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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Why have I been neglecting Friendfeed!?

August 17 at 9:36 pm - Link

Joe Dawson, Mitchell Tsai, Vinay | विनय, Dave Winer and 66 other people liked this

I've noticed that I'm getting tired of it too. We really need a much better way to talk to the database on FriendFeed. I'd love to see all items in a real reverse-chronilogical view (no bubbling up of attention-getting items), along with only displaying items that get two likes or more and one or more comments. Imagine if you could do that? Now imagine if you could filter out things. Like, remove anything with Obama or McCain in them. That would let me build a much better news river than I can get anywhere else. - Robert Scoble

I think that the bubble effect works well if you have subscribed to just a few people but I would think that if you have thousands of "friends" then it would be almost impossiable to keep up. I did like the idea that somebody suggest of being able to tag some of you friends as real and then either giving them higher priority or creating another tab with just their feeds in. - John Cooper

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Forgiven ... for now. - Charlie Anzman

Good point, Robert, I would filter out "iPhone". - Ryo

When TiVoing the Olympics and not wanting to read spoilers, I'd filter out Olympics, Phelps, etc. - JD Lasica

the true leading edge simply doesn't need to be here, or facebook, etc. - i would like to see discussion around an idea all in one place, not here, then over at louisgray, plus what i missed at dave winer ... - gregory lent

I agree a keyword filter would be great, and it should be reasonable to implement a feature like that. As for the bubbling, I'd like to keep that for me. - Thomas Frütel

the true leading edge doesn't have a community, as there are very few who are there - clarke thomas

if they only displayed items that inky had 2 or more likes, or at least one comment, then no one would see anything, since in order for it to appear, it needs to be liked. In order to be liked, it needs to appear. - Andru Edwards

I think Robert (and the rest o'yaz) are right that better filtering is needed. I know noiseriver and some others are working on this (and of course the FF team.) Would be great to "weight" people, services, and keywords... - Anthony Citrano

Some of you apparently need a "Web Service of the Month Club" membership. ;) - abacab

Filtering and chronological sorting, setting like tolerances is all possible with the current API. Adding data to people (like weights) would requires a database. I think it would be cool to have a 2 column layout, the left column in true chronological order and the right with standard "bubbled up" content. - Paul Reynolds

Bubbling is essential to maintain a conversation. Without it, everything becomes even more ephemeral. Just hide what you're done with. - Logical Extremes

Robert - I found this item through Google Reader (I subscribe to Friendfeed - Best of Day, which I flow to my A feeds folder). Because of the noise and information overload issue, I've pretty much given up trying to use Friendfeed by browsing from http://friendfeed.com/ - Sean McBride

@Scoble - sounds like mioNews might do what you want if I could just get the relevance ranking engine turned back on. It is designed to auto-filter out the stuff you've "hated" in the past and bring up to the top the stuff you've liked in the past. - Patrick Lightbody via mioNews

Allowing you an *option* to rate your contacts on a 1-10 scale and then allowing a best of hour, day, week, month incorporating these ratings into the algorithm would at a minimum produce an alternative "best of." And probably more relevant than relying only on social metadata (likes, comments) alone. This tool could also be used for custom filtering certain subsets of contacts as well. Eg. Show me content from all contacts rated 6 or higher, etc. - Thomas Hawk

I love it more than ever. Last week though, I did do some artful pruning of my subscriptions, and that has toned up my experience. Agree strongly with the request for friend grouping and friend weighting. Vital. In my opinion this functionality is FriendFeed's "fire alarm" and it's what they need to implement soon to balance things out. - Steve Isaacs

friendfeed is just passing notes in class, and about as fulfilling, you can find out who you want to meet out in the parking lot later. - gregory lent

If enough users begin to filter out items based on the number of comments and/or the number of likes, how would anyone see anything at all? Everything would be filtered out and nothing would get through. What am I missing here? I understand filtering certain types of content (e.g., Twitter, etc.) but I don't understand filtering based on the number of comments or likes. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

You just can't treat FriendFeed like Twitter, subscribe to a massive number of people, and expect a good experience. Although I like the ideas that Robert suggested, and would like to see them implemented, I also think that the best way to control the noise, at least for now, is through thoughtful subscriptions. FriendFeed currently remains for me now what Yahoo! was for me in 1996: the center of the web. - Akiva Moskovitz

Gregory: there would still be those of us who like seeing all the noise and "liking" the best of it. - Robert Scoble

Robert, that's a good point. I guess I would be one wanting to see the noise for fear of missing something no one else thought was valuable. For now any way. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

And use rooms effectively. They can be a great asset if the right people join and participate - Deepak

While the FF UI is far from perfect at this point, it's pretty annoying to hear a certain class of people who incessantly whine about how they suffer from information overload when they subscribe to thousands of people. Allow me to humbly suggest that the problem *isn't* some deficiency in the UI, but rather the problem is that *you subscribe to thousands of people*. The unmanageable noise level is your own fault. - Eric

The biggest feature for me would be to auto-detect and merge the multiple posts about the same article... Make the new submission a like or comment on the original, but keep it all in one place. - Jason Carreira

Eric, I wouldn't go so far as to say that 'you're doing it wrong'. Those use cases are valid ones. You can't design a customer-facing product and then demand that they only use it within a strict set of guidelines. FriendFeed needs to mature to handle the Scobles of the world as well as the Moskovitzes. Although I think that subscription maintenance is part of the process, at least for now, I don't think that wanting the product to fit your personal use case is call to accuse anyone of 'whining'. - Akiva Moskovitz

Eric -- at the moment I am subscribed to 78 people (not thousands) (and have 117 people subscribed to me). The problem is fine-tuning the stream to push the best *combinations* of people, topics, links and comments to the top of my queue. So far I am relying on Google Reader to try do the job. When Robert Scoble remarks, "I've noticed that I'm getting tired of it too," perhaps one should listen and understand. - Sean McBride

Keyword filter is essential. Meanwhile, keep FF #'s low. - Malcolm Gault-Williams

I have a problem with only wanting to see items that are liked. Then you only see top 10ers. If I have something to contribute, you may never see it. Kind of turns it into Digg. I like the fact that it's easy to see smaller conversations easily. Filters for keywords would be nice, though. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Sure Friendfeed could continue to evolve and improve its service. However, I would posit a theory that perhaps the "shiny newness" of it all is wearing off. It is the problem with the echo chamber, it is too hard to stick to the new services when it takes so much time to play with new things coming out in a torrid pace. Sure some will disagree with me but I think this contributes to it to a great extent. - Lou Paglia

I was using it a lot less lately myself and wondering the same thing. I've unsubscribed from a lot of the social net noise and found that this has freshened up the experience a lot. - Nick Munson

What Nick said. I think it's a much more interesting place if you avoid those who are FFing about FF and so on. - Anthony Citrano

I think it's Shiny Object syndrome, too (not referring directly to Robert here). FF has been slow on releasing new features. Some overhaul of the interface and taking up the many suggestions forwarded by its most active users would be a well-timed move. - Chris Baskind

Too much noise on Friendfeed, and by the time I get around to replying to it, the conversations are over. - Francine Hardaway

Francine: how can the conversation be over if you have something to say? - Brian Sullivan

I still really like FriendFeed, but when you are busy doing many things, it is harder to keep up with the key discussion items and people you need to follow the most. I think FF will find ways of making this easier in time. I find I need breaks from all socnets periodically to keep my life and focus in balance. The breaks help prevent "Shiny Object Syndrome" and fatigue.;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

@francine: two things cut down on the FF noise for me: 1) i 'like' all of the threads i find interesting, and then go to the 'ME' tab to keep up with them or comment on them later; 2) i 'hide' everything that's not of interest. - .LAGizmoto

Firstly, no one should need to apologize that they are using a website or not. Really! Anyway, I've always likened FF to chat, and I'm not a big fan of chat rooms. Something about FF seems to emphasize the immediate. I think this is what Francine refers too. There are some vauable nuggest of info, but I'm really not seeing the same richness of 'conversation' I find in blogs and blog comments. I think the non-linear exchanges between blogs (and occasionally in blog comments) tends to generate more thoughtful (and more valuable) exchanges. That sums up why I've been neglecting FF. - bernie

My FriendFeed experience is still good. Agree with those who recommend "thoughtful subscription". Remember too - it's searchable. I think the archival aspect is just as important as the real-time aspect. - Neil Saunders

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - FriendFeed needs the ability to collect friends into groups - and be able to view the feed of a single group. - Jonathan Beckett

Cee Bee posted a link

JUMP!

August 14 at 12:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Nick Munson, Kol Tregaskes, ian kennedy, Richie Keith and 77 other people liked this

"Jump" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

"Geronimooooo" - AJ Batac

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Someone's about to lose at a game of Lemmings. - Akiva Moskovitz

Gravity FAIL - Josh Haley

@Josh looks to me like gravity wins - Nine (9)

"There are rocks! I'm not jumping." - Next Duck - AJ Batac

so that's what lemmings look like - Christian Anderson

That duckling is my hero. - Hao Chen

Guys, look! There's a Chicken McNugget down heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere... *splish* - Akiva Moskovitz

I have no regrets!! - (Tad => Tad.Nerdity++)

Wherever may he fall, there shall he be buried. - Akiva Moskovitz

What the picture fails to show is the moment before, when that little duck at the edge gave our hero a good swift kick in the tail feathers. - Joanmarie

A certain Van Halen song comes to mind... - Nate Pilling via twhirl

Nate: Dance the Night Away? - Mark Trapp

I was thinking... JUMP! You know... "Might as well JUMP"! :D - Nate Pilling via twhirl

@TheNinth - LOL, but then, how do you know it's going down? eh? eh? eh? :D - Josh Haley

free willy hehe - Sarah Austin

Lemmings FAIL - Geoff K

Could be called "The Brave One". - Mike Reynolds

I SAID HAAaaaaaaaalt..SPLASH!!! - David Cook

HAHA!! - Mona N.

