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Reasons why FB bought FF in order of priority (pure speculation on my part): 1. Talent acquisition. 2. Technology acquisition. 3. Possibly patent acquisition. 4. As a test bed for trying out different approaches to how the FB news feed could work. 5. Eliminate part of the social media competition and prevent FF from being acquired by Google or Twitter. Andy, they paid $50 million or so for this place. They're not going to give the code away for free.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Greg, it certainly didn't pan out that way, but some of the speculation during the time of the purchase asserted that was part of the idea.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
This site obviously has no current use to FB, since it's barely being maintained, so presumably it's mission accomplished and it was worth the $50 million.
- Andy Bakun
Anyone know a fix for flickr streams? My friends won't show up unless I manually go into the settings of each and refresh from there. Sucky. Suppose this is similar to lack of fix for twitter too. - this place is going down in flames.
same for me. It's sadly funny, since the original purpose of Friendfeed was to collect feeds...
- .mau.
Are the powers that be deliberately trying to sabotage the ability to share feeds with ease across the Internet? Is this all about walled gardens and the profit motive driving the devolution of the Internet? The triumph of the pre-Internet mainstream media mentality? If so, annoying as hell -- we're moving backward, not forward.
- Sean McBride
I think the reason is more mundane: nobody cares about Friendfeed anymore.
- .mau.
I was surprised my youtube favorites updated automatically.
- Andy Bakun
Anyone keep getting the following message when trying to post with friendfeed bookmarklet: "this page includes script from unauthenticated sources" never saw this before, now I see it all the time, even on youtube/wiki! I'm using GC and there's a silver shield in my address bar! But I can post the exact same link from Opera! :-/
*bump* it's getting annoying now, i should add it's Dragon Comodo, which is based on GC open source, more or less identical. i find it faster than GC, my GC is sooooooo slow, now using firefox & Opera
- Halil
After weeks of twitter import working, it has broken again... and now even the backup I use (Twitter Feed) has broken too. Is this normal, or is this due to Twitter's 100K tokens policy?
Twitter's shutting down the version of the API that is in current use by Friendfeed, afaik. So that may be permanent. The 100k tokens policy probably wouldn't apply to Friendfeed, they probably have access to somewhere around 300k tokens. https://dev.twitter.com/blog...
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Oh crap, the API change. Damn. I wonder what the likelihood of Friendfeed updating its code to use v 1.1 is.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Probably zero. They're barely doing maintenance, never mind implementing new changes.
- Bill Mason
There's a hack you can use: Instead of importing a twitter feed, you can use a "custom RSS" feed, and use this url: http://api.twitter.com/1... (where xxx is your screen name). This worked for me just now.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The on again off again problems has led people to use advanced tweets - does that still work?
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
Laura: Sadly, while it works for existing users, it's at its follow limit, so no new users can sign up.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I thought I read that RSS feeds are going away when API 1.0 is sunsetted. Maybe don't quote me on that.
- Bill Mason
@Stephen - I just signed up for Advanced Tweets today and it worked for me...
- Andrew C (✓)
What's the deal with so many people not getting RSS, Atom and XML? Do they also believe that HTML is going to disappear? Weird stuff.
- Sean McBride
One gets the impression that opponents of RSS, Atom and similar markup systems are deliberately trying to destroy the connectivity and productivity of the Internet.
- Sean McBride
All Internet services should be easily able to communicate and share information with all other Internet services.
- Sean McBride
And what are Friendfeed going to do about the Twitter API upgrade?
- Dave Levy
Oddly, my yahoo pipe that reads from twitter RSS is still working without issue as long as I refresh it manually... So only 20 at a time. :(
- Andy Bakun
And my yahoo pipe stopped working. Twitter gives it 400 (Bad Request). I can still request the RSS feed from my home though.
- Andy Bakun
Dave, they are going to do nothing. Twitter and Google Reader will become just more dead icons in the list "all 58 services" supported, just like the old Wakoopa, TipJoy, Backtype, iLike, Magnolia icons that you still see in the list.
