merci pour la reference. C'est un constat interessant. Je pense que la force d'obama est qu'il est non seulement sa capacite d'analyse et son energie mais aussi le fait qu'il est d'une generation nouvelle. Je pense qu'il est capable d'utiliser cela pour re-moderniser le fonctionnement du gouvernement americain de la meme facon qu'il a re-modernise la campagne. - Edwin Khodabakchian
use feedly mainly to subscribe to people's shared items, but it does pretty damn good job, worth the support - Dobromir Hadzhiev
thanks for the support! We are happy to help all the soures who participate to DonorsChoose - it is a great program: focuses on kids, specific projects and fraud-free delivery. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Thank you Robert for being a leader with this great cause. Edwin- you consistently prove that you can't go wrong by doing the right thing for the right reason. - Nice Fish Films
"It’s a great way to get an instant snapshot of all the newest updates. Clicking on a feed item opens it up in the Feedly page, much like reading an item in Google Reader. You can recommend the article (which I believe shares it in gReader as well) or send it to one of your social networking sites. Happily, you can also use keyboard shortcuts to jump between items and initiate other actions." - Russellreno
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I'm also testing the FriendFeed comments plugin for the first time on this post, but no one is commenting here! lol. We'll see if this one shows up... - Veronica
Thanks, VB. You've convinced me to give it another shot. I shall be backing up my OPML first, of course. - WazNeeni
WazNeeni: feedly automatically backs up your opml in your firefox profile folder the first time your run the welcome wizard. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Ooo....requires the acceptance of 3rd Party Cookies. Someone's lost a few Super Geek Reporter points. (j/k) - WazNeeni
Commented on the blog ... Not seeing the FF plug-in (at the moment using Chrome) ?? ... more ... Double-checked - Not there. I had the same problem with another blog until the second post. - Charlie Anzman
Thanks, Edwin. And after installation, my head exploded from the sheer mass of information I was looking at. I'll try again once I catch up on all my feeds, but I shall be avoiding the Twitter, FriendFeed, and FF Bookmark import options. It was just way too much. On an AWESOME note...Uninstall went flawlessly. Feedly extracted all changes to GReader perfectly. - WazNeeni
wazneeni: we are trying to better address overload in beta 2. It is not any easy nut to crack. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, no worries. I think my problem is simply the fact that I have over 5000 unread articles, and I've simply joined too many SocNets. So, Feedly seems to have worked flawlessly. I just couldn't handle the enormity that is my social network. - WazNeeni
I really like the integration with Google Reader and how it pulls in my feeds. I just wish that it wasn't a two step process to have an article I want to share show up on my Google Feed widget on my blog. So far the only way I can find to have it do that is click the "save for later" link. Then I have to go to Google Reader, go to my "starred items" then click on the "share" link to have it appear on my blog. **Update** Just figured out if I use the "recommend" link on Feedly that is the same as the "share" - David
Even though I have subscribed to some RSS feeds in Google Reader, I still prefer to go visit the web sites directly. Maybe because I feel like I'm missing something if I don't visit the web site. - Sylvain Nadeau
Wow, this is great! Thanks for posting about feedly, didn't know em before. But I love it straight away, now its fun going through your "GReader"-Items again :-) - natadd
"Mozilla/Firefox: Loser. Yeah, we'll see plenty of rhetoric about a rising tide and all boats, about Google continuing to support the Mozilla Foundation, and so on. But who are the most likely users to switch to a new browser with fancy technology? Those who have a history of doing that: Firefox users. Especially if Chrome really does offer a compelling memory management story they'll make inroads with users who are sick of the Firefox RAM footprint" [I'm not switching to a desktop browser without :
- web developer toolbar
- foxy proxy
- delicious integration
- feedly
- greasemonkey
- tamper data
- ...
With all the fancy extensions, it will take time to existing FF users to switch to another browser that won't have equivalent features for a while.
That's mostly what prevented me to move to Opera when i got fed up with FF2.
