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Matthew DeVries
Gawd, this room is as dead as everything else. *blows dust off desk* Does anyone know if there is a search operator that will let you search your friend's profiles for key words? Like if someone wanted to find all the "Social Media Experts" they follow?
Do Anybody No? - Matthew DeVries
I refuse to post anything to this room until FF gives us subscriptions to saved searches. Yeah right, in my dreams :( - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
vijay
Mike Chelen
Alex Scrivener
My new favorite Flickr search "Vintage <your hometown>"
depressing when i search mine. it was all razed and replaced with parking lots and filling stations and, in one case, the new city hall. - Joe Silence is not dead
This actually turned up some really good vintage photos, prints, and postcards... i put it on slideshow and just watched for a while - Chris Heath
Mike Chelen
"The most popular entries among your friends in the past 2 days." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet
that's a neat trick... how'd you learn that one? #fftipsandtricks - Chris Heath
Chris: the number at the end of the url is the number of days to include, notice Best of Day is http://friendfeed.com/summary... and Best of Week is http://friendfeed.com/summary... and Best of Month http://friendfeed.com/summary... although that might be a bit inaccurate in 31 and 29 day months :D - Mike Chelen
oh i see what they did there... those links kind of gave it away if you paid attention to them... again, cool find - Chris Heath
hehe yeah, the same thing applies to users & groups, such as http://friendfeed.com/ccheath... :) - Mike Chelen
it might be nice to see the option in advanced search http://friendfeed.com/search... though - Mike Chelen
yeah i always thought that a timeframe would be nice for searches... good to see that it is possible (at least in some scope) - Chris Heath
Mike Chelen
Operators and #hashtags to show all pinned topics in a group http://friendfeed.com/search... with option to specify current status http://friendfeed.com/search...
Mike Chelen
Search for "service:((friendfeed )) comments:50 likes:30" on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/search...
suggested by AJ Batac in http://friendfeed.com/friendf... as a way to see new hot topics - Mike Chelen
vijay
Scheduled Saved Searches: The Next Big Update to Saved Searches ( to be used together with the "Subscribing to Saved Search" feature suggestion here --->- http://friendfeed.com/ffss... )
Scheduled Saved Searches: The Next Big Update to Saved Searches ( to be used together with the "Subscribing to Saved Search" feature suggestion here --->- http://bit.ly/eAMgg )
Scheduled Saved Searches [ feature suggestion ]: Your subscriptions and Friend-of-a-Friend(FoaF) get you content and content "recommendations" on your homefeed. Now, with "scheduled" Saved Searches content "filtering" comes into your home feed as well. Schedule the updates from your favorite people, groups, events, conferences and anything else you are interested in at a time that is comfortable to you and stay on top of your interests always. Since the updates flow into your feed at a time of your choice, you won't miss them; and since the updates are clumped together by topic, you can settle into a rhythm while friendfeeding. The audio attached to this post explains this in a little more detail. - vijay
Where's my sketch, baka! :) FOCUS DANIEL SAN! ALWAYS LOOK EYE! - directeur
( have you guys finalized the sketch you posted the other day? ) - vijay
You saw it? I mean the SVG (sorry, for hijaking this thread, let's DM :)) - directeur
Getting my hopes up :( - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
lol @ the smiley Ahsan :D. Just putting the idea out there, FF isn't the only one who can use this; openff can implement this too. Realistically, yes, it'll be a long time before this happens. - vijay
All they gotta do is hook it up to the email system (yeah, right) :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
LOL!!! - vijay
'Like' robot (frɐnc)
service:lastfm,ilike,pandora friends:me
Suggestion: do a search, copy paste the entire link in your post ;) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
but of course hehe I knew I forgot something. ;´p thx Mike :) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Don Faulkner
OK, this was cool. I wanted to see how scobleizer replies to twitter comments. So, I asked for all tweets not by him but with a reply from him. http://friendfeed.com/search...
I don't really have this as a saved search. This was research to see how one person manages his FF/Twitter interaction. But it does show off the sort of thing you can do with FF search. - Don Faulkner
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan, you should write The Idiot's Guide to FriendFeed some day. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Hmmmm... Let me know if you're interested in a particular search and I'll paste it here. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Oh, thanks. But this is such a gallery of possible searches that I can't think of anything different. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
wow! - vijay
Andrew Leahey
What Friendfeed theme is everyone using? I'm almost liking Helvetica, am I crazy?
Nah i love it too ... thats what i use - Bhowmik Shah
Its that or Blue Wave, IMO. - Andrew Leahey
I use it also Andrew.. - Bill Heslin
Tried the others, keep coming back to Helvetica. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Glad to hear I'm not alone. - Andrew Leahey
Same - Robert Kenney
I used helvetica for awhile, been using grasslands for the last few days (spice of life, etc.) - Brett Kelly
Blue Wave. But did use helvetica for while, before... - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das from fftogo
Steampunk - love it! - Elizabeth Parmeter
was using 'fresh' - to put abit of color on my stream - just changed to 'Helvetica' - to try it out. - Chris Clayton
I hadn't tried any of the themes until I saw this thread. Just ran through what's available and have to say I like Helvetica, too. Simple, clean interface. - Will King
Fresh is my fav. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I've loving Orion - Glenn Slaven
Yeah Orion is interesting as well... - Andrew Leahey
I am liking Helvetica and I am most definitely crazy. - Jim Hearts FF
vijay
Now that FriendFeed Realtime API is out, anyone doing any cool stuff with it? Would love to see some work done on Saved Searches.
The FF-Hacks group might have something? - Kol Tregaskes
tomit
Am I missing something? Is it possible to do an advanced search on the people in your Home Feed?
anyone? - tomit
That's a good question :) A Home Feed is not exactly a list (it doesn't have a list name) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But if you really wanted to, you could simulate that with: friends:tomit -list:abc -list:xyz - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Or I guess I could make a list that is a copy of my home feed. That's just a lot of trouble. I just wish it was a searchable item. - tomit from email
Yes, that's what I'd do. Personally, I don't have anything on my Home Feed. I have 25 lists, plus a Firehose list (with all subscriptions) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Any other opinions on this? - tomit from iPhone
I've added this to our bugs list. Thanks for the feedback. - Ross Miller
That's great to here. I use my home feed as sort of my favorites list. - tomit from iPhone
And maybe a Pop Out option for the Home Feed would be nice. I would love to have a pop out that I could leave up all day. - tomit
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
New Saved Search - Search for comments by FriendFeeders in the Feedback room - http://friendfeed.com/search... Sometimes you get those tidbits about what they're working on ;)
this is a neat idea. - vijay
yeah, really cool idea ahsan - Ivan Zuzak
hey, I just noticed something cool. Do a search with room:something and FF auto-changes room to group when it is _saved_. I know it's trivial, but ... cool ! :P - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
It's not trivial, it's obsolete ;-)) - ianf ⌘
I've edited the above search to add Ross Miller, a FriendFeeder - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Cool! - Kol Tregaskes
vijay
#STICKY : The Official FF Filters list. *note to admins - edit this post & add new filters as they come in, thanks :) Also, all comments in this post that aren't filter links have to be edited out.
Fresh Scoble Likes: Posts where Scoble is the first (edit: only) person to like - http://sn.im/gdlcx - vijay
FF is down?? - http://sn.im/gdlhp - vijay
Guess What I'm Watching? Popular FF game to guess movies/tv shows - http://sn.im/gdlj4 - vijay
Eating Out? See what people are talking about. - http://sn.im/gdlka - vijay
Coffee Lovers! - http://sn.im/gdll9 - vijay
Twitter FailWhale Sightings. THAR SHE REFRESHES! - http://sn.im/gdlma - vijay
Economic Discussions on FF - http://sn.im/gdln4 - vijay
Content posted by your friends(replace isthisstupid in the URL linked here with your login-name) - http://sn.im/gdlos - vijay
Who's checking FriendFeed out right now! - http://sn.im/gdlqc - vijay
Top Photos on FF that aren't *liked* by you yet(replace koltregaskes in the URL linked here with your login-name) - http://sn.im/gdlr4 - vijay
Re-tweets from your friends and groups, with links (and are not thank yous): http://bit.ly/sEwRP - change the "friends:koltregaskes" with your username. - Kol Tregaskes
iPhone news filter - http://sn.im/gdlrp - vijay
FF Newbie - find who needs help with FriendFeed - http://sn.im/gdlsi - vijay
FF Favorite people - find who is recommending who and if you wanna follow them. - http://sn.im/gdltd - vijay
Retweets (via @ or RT @): http://friendfeed.com/search... - Bwana ☠
Forgets - intitle:"I forgot" http://friendfeed.com/search... funny stuff in here :) - Bwana ☠
New Jobs - intitle:"I got a new job" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Bwana ☠
Memes - intitle:meme comments:2 likes:2 http://friendfeed.com/search... - Bwana ☠
Track Twitter @Replies to multiple Twitter accounts (Replace 'SocialGeek' and 'Palsule' with your Twitter accounts) http://friendfeed.com/search... - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Track Scolbeizer's announcements under embargo: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Sriks7
service:lastfm,ilike,pandora friends:me http://friendfeed.com/search... - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Matthew DeVries
Ok, so I want to do a saved search for DM's from people on a specific list. Say the list is called "Meat Space Friends". I want to go to a saved search for DM's from people on that list.
I couldn't find a tick box or dropdown for that, so it will have to be a syntax operator of some sort. - Matthew DeVries
I remember Ahsan doing stuff with lists. Maybe he can offer a hint. - vijay
Well, I was about to say it's impossible until I played with it. It seems to accept from:yourfriendsnick to:yournick !! A new parameter that is not documented ?! However, you can't search for DMs from people on a list. I'm going to post this 'discovery' in a few more rooms - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan - would from:groupname to:yournick work? - Matthew DeVries
Actually, if it's a list it would be "to:YourUsername list:ListName" - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No - those don't work either. Tina's search should work (theoretically) if your DMs are appearing on that list's FOAF.... Needs to be tested - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
to: also seems to accept group names. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
FYI I just added Matthew to a list and tried "to:YourUsername list:ListName" and it works properly. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, it doesn't work for me. I have a DM from someone who is on my Favourites list. So I did: to:highandwild list:favourites and I got nothing. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Did it pull just my DM's Tina, or did it pull all of my posts? - Matthew DeVries
Matthew, what you could do is ... just to:dariusmdev but that will include DMs from all your friends ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Neither, actually =/ It pulled in posts you'd made to your mainfeed and CC'd to me, but not the DMs you'd sent to only me and not the posts you'd made to your mainfeed that were *not* CC'd to me. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well damn. I guess we need to put this into requests then. - Matthew DeVries
True, but based on how lists work the current functionality is great. Searching a list searches the posts in that list, not posts *from people* in that list. So with the current function, the search results I got were valid, it returned posts in List X that were to:myusername. DM posts never showed in List X, so there's no way for them to come back in that search. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think adding a DM search operator would be easiest for them, but I'm not a DB person. - Matthew DeVries
Aha, I tried Tina's search on another list where I've been crossposted to. It works. To summarize, it will show cross-posts but not private DMs. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
So, the problem you guys are running into is that the feeds for DMs and Lists don't overlap. By doing 'to:me list:listname' you are adding an implicit 'and' meaning that the entry would have to show up in both the list and your DM feed. This can't happen unless the post is cross-posted. If you're looking for posts from a set of people, you can try 'to:me from:nick1,nick2,nick3,etc...'.... more... - Ross Miller
Ross, I think the issue is that people create a list, say 'Favorites', and those are the people they're truly interested in keeping up with. They would like to be able to see all posts from their favorites (which you can do when you visit the list) and sometimes they'd like to see all DMs from that list of favorite people. Unfortunately, to do that we have to do double the work: first... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Totally, I agree. Maybe a link to the search at the top of the list is in order. I just wanted to share the current method to search for DMs. Great suggestion! - Ross Miller
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search with the to: parameter for cross-posted items, or DMs:
to:yournick from:yourfriend - finds all DMs from yourfriend to you. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
to:scobleizer to:the-next-web - find all items crossposted to Robert Scoble & the Next Web group - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
to:yournick list:listname - find all items crossposted to you by the friends who are in 'listname' (Thanks Tina) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
to:yournick - find all items cross-posted to you, and all DMs. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
to:the-next-web - find all items cross-posted to The Next Web group - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
New Saved Search - Google Watch - https://friendfeed.com/search... - the better your subscriptions, the better your results !