- April Russo
Backtype kinda imploded their own service; it's not like they changed an API and Friendfeed didn't update.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Backtype was acquired by Twitter, for their Hadoop tooling and analytics. Twitter shut it down.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
How hard would it be to write our own Twitter-to-RSS service to use as a custom RSS option for FF?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Technically probably not hard, but still beyond me. But I took a look at the Twitter dev terms of service, and I think that kind of thing might be against their rules.
- Andrew C (✓)
Advanced Tweets kind of works. I don't think it's against their terms if they make any provision of ownership to the author (the questionable case would be retweets). And yeah, it's not hard, just kind of costly.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
فید موقت تا اصلاح اشکال اطلاع رسان فرفر: چرا صداتون درنمیآد خوب! اول اطلاع رسان «جیتاک»اش قطع شد حالا نه ایمیلی از فرندفید میآد و نه میشه با ایمیل مطلب به اشتراک گذاشت... نکنه فقط مشکل یه عده است..؟ هان؟ شماهام دیگه از فرفر ایمیل دریافت نمیکنین؟... آیا کسی هست مرا یاری کند، ایها الفرفریون؟
توی تصاویر میبینید که با ایمیل تأییدیهای که بار اول برام ارسال شده سعی میکنم دوباره تنظیم کنم «جیتاک» و «ایمیل» مو اما پذیرفته نمیشه و آدرس دیگهای هم ساختم مو بهش معرفی کردم ،میگه ایمیل میفرسته اما هیچی نمیآد! | حالا نه از طریق «جیتاک» و نه از طریق «ایمیل» خبرنامه دریافت نمیکنم! فقط اطلاع رسان دسکتاپ / رومیزی فعال ِ که خیلی به کار من نمیآد مث اونا! | توی صفحۀ تنظیمات توئیتر هم : http://friendfeed.com/setting... امکان انتخاب این گزینه رو به من نمیده فرندفید : Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default میدونید چرا؟ | اینایی که پاک میکنند میرند و برمیگردند به خاطر برطرف کردند همین اشکالات فنی ِ؟ | از بحثهای حاشیۀ و فیدا هم خیلی از مطالب پیداست مشکل بعضی دیگه هم هست به ویژه اونایی که پرایوات کردند که گویا گاهی درخواست اشتراکها رو هم نمیبینند هان؟ | خلاصه پاک کلافه شدم اینقدر که وسوسه شدم اصلا ً پاک کنم! هر بار لاگین میکنم یه خدماتیشون کم میشه یا کار نمیکنه... اگه علاجی داره بگید جان ِ ما!!
- مسـღـافـرســـپـیدهدمـان
برای ما نیز ایمیلی نمی فرستد! نمی دانستیم.. دلیل و چاره اش را نیز نمیدانیم!
- باران❦ ❧
ممنون که گفتی... پس برای تو هم این مشکل وجود داره باران جان! توی صفحۀ تماس با فرفر به زبون خودشون براشون یه توضیحی گذاشتم؛ که اطلاع رسانهاشون دیگه کار نمیکنه... یه یادداشتی بذاره هر کی مشکل داره، یه وقت دیدین نه فقط درستش کردن که زاکربرگ اومد با کلی معذرت خواهی از تکتک مون!! :))) در ضمن آهای! بچههایی که پاک کردید و یا کلا ً تازه اومدید؛ همین مشکل دارید با اکانتتون؟ ما هم پاک کنیم دوباره بیاییم درست میشه...
- مسـღـافـرســـپـیدهدمـان
ممنون برای توضیحت مرجان جان...! البته اطلاع رسان ایمیلی فرفر تقریبا ً تازگیها - به نسبت اطلاع رسان جیتاکاش - قطع شده، تاریخ آخرین ایمیل دریافتی من: یکشنبه ۸ ژوئیه ۲۰۱۲ ساعت ۶:۲۰ بعد از ظهر | بچهها اگه شمام همین مشکل رو دارید توی صفحۀ تماس با فرفر یه یادداشتی بذارید شاید افاقه کنه!
