Shawn, almost everybody is there right now. Now, I go over the ground like a magnet getting black sand and pull you up. :-) - Louis Gray
About half way through the new FF curve (Decided the do the revisit Facebook thing today instead) but definitely a dramatic improvement now that there's lots more people here. Wait, does that say Techie?? - Charlie Anzman
"Popular, brand-name users"? What are those? I thought this was FRIENDFeed, not FanClubFeed. - Avdi Grimm
I suppose this is inevitable and an almost must-do for folks with too many follows. Even though I only subscribe to about 90+ folks here, I can feel the noise creeping in at times too, and have wondered if I should use the lists more proactively. But like cleaning up an inbox, it would take time to do it.. Well, at least I have one list right now - a list of all my colleagues. And, I think you have a good process there in sorting your follows. - Winston Teo
Avdi, the idea is as it says, to take the high traffic out and better reveal those who need more attention. Anybody here will say I treat A-List and Z-List the same... - Louis Gray
I'm updating my lists as a I go along. I'm basically on the main feed, and my lists Awesome Pix and Enterprise 2.0 a lot. Will continue to refine these over time. - Hutch Carpenter
My problem is that everyone posts on many topics, so I can't sort by the genre of the users posts. All of my subscriptions are people I know ONLY on friendfeed, so I can't sort them by source of contact. They're all on at random times of the day or night, so I can't sort them by apparent location. All I have is my home feed, a list for the ones my stats say I find interesting, and a list for the ones my stats say are interested in me. Any tips? - Slippy Lane
Slippy, you need to recruit your real-world friends into FriendFeed. - Ernie Oporto
lol, -1 for assuming I have real-world friends - Slippy Lane
i love the lists, give me access to much more info quicker - MG Siegler
Louis, excellent post as I happily find each time I read your blog! :) This list concept is really a great feature of FF and I am glad you're liking it. I need to fine tune mine some more... but it really does help deliver the best content to me and I am incredibly grateful for the filtering this provides...very neat! Thanks! - Susan Beebe
"At work and at home, I file all my e-mail. For example, I have top level folders for "Personal", "Family", "Commerce", and "Blog", and thinking of people on FriendFeed the same way isn't that much of a stretch." I never thought about it quite that way before. Nice post. Thanks - Roberto Bonini
I am thrilled that FF offered the list functionality, but as a result, I've found myself looking at my "favorites" list 95% of the time and the other lists 5% of the time, so it's almost the equivalent to unsubscribing from most of my list. Then again, maybe that's not a bad thing. It avoids hurt feelings, it gives me an out, and I feel less drowned. - Adam Lasnik
cute!! LOL - Louis you are really dedicated!! - Susan Beebe
amazing what something new will make us geeks do :) - (jeff)isageek
You're more man than I, Louis. It's the little things, like the Recycle Bin. Fellas, it's Trash, okay? If you wanna be Green there are other places to get all jiggy. - Marko
about time, nothing against those I follow, nothing against those that follow me, but reducing the noise to signal ratio if important, this will help. - dan
Haven't tried this yet. but what I'd like is a watch window/pane where i tag a comment thread to watch. That way its easier to keep in touch with the dsicussion. - Roberto Bonini
Resisting the urge to pull a Russian Reversal joke here... - Voyagerfan5761
I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson
Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय
This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman
OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind
I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz
Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda
@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao
you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern
@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen
Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen
I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac
Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind
can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable
We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk
Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya
awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk
thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons
like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok
We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page. - Selim Yoruk
So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference. - Martin Añazco
At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1 - Slippy Lane
Hopefully the Greasemonkey scripts I have installed will work with it. - Steven M. Cohen
I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P - Patrick Lightbody
It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho! - Justin Long
FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team. - Russellreno
@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp. - Dan Hsiao
yah, it's back! Kyle, Toluu is an RSS feed list and discovery service. It's great for seeing what feeds your friends are subscribed to, and getting suggestions based off of your feed picks - http://www.toluu.com/faq - Tim Hoeck
Now I want to see a post on how these fans are engaged after they click "become a fan." Are the post popular pages the result of people wanting to associate themselves with certain brands or the result of people really thinking the updates, content and conversation from these brands on Facebook adds a ton of value for them. - Amanda Mooney
me too - i'm starting to like the new format a lot - more people are posting content, more people are commenting, and the filtering allows me to digest more information from friends than i could in the past - it's getting more and more interesting jumping over there during the day - Kevin
Same here. Allowing comments on the Status updates is the catalyst for me. - Mike Doeff
Facebook is the true social network...it looks clean, works seamlessly and more people are joining in. It's my hub. - Miguel Albano
Using it, well no but certainly sharing more to it. I have been adding any photographers I can find on FB but that's it atm - Kol Tregaskes
my 2 aunts who are like 60+ years old are on FB. I just closed my account after finding out. - Mark L via twhirl
Yes. Seems to be more actual communication, less game-playing and showing off. - Timothy B. Taylor
I've never stopped, love FB. Have definitely noticed a downturn in the annoying apps spam though which I appreciate. - Kate
Nope. Not into limiting myself to intranets. I really don't get it.! - Steve 'Chippy' Paine
Nope...I was huge into playing a lot of the racing games for six months, but got bored with that, so now I'm using Facebook rarely. Doing a lot more friendfeed. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Nope. The death of Scrabulous has confused my less techie relatives, who dislike the Scrabble alternative, so games have dried up. - Louis Gray