Kol Tregaskes
Mentions of "Sims 3" that are not in the Sims 3 group: http://friendfeed.com/search...
Anyone else playing this? Join the group here: http://friendfeed.com/sims3-p... - Kol Tregaskes
Alex Scrivener
I have a search for my posts with no likes where I am the only commenter (-likes:1 comments:1 -comments:2 comment:alexscrivener from:alexscrivener) I have another for my posts with comments or likes (comments:1 OR likes:1) from:alexscrivener. How can I subtract the first from the second, so that I get my posts with comments or likes, unless I am...
Hmm, by definition it's already excluded... The first one searches for posts without any likes, the second one searches for posts with at least one like, hence it shouldn't overlap. I suggest this: from:alexscrivener -likes:2 OR -comment:2 which will get all posts with exactly one like or exactly one comment. Try it out. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
alfred westerveld
Fwd: I like to search for stuff related to php but not in url, because a lot results are like http://a.com/a.php which i don't want in the results? Does anybody know if it is possible to filter these results out. Thanks (via http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
there's no way to parse the content and weed out those with links. Maybe someone can chime in with a clever hack that can do this? - vijay
I had a try and a think about this at the time but couldn't come up with anything. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
I guess regexp is the answer, but I don't think it is implemented... - alfred westerveld
Bill Kinney
Is there a way to exclude groups from search results of those that we follow?
Yep: "-group:ffss" to exclude anything from this group. - Kol Tregaskes
is there a way to exclude all groups though? - Bill Kinney
Oh I see, hmmm, not sure. - Kol Tregaskes
using -group will at least help to pair down some of the noisier groups. Thanks Kol. - Bill Kinney
No worries, Bill. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
try this - create a list with all your groups and do a -list:listname - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yeah i have a list called "Rooms" not sure if I made it or if it's a relic from the previous ui but it works for that purpose - Chris Heath
Creating a list then excluding it totally worked. Thanks everybody! - Bill Kinney from email
Good shout, Ahsan. Like that. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I'd say that there should be an operator to include/exclude groups or users from search results though. - Kol Tregaskes
In fact, if the FF team introduces the groups:me parameter (as suggested here: https://friendfeed.com/ffss...) we could just do a -groups:me ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan, agree, it should be a parameter versus having to fudge a group. - Bill Kinney
Matthew DeVries
How doth I:
Do a search, for all of my comments and posts, in a specific group? Say this group: http://friendfeed.com/android - Matthew DeVries
from:dariusmdev,comment:dariusmdev group:android - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks Tina! - Matthew DeVries
Well, the OR operator there isn't quite working the way I thought, it's finding your posts that you've commented on in Android but not the posts from other people... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
From my desk, I see nothing. It must require different syntax when searching as yourself. - Matthew DeVries
Try from:me instead of your username (ditto comment:me) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from:me OR comment:me group:android is how I got it to work. Thanks! - Matthew DeVries
vijay
Twitter Trending topics! Right here on FriendFeed. Just run this Saved Search --->- http://friendfeed.com/search... #ffss
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Dear FriendFeed Team, please consider introducing the following parameters for Saved Searches:
Search by date/time range - e.g posts within the last 12 hours - posts in the last 10 days. e.g days:1 OR hours:24 OR minutes:123 - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts liked by Friends who are on a certain List. e.g like:list_name - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts that have an inline image. e.g has:image - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts among friends only (excluding groups). e.g friends:me - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts in all groups I'm subscribed to. e.g groups:me - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Search for posts in a specific language. e.g lang:english - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
What about search within My Discussions. - Chris Heath
Chris, you can simulate that with: comment:cheath OR like:cheath ...but it would be nice if that was given as an auto-complete option if you used the search box on the "My Discussions" page :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yes, I was thinking of an selection in the dropdown with the lists. - Chris Heath
Ahsan, good list. I posted a few here too: http://ff.im/24rJu - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks Kol - that's a great list ! I wonder if the FFers are working on even a subset of those ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Thanks for all the suggestions Ahsan! - Ross Miller
enable the 'hide' link for entries in groups, saved searches, etc. - JECO Photo
yea. more power to the SEARCH! Kol, that's a helluva list. :0 - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
JECO: I think that suggestion deserves its own post. ...posting naw - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
CantorJF
I've arranged Friends in lists, but if i see result only from that list i loose posts they comment, and like.. thati i see all on my fist page .. how can i arrange a search for have all from users on a list?
