pretty out
- Tamara
from iPhone
Derrick, you should go with me to Wisconsin in February. I probably have enough miles on US Air to get you there. :)
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
I've heard good things about Madison, 3. I only wish LSU didn't have my life on such lockdown. :(
- Derrick
Just work for 2 days. I know it's a university, but I didn't look to see which one.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
My wife has lived in california her whole life. Once on the way back from San Francisco a couple years ago we got caught in snow in the Grapevine. She made me pull off the freeway so she could play in it because she had never seen snow before.
- Michael Hocter
from Android
It snowed in CA when I was 5. I totally remember it falling from the sky and floating down. Most of it melted as soon as it hit the ground. It was beautiful. I don't know why it hasn't happened again.
- Gabrielle
Probably because I'm here. And I grew up in Minnesota. With snow. And I'll effing CUT California if I have to shovel now that I'm here. Just sayin'. Prepare yourself.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
I would only like snow if I were a male. I would drink gallons of water and pee a prose in the snow. Other than that, I am with m9m.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I like snow, too. But I'm fine with 3-5 decent snowstorms a year like we typically get around here. Last year was an aberration.
- Christina Pikas
Woke up to 35F temperatures, but the real feel is 22F. I can't right now. NOLA gets this cold?
- Derrick
Well, I will say this about Twilight (and I was a late-comer in it, since I wanted to read it before the girl-child did...checking age-appropriate content, all that)...Stephanie Meyer is not the best writer in the world, but she does weave a decent story. *nod* I enjoyed "Host" far better...since I'm still something of a purist with vampires...in my mind (maybe this is just me) they...
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- Prosey BUTTONS!
I've watched *hella* Vampire Diaries. I'm on episode 19. I've only been watching for like three days. :(
- Derrick
:D I've heard mixed reviews on VD (*grin*)...between vampires & zombies...the House of Weirdz is chock full of monsters (here I've said for years my family is weirder than the Addams' Family ~ and now I have the name to prove it, thanks to Rene)...lol
- Prosey BUTTONS!
It's not bad. Just Dawson's Creek-ish, which might be due to having the same creator on both shows. It's not the best, but I'm entertained. :)
- Derrick
Crimmus injury report: I was taking the ham out of the oven and the juice and glaze that had gathered in the pan splattered and I BURNED my nipple. Hot oil/sugar seared mah flash... OUCH
Wow! Gunny, I BRUISED a nipple today! I was digging through (plastic storage) boxes in our shed this morning, and closed one of them on my poor right nip. Did your wife kiss it better for you yet?
- Ordinarybug Heather
Mine is pretty well stocked. I'm at 34 or 35 cameras and counting, plus multiple lenses for most of them. They're just all over the place.
- Michael Hocter
from Android
Although I still have this awful cold it has been one great Christmas because of having my son and daughter together for the first Chirstmas in 5 years. :)
It's all right, MM... I actually stopped doing them quite a while ago. I got freaked out by a helicopter flying overhead at just the right, or wrong, time. SO CRAZY!! I haven't done any since.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
The big, 55" Samsung we bought on Black Friday finally arrived. Its beauty is enough to bring a tear to the eye. The 40 incher is sitting in the corner sulking having been displaced in our affections.
I still need to dial in some of the color settings but it looks great right out of the box. The folks at Best Buy here and Memphis probably thought we were weird. We'd go in there and just stand in front of it for a few minutes. Dreaming. Dream fulfilled. :-)
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
It's a very nice early xmas gift. :)
- imabonehead
Yep. Can't wait to watch the Super Bowl on this monster. *rubs hands together in glee*
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique