We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - krz9000
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris
My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana McCall
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana McCall
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson
OMG, you poor thing. You have to use Safari? - Cyndy
Meta meta meta meta mushroom mushroom...so if you DO write about rooms next, will you create a room for the post? :) Seriously, I haven't used or installed the bookmarklet, but the post was very instructive. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
So far I don't get the idea of sharing something just on friendfeed. What's the advantage over publishing an item in my tumblelog (or even my blog) and importing the feed to friendfeed (besides the possibility of having pictures included in the friendfeed feed)? - Alexander Ebel
If you're already in FriendFeed, it may be easier to share it there. But if you have 1000 StumbleUpon friends and only 100 FF friends, then sharing only in FF offers no benefits. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
tumblr offers a fine bookmarklet, too. And at least at the moment I guess more people would find access to a tumblelog easier than to friendfeed. Sharing over the tumblr bookmarklet publishes the item on the tumblelog AND on friendfeed - so why should I drag another bookmarklet to my bookmark bar (where two del.icio.us buttons are already waiting, too...)? - Alexander Ebel
I'm 90% more likely to look at a share if it has an image. It's like a mini blog post. With this in mind, the bookmarklet is the way to go. - Vince DeGeorge
IMO it's up to the friendfeed developers to make showing up images in imported feeds an option. - Alexander Ebel
agreed the Tumblr bookmarklet is wonderful - Jamie
In the general case it's hard for FF to find which images are content, unless there's a Media RSS feed. I was reminding FF developers every so often about MRSS since I wanted it to work for OurDoings, but now that I'm using the API. When people first post stuff to OurDoings it's not always in final form. Now people get it ready first and send it out via the API the same way they were already sending it out by email. So I'm no longer in a hurry for MRSS feeds to work on FF. Somebody else bug them. :-) - Bruce Lewis
I'm getting to where I prefer to use the bookmarklet over using link-ups from other sites like Google Reader, Mento, del.icio.us, etc. - Akiva Moskovitz
That message really hits a nerve for me and pretty much sums up why I left the dotcom corporate world. - Mark Krynsky
small/startup companies FTW...corporations suck ass IMO - acedanger via twhirl
you can never get away from it for too long. Every organization, once it realizes a little bit of success, immediately gets the elements everyone like you and I dread. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Rizzn, unfortunately you speak the truth. - Mark Krynsky
Appreciate your concerns about PR spam but is it really that black and white? - Steve Rubel
What Steve meant to say was, "Why are you blocking the company I work for?" :-) - Louis Gray
Great list of PR spammers, and good tip on using one filter to handle multiple spammers. - engtech
Despite my above note, I agree with Steve that this is overblown. PR teams need to learn how to better engage with bloggers, but that doesn't make all their activity bad. Blocking all these domains is overdoing it in my opinion. - Louis Gray
If I remember, she spoke about it to and the eventually green lighted it. I think that's what counts :) - Sriram Krishnan via Alert Thingy
Alex: I just watch the Website and refresh early and often. What's amazing is how much faster Louis is. I think he has a direct link to FriendFeed's servers. - Robert Scoble
Benjamin: she didn't believe RSS was important to invest in. - Robert Scoble
Also, just as a PS, obviously a growing number of people have left Google (some of them prominently to Facebook -- hey they're still pre IPO, more ground floor (relatively speaking) opportunity there) - also of course Bret Taylor, Paul B. and the other two Friendfeed founders. Certainly any company is going to lose more people after vesting and/or when later in the growth curve (funny to say that now about Google!), but I'd be interested in numbers, how Google is benchmarking vs other companies (to the degree that one can find comparables to judge). I've read profiles of Meyer, and I know that she can be very thorough/sharp or tough/gatekeeper, depending upon the perspective. Certainly, she is a significant public face for Google in addition to her internal role and to my mind represents the company in that aspect of her role competently and effectively (more difficult to form an opinion in regard to internal role) - Alex Hammer
I noticed a problem with this "like" feature in Friendfeed; I find this news about Marissa Mayer trying to kill one of the Google products i like the most "interesting" but i am somehow hesitating to give it a "like" in Friendfeed. And none of the others did "like" this news either. The Friendfeed tag should be renamed to "interesting" - peter huesken
You mean, like, attend Maker Faire with all the other geeks in the valley? You also missed a VERY LONG traffic jam on 101 trying to get there. - Robert Scoble
i have the distinct impression you never do, actually. - hisherness
"Last week, for example, Mr. Buchheit’s followers on FriendFeed were treated to what he himself had discovered and found valuable online: links to interviews with the investor Peter Thiel in Reason magazine and the Google co-founder Larry Page in Fortune, an article about Justice Antonin Scalia’s views on torture on a political Web site, and a YouTube video of nine kittens moving their heads in rhythm to a song, among other Internet ephemera.
One benefit of the feed sites is that they make conversation around online media both less voluminous and more meaningful. For example, YouTube users left an impenetrable 728 comments, many of them trivial or nonsensical, on the dancing-kitten video. Mr. Buchheit’s friends left two comments about the kittens — perhaps the right amount for a video that speaks for itself. They left 14 thoughtful comments about the Justice Scalia article." - Paul Buchheit
The dancing kittens made it into the NYT! - Paul Buchheit
And a mainstream audience is exposed to FriendFeed... - Hutch Carpenter
Is this the 2nd time FF has been in the NYT? - Adam Kazwell
Yes, we "launched" the company back in October with an NYT story. There may have also been a small story when we officially launched FF in Feb. - Paul Buchheit
The NYT didn't mention that we also left 47 unthoughtful comments on the Scalia article. - Jim Norris
@Adam The first time was on October 1, 2007. - Anne Bouey
Wow, nyt makes it official: ⓞnor and Mark Trapp are thoughtful. - j1m
I read this story via the iPod Touch while at the A's game. Your making me inattentive to the game was probably why they lost! FriendFeed FTL! - Louis Gray
It's OK Louis. I just blogged it. You can just link to me :) As far as the A's ... yep, it's probably your fault. - Charlie Anzman
It's weird when I know so many people who are getting into the New York Times. I'm off to check if Cathy Brooks has blocked me. Sounds like the author of the article did. :-) - Robert Scoble
j1m - nice tie-in with google trends. Up, up, up and to the right! - Ginger Makela
Cool to see some more press for FF. As I grow my friend base, it becomes much more useful. Scoble knows how it is! - Bartek Gniado via Alert Thingy
When you are new and all the eyes are on you it is difficult to get a fair opinion that not based around hype or what other people are saying. - Gadiel Rivera
Hmm, well, one seems likely to be a DNS and/or network issue, and the other seems to be a problem with data consistency and reliability. If you can tell which is which, you get a gold star. - Jason Wehmhoener via Alert Thingy