Not sure if I understand your question, but try this: http://friendfeed.com/search... It will search posts posted by your friends. But if you browse the list manually, you'll see their FOAF entries as well (those don't appear in search). - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I try to explain again, in comments there are more words :). If i watch the main page i see posts of my friends, but also posts they comments and they like. If i arrange few friends on a list and i watch updates from that list i see only posts of those peoples .. Then i mean a search for have Posts/Comments/Likes of a list of friends, then a "restricted" Mainpage. - CantorJF
Gotcha. list:name only searches for posts by the members of the list, not their comments or likes ;) If you try comment:listname FF will accept the search, but the results will be incorrect. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
is what i noticed, and like:listname has no results :| .. - CantorJF
(i arranged my Friends by foreign language, then i can have access to lists that speak in "Italian" "English" "Japanese" and so on .. like this i loose a "piece of cake " :D ) - CantorJF
Good idea ... You can try suggesting this functionality in the friendfeed-feedback room ... in fact, add it as a suggestion to my thread: http://friendfeed.com/ffss... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
vijay
The Next Big Feature in FriendFeed Search...
sub-to-saved-searches.jpg
why? because with this, you can click on a #tag and get updates whenever, wherever, whoever uses that tag again. Like on twitter. - vijay
gimme more ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Not just a #tag Vijay, but any word ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
This is much more powerful and useful than groups. For example, with this, I can get updates from anyone who uses #iPhone than only from the few who are subbed (like me) to iPhone room on FF. The barrier to entry of finding the appropriate room and subbing to it is completely removed. - vijay
ah! you're right! any word Ahsan. Not just #tags. - vijay
But you can get results from any group by searching everybody - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But I need to "run" the search manually to get NEW results. With this, results are auto-updated since I'm subbed to them. - vijay
I don't follow you .. you don't have to run it manually since the real-time ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
i.e search for 'iphone' without friends:me and you'll get results from everyone, all the groups in real time ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
To run the search you need to click the saved search right? With this you don't have to. It's like Groups. eg: *3 new results 30 seconds ago* - vijay
Well, if you subscribe to a saved search, yes, I don't expect to have to click it to run it ;) Right. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
that's it. So whenever there's a new search result it bubbles up to the top of the list to notify you of new results. Wonder if this is a big deal to implement. - vijay
Do we need a FF hashtag directory like Twitter has? :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I think we do Kol. It's really good to expand our mind and see what's going through each person's life: kinda why I started this thread here on google searches -->- http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - vijay
alrighty Kol! LET'S GET IT ROLLIN! - vijay
Vijay, go for. Post suggestions on how best to use the group in the new entry. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
was just thinking about that actually. Will post them as I come up with it. : ) - vijay
BRING IT ON!!! I gotsta have my updates on caturday posts! - Brad Williamson
vijay
Fwd: Having fun watching posts stream in about Chrome OS: http://friendfeed.com/search... (via http://friendfeed.com/bret...)
Look at the way she moves ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
and I can see why. This is big. - vijay from iPhone
This is exciting and torturous. First Google Wave, and now OS. We have to wait a year to obtain access. Bah ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
lol! I know! First I thought I'll get myself an invite then realized it's no fun to play with this all by myself. Tech is no fun without people. And so begins our long wait... :S - vijay
Try it with -service:twitter (Google Dropped A is trending on Twitter) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Or even better: with comments:2 to follow the discussions only - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
much more manageable. Most of the twitter stuff is just RT mania anyway. - vijay
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