mainly use its as an 'outpost' (great term of Chris Brogan); as a content aggregator. Indeed, the new user interface is much more agreable! - Jeroen De Miranda
After a long lull, I am suddenly getting a hell of alot of emails from FB requests and notifications, forcing me to use it more. More than autofeeding is more. - Michael W. May via twhirl
Less for me though. I'm just there to play games with friends. - Carolyn
we can check out at FB Steve, but tell us how in a blog post - we're still following you. ;) - Kevin OKeefe
Yes, the new design makes it much easier - you should give it a try if you haven't already. The filtering is much better than FriendFeed's, but it's more about people and not news - Jesse Stay
i stiilllllll cannot go there, have an account, that's it ... something doesn't feel right, like it is a front for something shady, not literally, metaphorically - Gregory Lent
I just joined this week. Late to that arena. Turns out that a lot more of the folks that I have made friends with in my travels over the past 18yrs can be found there. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Love the new design. Always been a big user of it though. It's my main social portal. - Rob Record
yes, although I am resisting, I'm finding myself checking it again - Ivan Pope via twhirl
I got dragged in to play scrabble.. thats the only reason that I am there - Peter Dawson
My facebook use has become somewhat sporadic. I prefer Friendfeed for now. - Mattb4rd
agreed, except my 1400 facebook inmails late and their inmails management that still sux so bad don t you think Steve? - Loic Le Meur
I just realized that a bunch of my friends used it so I am trying to friend them - Chacha
I am using it less than ever since becoming a friendfeed fanatic. I might play a game or two on there once in awhile, but I can't get any real networking done there. - Laura Norvig
Well it's great to see some support for the site...it's been nothing but negative talk for a while now, which frankly I don't understand. - Zee at WeDoCreative
FB is great for storing stuff and for keeping in touch with friends who only use facebook, as well as with friends who network over a wider range of platforms. The games are a distraction. I have found a surprising, diverse number of old and new friends are using facebook. - Chris Loft
Yeah ever since I joined Twitter and Friend Feed I haven't really been on facebook. - Sheraz Mahmood via twhirl
I'm finding the same thing ... seems my real-world friends have woken up to and have pulled me back it. It's great to actually connect with people there - something I honestly was not doing at all for a very long time. - Jonathan Greene
AWESOME video. Just started walking & running this past week after not having exercised in many, many years. Bought the Nike+ sportband and have been using that for motivation. Is there a runners room on FF? - Robert DeBord
Cyling, much less stress on the knees and joints. I try to do one or more 2-3 hr rides a week switching between road rides and mountain biking. It is one of the greatest stress relievers I have found. - Dave Ploch
Strength training one hour a day during the week; running (high intensity interval training or distance) once or twice a week; occasional tennis and bike riding. - Michael Gianasi
Loic, I started running! Training for my first 5k on Oct 4th! Joined a running club and I have a personal trainer. She has me doing some core exercises too, to strengthen my mid section. I did my first two miles outside today, which is a big accomplishment for me. I'm more of a cyclist. - Christine Cavalier
I'm also into cycling, mainly mountain biking. I like it much more than running. Why? It's faster, it's more action-loaded and challenging, better for your knees and joints etc. And if you are into gadgets - well, there are lots of them. Try it, mountain biking is a lot of fun. - Winfried Hoffmann
Stationary bike. Watching the Olympics not good for morale though! - Kate Foy
the entire world is a gym, so many things to push and pull on, yoga it is the best, add bit of cardio. it is just attention that does it, really. the action follows the attention - Gregory Lent
I just heard about an olympic champion that is also 1m92 height and his weight is 88kgs. I am 103 kgs for the same height so I am just a pig. - Loic Le Meur
just surfing again and again. Broking some boads sometimes too. Jogging in winter for big sets. - Yann Leroux via twhirl
Oscar Wilde: "Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris." - Baard Overgaard Hansen
What I would like to see is a way to surface items from me that others have commented on. I knowthis shows up on the friends page but sometimes I just want to see if there's a conversation I should look in on. - Jauder Ho via twhirl
A tab on twirl which did this would be fantastic. - Stu Andrews via twhirl
Also remember you can view just about any page on FriendFeed in rss format. With Google Reader, you would never have to visit the FriendFeed website to keep track
of your friends updates. - Mike Fruchter
Yuvi points out this is only good for your last 900 likes only. You should be able to bypass that limit, by importing your likes rss feed into Google Reader. - Mike Fruchter
@Mike - But that's a hack! :) I really do hope they fix that in the new supposed 'beta' - Yuvi
Love this introduction Bernard. I agree that there is a whole lot of opportunity and restructuring that's going to occur. It happens more slowly at the enterprise level. Embedded systems and processes are not as easy to switch as a consumer going from Twitter to Identi.ca.
Having worked in big companies, I understand the opportunities that are missed. They either haven't had good ways of tapping into and socializing a wider view of what their employees know, or they haven't wanted to.
Looking forward to these posts, I'm subscribing. - Hutch Carpenter via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Great list and now clipped to evernote!! - Mel.Buckpitt
NOTE: Tons of bad links in the original article (4/13 of links were bad so far). Jimmy needs to test his article posts. I'm adding correct links as I find them (and sub-links to interesting items on linked pages) in my FF/Del.icio.us comments at http://friendfeed.com/e/6abc29... - Mitchell Tsai
"But now we have about 160 programmers, so I mostly do reviews of products and algorithms. ... And even though there’ll be more and more machines, our present thinking is that we won’t have to increase the size of our development groups, because we’ll simply be making programs that sell in larger quantities. We can get a very large amount of software revenue and still keep the company not dramatically larger than what we have today. That means we can know everybody and talk and share tools and maintain a high level of quality." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
That sounds like a good plan to become the richest man in the world. - Russellreno
great interview of Microsoft's Bill Gates in the early days... fascinating to read about the success factors in retrospect! - Jeroen De Miranda