IMHO the target is MOBILE.] - Erwan Arzur
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Interesting move from Google. It will be interesting to see if Chrome will be like firefox open and extensible or it will be more of a black box like safari. I have been learning more about Android in the last month or so and have to admit that I pretty impressed by the internal architecture. It will be interesting to see if Chrome borrowed some of the concepts regarding Activities and data sharing across applications. Firefox FTW! - Edwin Khodabakchian
@Matt I was actually thinking about something similar to that.. I have a larger avatar set now (I was missing a bunch of people) and there is a lot to fit. - Tim Hoeck
Well you will have to pay me $100 everytime you wear the shirt if you are going to have my image on it. :P - Mathew Ballard
2x, 8y = awesome, and honored. Enjoy the shirt, and let us know if people ask you who everyone on the back is while wearing it, and what your responses are :) - Nathan Chase
"And today, authorities announced a new form of depression caused by not being "friended" by important people on friendfeed. Apparently Dr. Wadda Frack has postulated that as recognition from thought leaders in the social media arena has become a form of social currency, that the "poor" among us are prone to depressive fits of outrage at not being included on the friendfeed t-shirts of the rich and shameless. To quote Dr. Frack, "This is very sad. The poor are always the last to know." ;-) - Bill Sanders
And Dr. Frack also wants to know where to order said FriendFeed Tee. - Bill Sanders
:0 cool, can i send them a higher res av image? - sergiooo
what a devious way to get more subscribers! hahaha - tagami
That is SO cool. (as I'm sure you already know) - Brandon Titus
So what's the deal, you just going to print on iron-on transfer or what? - Josh Haley
@tagami .. I realized that might happen after the post. FYI: new subscriptions will not be on the tee! I have the ones I am putting on there cached already (the pic above is not everyone) - Tim Hoeck
not to mention, these are the people I am subscribed to, not the ones subscribed to me! :) - Tim Hoeck
Is there a T-shirt service that let's you dynamically "program" t-shirts? I smell a business idea. - Jesse Stay
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And when I say that I mean a custom t-shirt for each buyer, based on a username on something like FriendFeed - Jesse Stay
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@Jesse Stay yeah there must be something I mean wheather you have charity or some cause you want to support there seems to be ways to get customized logos on shirts. I've heard of ways to even print a photo onto a shirt. - Colide81 (James)
Feedly becoming more social? Just about everyday I notice a little something new in Feedly. Upon selecting a specific feed, you can now see other readers and chose to "follow" them as well. Kudos. - Nice Fish Films
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I could listen to Jay Smooth explain the intricacies of waste management and be completely transfixed. And as I type this, I now understand exactly what he means by the overwhelming desire to go with the joke. - Roger Benningfield
Just as a side note: I can't stand Camron...LOL. This guy (Jay Smooth) is like...my video blogging idol or something. - ♫ Rahsheen™
Ooh, I just looked at its features... sounds interesting! Will give it a try later! :D - BeeLing
Yeah, i gave it another try last week and definitely impressive - but a couple of important glitches & bugs to fix - Zee from WeDoCreative
Edwin: there's no way to share the items I'm seeing, is there? That's a HUGE reason why I use Google Reader (so I can share items and get them into FriendFeed). - Robert Scoble
@Robert If you just click on 'Recommend' that's what they're calling 'sharing'. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Oh, I have to click on each item to recommend it? That's lame. I should be able to recommend an item right from the home page without having to click twice, just like here in FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
@Edwin sure, will do. Mainly just sometimes posts don't load and j/k to scroll down will occasionally miss a post or not go all the way to the bottom of the page. When I select "unread only", often it still shows posts I have read. The two most frustrating things: I can't tell easily which categories have unread posts in and finally - I was really excited by the river view because I heard you could view by categories from that page - which is unfortunately isn't the case... - Zee from WeDoCreative
If the sources could be arranged into categories like they would be in google reader, that would be a big plus. - Zee from WeDoCreative
@Robert - yeah, you need to click 'more' on the homepage view to get the option to recommend. They could easily fix this with a 'thumbs up' button permanently next to the post titles though - Zee from WeDoCreative
I really want to like the app, so I'm hoping they really keep working hard on it & hopefully make it more than just a firefox extension & also create some way to have the same kind of facility on the iphone. - Zee from WeDoCreative
just use the google reader shortcuts to use it. Alt+s to share. - Svartling
you Can also choose the river of news view an easily go through feeds with the keyboard - Svartling
the keys J and K to go up and down and Alt+s to share. Just like in google reader - Svartling
robert: recommend will add the item to your shared feed. as mentioned by svartling, you should be able to use the GR keyboard shortcuts (they works specially well in the river view - second icon on the top). The part that is missing is "share with notes". Which should be there next week when we merge the concept of feedly annotations and GR annotations. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: wow that sounds cool! Merging annotations with GR notes i mean. - Svartling
