“Friendfeed needs mini profiles like Twitter has.”
May 26 at 5:15 am
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Luis Jose Conde, Ashton, Adam Lasnik and 27 other people liked this
True. One sentence would be enough. Maybe location as well? - Benedikt Koehler
I've been thinking the same thing as I've been checking out fellow FF users who have been subscribing to my FriendFeed. This will help me to decide whether or not to subscribe to them as well. I hope that Ben Golub is listening :-) - Thomas Ho
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There's a part of me that likes the leveling aspect of ff - without profiles, you either know the person by her name or reputation established elsewhere, or her content speaks for itself. But I'd also like to do some networking here and profiles make it easier to search and find people who are doing the same thing. - Todd Mundt
Yeah, shouldn't be too hard to add that. I'd love to also see a blurb about FF'ers in the little popup box when you hover over the username. - Paul Short
It would certainly save going to Twitter to read their bio and check out their website. - Sally Church
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The assumption is that the bio is useful. Ultimately I've relied more on what a person posts than what their bio says. - Todd Jordan
Don't add mini-profiles! I like how FriendFeed sticks to basics (it's "core competencies"). I enjoy looking at people's LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook pages for the other info. However, a pop-up with some mini-profile stuff might be helpful (ala Sally Church). Just don't clutter people's main pages with more stuff like most other social networks. - Mitchell Tsai
very true. at least a fields for real name and an url - kosmar
yes, i agree on that. Maybe even a more detailed profile page?...via feedalizr - Ryo
Why ? I never looked at them in Twitter except to find a pointer to a blog or website to determine the legitimacy of individuals. FF has pointers to find blogs/twitter feeds and more. You are what you post! - Brian Sullivan
totally agree. impossible to know who is the personn subscribing to your feed by just scrawling his feeds - ouriel
yes, that is what we need, another profile to up date (can't wait for data portability). I always simply go check the profiles of users at Twitter, LinkedIn or their blog before subscribing. - Lou Paglia
Well, a suggestion - couldn't FF just import the short Twitter bio? It does take time checking people out first. I was/am wary of randomly connecting, check out the Twitter blacklist too and avoided a couple of people that way. What happened to Ariel could happen to any other female on here, so caveat emptor. - Sally Church
they also need a real alert system to enable the monitoring of interaction on your feed. right now i have no IDEA when someone likes something or leaves a comment. I need to check my own feed manually every now and then - ouriel
Definitely import the Twitter profile. I would appreciate the snapshot of who the person is without having to go dig in the feeds. - Judi Sohn
@ouriel: I second that point. I'd like to be notified when someone comments on my posted items. Not even sure that's RSS-able in here, is it? - Bryan Person
Steve I solve this problem with a FF style ; ) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/li... - Erhan Erdogan
I think I don't need it now. Because I know all of my friends, if I need more info, I can check their other profiles. - Eren Emre Kanal
What I would like in FF is the ability to block at the individual blog level. It would be handy for people with more than one blog (especially when some are in languages other than English or blogs are personal/business) and you are interested in following only some. - Brian Sullivan
Hey, I saw such a conversation yesterday too ;-) (and I'm sure that I wasn't the first either) http://friendfeed.com/e/90c502... - Alexander van Elsas