Jeremy Baines › Likes

How is it? - Robert Scoble

Great! - Jeremy Baines

Hey Robert - it's pretty slick. But could use improvement: 1) no way to refresh home feed for updates/ new posts, 2) only shows a certain # of posts in home feed, 3) like buddy feed, you click a post to see comments/likes. But you also have to do the same on long posts to read the entire post. - Kevin Whalen from email

Cool! I didn't now they had an iPhone app. - Svartling

It gas very good potential but not quite finished yet. - Amy D from Nambu

Also there is no link to an article on Google Reader posts. I agree with Amy, has potential but needs improvement. - Kevin Whalen

I knew it was just a matter of time, for some client to access Friendfeed. Though I am sick of ShoZu, Xumi, Pinger and the like for their poor UI and inability to hold conversations. Let us know how alert thingy works. You've inspired me to go try one more client (Mother Feed) - derikp

Just saw the app yesterday on app store and I am waiting for the reviews. - ashish

Really??? It's only 99c, what have you got to loose :) - Jeremy Baines

This comment is done in AlertThingy FF edition. Hopefully we will get better refresh and ways to like and comment on feeds. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from Alert Thingy

Holding out a bit longer to see which ones will support 3.0's push bit. - Daniel Krech

I will try and find time to fix that! :) - Jeremy Baines

There is also another FriendFeed app due out soon that I was planning on trying: http://friendfeed.com/davidjh... . - Kevin Whalen from email

Amigo is now in app store. - Kevin Whalen

I've only managed to use it once. Its setup for my FF account, but now its not starting. - Roberto Bonini

have your tried restarting the phone? - Jeremy Baines

Tried that already. - Roberto Bonini

Some people are telling me that deleting and reinstalling has worked for them. You might also want to check the setting in settings>alertthingy - Jeremy Baines

Ok. Will try that. Thanks Jeremy. - Roberto Bonini

Appears to work now after a re-install. - Roberto Bonini

Not really. It eats up a lot of system resources on the Old Beast. - Steven Perez

Great :) - Any chance I could bug you for a review or rating (pretty please) - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Jeremy Baines

I gave it 5 stars. Will give a review later :) - Roberto Bonini

I feel it's a good effort, but judging by the standards set by Tweetie and Twitterrific, we could either have a long way to go with this or could see more developers jumping in this untapped area. - Rohit

Thanks for the tip. How do you think it compares to BuddyFeed? - Sterling Zumbrunn

Haven't tried Buddyfeed yet. - Steve Rubel from email

I've used both, and I think Buddyfeed edges it at the moment for features - but AlterThingy is quicker. - Ian Betteridge

Well I love it!! but I am a little biased :) - Jeremy Baines

What's wrong with FF on Safari via the iPhone? - Jason Hansen

can you see your friend lists? - metalerik

Yup! - Jeremy Baines

sweet. one more thing... are the images inline? - metalerik

Nope, but you see an icon telling you which items have images - Jeremy Baines

ok still looks really nice though. I'm going to check it out. Do you have plans to put the images inline? It's one of the major reasons I like FF. - metalerik

Will take a look and what is involved in adding that option when I sit down to dev again :) - Jeremy Baines

no sitting! wait, I mean no standing! Just bought it. It's pretty sweet! It's clean and has a nice small but readable font so more fits on the page. Plus, the images are only one fast tap away. May be the better way to do it (for speed) and later maybe have as a pref? No crashes so far either ;) - metalerik

Looks great but how can you refresh your feed inline? - Rob Enslin from Alert Thingy

Prob should add that in the next release :) - Jeremy Baines

I prefer the FriendFeed iPhone web page to either BuddyFeed or AlertThingy, it shows the post comments inline. Comments are one of the big features of FF, so having to tap tap tap between posts just to read comments is too much tapping. - John Francis

AlertThingy just stopped working for me. It shows it's splash screen then terminates. I have rebooted my iPhone and the problem persists. - John Francis

Some people experiencing this problem are telling me that if you uninstall and reinstall it works. i am looking into this issue, it is only happening for a few people - Jeremy Baines

what's the best iPhone FF app? - Mike Bracco

Will FF ever develop an official app or are they going to leave it up to 3rd parties like this? - Mike Bracco

Mike, I've tried AltertThingy, MotherFeed, BuddyFeed, and Nambu. Each has their strengths and weaknesses -- maybe I should write a mini-review :). - Paul Buchheit

That would be nice :) What turns me off about some of these apps is that it does multiple social networks which usually means compromises in being able to best interface with any one of the social networks. On the desktop front, apps like Seesmic are figuring it out in terms of multiple accounts but I feel the iPhone is behind in terms of a one app for all. So until that happens I'll have the Facebook app for FB and Tweetie for Twitter. - Mike Bracco

FF's iPhone site is pretty good without any third party apps, although I've only tried out MotherFeed. - 321

Paul - Yea, consider doing app reviews.. I'd love to read your take on these FF client apps - Susan Beebe

Sanat, I disagree about the web interface for FF being good. I find it challenging at best. I'd love to see this program developed (refresh and ability to like entries faster) and it'd be good. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I've really only used the iPhone web interface and BuddyFeed, but the one thing I liked about BuddyFeed is the ability to use your photo library when creating posts. That'd be impossible (I think) with a web interface. All the available options are missing the new FriendFeed features like DMing and notifications, but that's a limitation of the available API. - Mark Trapp

Offline viewing and push notifications would be other features, but I don't think any of the native applications offer those just yet. - Mark Trapp

Unfortunately AlertThingy crashes on every start. Even rebooting doesn't help. Interestingly, the first time I launched, it did work. - Lars Trieloff from BuddyFeed

Hey hey! Throughout the app the word "write" is currently "wite" as in the colour. Good app like! - Nicky Colman from Alert Thingy

Tell you what! "wite" me a review and I will fix that ;) - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Jeremy Baines

Downloading now. - Kevin Whalen

This isn't working at all for me - Rob Haas

Ok, uninstall-reinstall worked. Nice. About a couple minutes in and I think this may be my favorite FF iPhone app. If it replaces the iPhone page remains to be seen for me though. - Rob Haas

Not sure if I am missing it, but I can't figure out how to refresh the home feed. - Kevin Whalen

Ok, it doesn't handle more than one image per post (if there is more than one image, none are shown) and Youtube clips arent accessible at all. Back to the web app. - Rob Haas

Most of the friendfeed apps suck. I recently got a promo code from the developer of buddyfeed. It has been the best so far. Otherwise, I just use the web interface. - TheHenry

Writing from AlertThingy. Just clicked the "Wite comment" button. How was that missed? - thinkQuick from Alert Thingy

Hey guys, would really appreciate reviews and comments over at the App Store! :) We really want to spend time making this better. - Jeremy Baines

When I read Alerthingy, I thought there were family of products with that prefix. - ashish