- مسـღـافـرســـپـیدهدمـان
دستت درست باران جان... اصن زاکربرگ به فدایت...;)) ای بابا بچهها اطلاع بدید این اختلال اطلاع رسان ایمیلی شونو رو دستکم برطرف کنن... از طریق این صفحه میتونیم پیگیری کنیم: http://friendfeed.com/about... یا به وسیلۀ ایمیل به این آدرس: privacy@friendfeed.com
- مسـღـافـرســـپـیدهدمـان
*nods head* Hmmhmmm, they'll probs get right on this toot sweet or perchance they're on a FF'ing vacay forevs...
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
منم همین مشکل رو دارم ایضا اینکه متوجه نمیشم کی درخواست داده برای ساب کردنم و اینکه حتی نمیتونم فرندفید رو با توئینر کانکت کنم . ینی چک باکسش هر کاری میکنم کار نمیکنه و خالی می مونه و تیک نمیخوره و اینکه یه ایمیل ارسال کردم بهشون و مشکلمو گفتم و تو صفحه کانتکت هم براشون نوشتم و منتظر جوابم :دی
- Reza Ferferi
فکر کنم فرندفید سرور چت اش را خاموش کرده XMPP Message Error: Message delivery to friendfeed@talk.friendfeed.com failed: (Code 404) Remote Server Not Found
- ◄ 道 ► D/\\/|I|D ッ
علاوه بر همۀ اینها چند وقتی هست امکان جستجوش هم پکیده! به هر حال ممنون از توضیحت دوست عزیز... امکان ایمیل رسانیاش هم که به در خواست مکرر ما، کامل درست شده بود و خلاصه مطالب هر اتاق را هم میفرستاد؛ محدود شد به لیست مشترک شوندگان.. انگار اگر پیگیر هم بشیم تا چند روزی راهش میاندازند و باز متوقفاش میکنند، لابد هزینه داره برای سرورهاشون!! ;)
- مسـღـافـرســـپـیدهدمـان
Hopefully someone still reads this? I've had this problem for at least a month, where when you click on a picture in FF it opens a new tab, but does not display the picture, instead wants to download it to a folder on my computer. Using Chrome.
Gaby, I've noticed you may not have an idea what the FriendFeed Feedback group is for. This group is for bug reports and feature suggestions about FriendFeed.com itself. If you search through the Groups area, you should be able to find many groups more appropriate for the posts you've been sending to FFF.
- Spidra Webster
I have an archiving script that is running on a host that is apparently blocked by FF. It was working fine up until around the 16th of March. 208.113.198.153 is the IP. Can someone unblock this?
Damn shame. FF is probably the most useful social site ever invented for information and news. Wonder if Facebook could be encouraged to donate it to the community. I'd pay for an account that actually worked.
Considering the (apparent) size, if I had the code, I'd consider running it and maintaining it, perhaps for free.
- Andy Bakun
I dug around Facebook's SEC filings to see if they had put a value on FriendFeed as one of their assets. They don't even mention it anywhere so I assume that FriendFeed has zero value to Facebook. I use FriendFeed (or would if it still worked) for completely different reasons to Facebook. They're complementary rather than competitive. I also see a new use case for FriendFeed following this week's SEC ruling. Real-time social aggregation just became super important to the markets.
- Dominic Jones
Complementary, orthogonal, or completely unrelated? Facebook is a walled, and gatewayed, garden mostly. The idea behind FF is aggregation of open content, which is what drew me to FF and why I've always seen value in it (I'm not forced to be on the FF site; however, that could be the reason for the state it's in). Facebook doesn't seem to interested in that.
- Andy Bakun
Hey Lt. I just uploaded a photo just to test out the system and it worked for me. Maybe you can give it another try to see. All the best.
- Reinaldo Lopez
yah, it's decided to play nice again. who knows for how long, tho? *sigh*
- Smaller Joe Silence
FF is not connecting to my Facebook page, or my twitter account. Also, I set-up a TwitterFeed account, and linked my Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin accounts to it with no problem. I thought I could link the twitterfeed to FF, and it post to all my other accounts. I am pretty new at how to link social media accounts for automated posts. HELP?!
Facebook bought Friendfeed a couple years ago and FF isn't getting a lot of maintenance anymore. So when things break (as they do when Twitter and others change their code), they often stay broken for a while until someone at Facebook who used to work for Friendfeed notices and fixes it. Leaving a note here helps, but it's a bit of a waiting game.
- Spidra Webster