"Aaaaas Yooooooooou Wiiiiiiiish!!! - Josh Haley

+1 Josh - ::Kristen::

:) - saeedeh

من از اينا مي‌خوام.اونم در تعداد زياد :) - mhmazidi

Louis Gray posted a link

ReplyFeed.com: Social Media Conversation Management

August 11 at 6:56 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jennifer Fader, ian kennedy, oliver gassner, Kol Tregaskes and 38 other people liked this

"ReplyFeed is a free tool that will aggregate all of your replies from your various communities (blogs included) into one place. Now you can monitor replies, answer them and have them sent back to the community from whence they came in one convenient location." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet

@Louis can you get me in? - Aaron Myers

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This is always a good sign: "Thank you fro your interest in private BETA." :-) - Louis Gray

I haven't tried this site yet but had the same idea a few months back. If someone executes on this well, they'll have the summize equivalent plus plus plus - Jason Goldberg

@repleyfeed , thank you for the invite, can't get in without code ..pls post code alongwith invite !! - Peter Dawson

Louis - I'm still trying to get back to four others .... Help!!! (Signed up :) - Charlie Anzman

I was just saying last week that I need this service, I was trying to a get friend to build it - guess I don't need to worry about that anymore :) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl

LOL @Louis_Gray! Just hope the code is lint-free, it sounds like a good idea! - Chris Kim A

About damn time. - l0ckergn0me

@Peter you got an invite e-mail? I just got subscribed to some mailing list. - Aaron Myers

it looks too ugly to be true - i'll hold out. - Zee at WeDoCreative

seems like we have "Sunfish" on this one :)- check the address ..no more fail whale ? - Peter Dawson

ping.fm incorporate this asap and u will rule all - adolfo foronda

seems 'neat', but it feels like taking aspirin to get over a brain tumor. the problem needs some deeper work... - Jeremy Toeman

If this goes any further we will need a new aggregation service that aggregates all the tools that aggregate all the web services that aggregate all the discussions into one place (I may have missed a few aggregation layers here and there). - Alexander van Elsas

@Alex van elsas LOL you are right about that! - Colide81

yes, alexander is completely right ./.. this will end when an entire new ecosystem is invented .. and then will begin again - gregory lent

LOL yeah but that is the way of culture and even sorta like a ever growing forest. - Colide81

Not sure if anyone from ReplyFeed is reading this but their blurb above says "from whence". Doesn't "whence" mean "from where/from what place", making the "from" redundant? - Richard Crocker

i started writing a blog post this morning entitled something like " 5 new technologies that solve problems you didn't knew you had", but I never got around finishing that with all the comment fragmentation floating around ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

@Alexander - You need Friendfeedfeed! http://friendfeedfeed.com/ - David Young

David LOL, the whole point is that I'm a normal human being that has no need whatsoever for aggregators that agregate ..... and so on. You do know someone out there is already building an aggregator that includes friendfeedfeed. Don't see the value, and I sure can't explain any of it to non-tech friends or family ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

RF reminds me more of "Republique Francaise" :) - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

RF= Radio Frequency :) - Hayk Hakobyan

Andy DeSoto posted a link

MANGA YOUR YEARBOOK

August 17 at 9:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Wally Punsapy, John Cooper, Hutch Carpenter and ian kennedy liked this

The 1980s meet an alternate Japanese reality in this wild and wet intersection of memes! - Andy DeSoto via Bookmarklet

Now that just looks scary...LOL - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

What have my people started?! That is creepy!! - Mona N.

I'm just bein' myself, yo! - Andy DeSoto

Looks like G Lidbury-Tubbs! - pazzer1

Dave Winer posted a link

Social WordPress to Launch in December - Webmonkey

August 8 at 2:05 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Karl, marcel weiss, Divided By Zer0, Nikpay and 50 other people liked this

"During his interview at The Start Conference, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg announced that BuddyPress will be released before the end of the year. Based on the multi-user version of WordPress, BuddyPress has the features we all expect from a social network: friends, profiles, and tasteless photo galleries." - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet

so ning? :) - Jeff Woelker via twhirl

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@Jeff But it's open source (that alone is an advantage) and it's integrated with Wordpress, giving it a potential install base of millions (or at least hundreds of thousands) of blogs that can use the software. - sebmos

And it supports all the common weblog formats and protocols. It's compatible with lots of stuff that social networks typically are not. Tooools. - Dave Winer

As lame as "BuddyPress" sounds, I can actually imagine it becoming the backbone of an open-architecture 'social' web. Cry havoc and let slip the plug-in scripters of war! - Rob Sterling

Sweet. Very interesting - Jason Kaneshiro

now i see the light - Jeff Woelker via twhirl

Seriously folks, check out Elgg: this funtionality is already available for you to host yourself without relying on Ning. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Wow, that's quite interesting! - Daynah

So, speaking of thousands of sites using this, I expect there will be some common method of post and commenting based on something like openid? - Ernie Oporto

Hmm, it'll be interesting to see how much of this they hack into wordpress.com. I imagine people are screaming for this stuff already. :D - Stephen Shores

Igor Poltavskiy posted a link

Stefan Didak's Home Office

August 4 at 5:45 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy, imabonehead, Wally Punsapy, Franklin Pettit and 34 other people liked this

The Dream!:) - Igor Poltavskiy via Bookmarklet

Not the dream, not enough monitors! - Toby Graham

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@Toby How much enough?) - Igor Poltavskiy

The nightmare! - Igor The Troll

wow - Arjun

It beats my "Office" Office ;) - Muthu Ramadoss

@Igor Mix of dream and nightmare - Igor Poltavskiy

Igor when you can see nothing but monitors - Toby Graham

@Toby Probably,monitor wall:) - Igor Poltavskiy

What happens if you turn all that equipment on? The light in the neighborhood dims a little, starts to flicker, then the lights in part of the city go out, and once everything is up and running, the lights slowly come back on again. Some of the systems are always on and are never powered off. - Peter Dawson

all the exposure to that equipment can't be good for one's health. - Cee Bee

@Cee But good for your info health:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I'd be impressed if they were arranged in a perfect square and running a single SSH console session. - Akiva Moskovitz

Igor do not worry for 9.99 we can have a chip implanted in you and you will have sonar vision like the dolphins! You will see 360 degrees and be Super Igor! - Igor The Troll

@Igor Next dream - Igor Poltavskiy

Мну нра. - YaDuMMeR

Whilst I am very jealous, I am not to sure that it would not have been better with just two 30" screens. But then again I am quite productive on a 12" laptop screen. - John Cooper via twhirl

@John + iPhone :) - Igor Poltavskiy

Are you sure this isn't the Cellular Phone Sonar Network in the basement of Wayne Enterprises? - Michael Beck

You need to get out more, son. :-) - Dread Pirate PJ via NoiseRiver

damn! - Orli Yakuel

Igor is not human! He is a software bot! ;-) - Igor The Troll

Wow. That is a cool setup! - Mitchell Tsai

Who pays for the electricity? - Bob

The name Stefan Didak rings a bell from a lot of time ago. Who's the guy? - dario

google.com - Mona N.

www. - Mona N.

http:// - Mona N.

oh yeah, he used to write plugins for 3D Studio! - dario

But how well does it play Solitaire or Minesweeper? - Anthony K Valley

I would be happy with two towers and 4-6 monitors. - Jeff B

LOL and I thought my 4 LCD setup was cool.. This is heaven! - Daynah

WANT. - Stephen Shores via twhirl

Wow! This is indeed "The Dream." - kamla bhatt

screen envy. - Mitchell Tsai

@Stephen WANT is an understatement.. - embee

That setup rocks! I want one like that in my cubicle but I think my employer wouldn't buy into it. - imabonehead

@imabonehead Probably,you need a good business plan for your employer:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Chris Chabot posted a message on Twitter

“Intel: "25% of all internet traffic is social", http://tinyurl.com/5l73kq & Lycos announces OpenSocial support: http://tinyurl.com/6fvu8o”

July 15 at 1:39 am - Link

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Scott Schnaars published a photo on Flickr

Me on My Blog Log

August 4 at 3:09 pm - Link

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Chris Baskind loved a song on Last.fm

The Clash – The Guns of Brixton

July 6 at 8:13 pm - Link

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Todd Sampson posted a message on Twitter

“God I hate business politics, processes, procedures, etc. I just want to make cool shit that makes a difference.”

May 9 at 2:28 pm - Link

engtech, Meryn Stol, Maki, Alex Haar and 10 other people liked this

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

Prashant Agarwal posted a message on Twitter

“Can someone figure out a way to present the tweetmachine feed in playlist format to listen to the songs in a continuous fashion. Thx.”

March 31 at 9:22 am - Link

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Bradley Horowitz published a photo on Flickr

By request...

January 7 at 10:06 pm - Link

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