robert: when you sent us your OPML a few months ago for performance testing, you had just two categories (normal and favorites if I remember). Do you have more now? - Edwin Khodabakchian
ok. so the magazine view is probably not adding too much value in your case. The new wall which will go out next week has some of the things you have been asking for a long time: compression of multiple recommendations, filtering based on min number of recommendations, etc..(http://www.flickr.com/photos/6...) That and the current friendfeed and google search integration might be places were we can create value for a user like you. Does Maryam read RSS feeds? (she is more of our target!) - Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, I have no doubt you've thought this through a thousand times - but since you need to a) use firefox and then b) install an extension to use feedly....Do you not think it's going to be super-difficult to try & reach the non-geeks out there who aren't passionate users of google reader? "Most" non-geeks I know hardly ever install firefox extensions, let alone install firefox...they just use whatevers open or put it front of them - Zee from WeDoCreative
Zee.You are right about firefox. But the extension installation process is getting simpler and people through iphone, facebook and firefox are getting used to the concept of "installing an application". Stumbleupon is a good example. The feedback we have collected so far is that our problem currently with more mainstream user is not the add-on but the first configuration experience and the need to further simplify the UI. We have a parallel project called "feedly mini" to try to cracks those two nuts. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, awesome. Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like I was giving you pointers on a business I'm sure you're thinking about day & night....I just wanted to give my two pennies & also say that us geeks really love the product too, so don't forget about us! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
I've been using it exclusively for a week now. With the FF integration, I don't think I could go back to the gReader interface. - Chris Nixon
twhirl+ff is really opening my eyes to these services. Kudos. I'm off to take a look at Feedly. - Stu Andrews
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I am definitely enjoying my current switch from GR to Feedly. I like the fact i came accross Scobles twitter in Friend Feed because i was reading an article through feedly and ended up here as a result and discovered this. I enjoy loading up Feedly at lunch time to browse aimlessly, and i struggle to do that with Google Reader as i feel i have to stick to one subscription at a time and i end up getting put off. I dont feel overwhelmed when i use feedly. - Rowan Evenstar
Embarassed to say I downloaded and signed up a few months ago but have been too busy to use it. - Sally Church
Edwin, many people are still on Firefox 2 for obvious reasons. Isnt there a version for it as well? - Hayk
There is no feedly for iphone. But because feedly syncs in real-time with google reader, you can use/continue to use Google Reader on the iphone and it will just work! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Hayk: It was a hard decision but we really needed the extra security of windows.postMessage to mash services together more securely. Hopefully by the time feedly gets out of beta, more users have upgraded to firefox 3 (which is an *great* upgrade) and this will slowly become a non-issue. In the meantime , we are sorry to not be able to be more help. - Edwin Khodabakchian
I'd really like to try this out, but for whatever reason I live in IE mostly. Yes, I have Firefox installed, but I'm unlikely to start it just for Feedly... Switching completely to Firefox is not an option for me here. I'll give it a whirl, but until this can be done in IE as well, the market is limited to tech savy people... though that might be enough. - Matt Wollnik
Matt: we are a small team and decided to focus on firefox first to increase our chances of building something people like. Once we have a winning recipe we will look at porting it to other browsers. - Edwin Khodabakchian
Note to Robert: If you end up wanting to rollback some of the shared feeds feedly might have imported into your google reader account, simply go to http://www.feedly.com/feedly#g... There is an automated way to undo all the changes. - Edwin Khodabakchian
what do you think of the keyboard shortcuts? - Örjan Lundberg
Mixed reaction on Feedly here. I go to the river mode in Feedly and see all kinds of useful looking activity but when I click on the orange button in the FF toolbar I see a mostly blank screen with message: "This page is empty. Please connect your feedly to a set of sources and a set of social connections first. " -- this needs to go away. How to start at the wall or other mode instead of this empty placeholder page? - TDavid
Did not appreciate the hijacking of my reader. I do use it and finding I use it more than my reader at this time. - Jeff B
@Edwin - no thanks, it doesn't seem like something I'd use anyway. I took time to describe the bug for you here, that's your bug report. Copy and paste, mon :) - TDavid
TDavid: the reason I asked for the screenshot is because it would have allowed us to understand if you have sources defined but all of them are read or if an error happened during the welcome process or if there is somehow a problem fetching the content. Re the wall. In the more (at the top right) > preferences there is an option to change the start page. If the experience does not end up working of you, here is the 5 step un-install procedure: http://edwink.devhd.com/2008/0... - Edwin Khodabakchian
