FriendFeed is one feature short of being perfect for me. That feature is being able to split one's feed into several, so that people can subscribe to just the part of my activity they're interested in. I'd have one with only high-quality, serious stuff, and one with everything.
This would make it easy to filter out all the trivial and personal stuff you're not interested in. Everyone interested in some field, like philosophy, could then split their philosophy postings into a separate feed, and get read by a lot more people, as one doesn't risk being flooded by uninteresting stuff when subscribing.
- Gorm
It might be good to use tags to categorize one's entries.
- Philip Lei
@Rob, current FriendFeed "filters" pick out only one feed at a time, that's not good enough.
- Gorm
@Philip, I don't know how or if that's possible to do with every feed, but in any case, it seems like a lot of work.
- Gorm
Like Rob said "Filters". It's just that there's no HOW-TO page yet to customize feeds to the level you require, for beginners to filter/search. Here's a room about filters which is just catching on - http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- vijay
Vijay, filters are okay, but what I'd like to see is something else. Call it "aspects". Some are interested in just my philosophical aspect, others my mundane and personal aspect. As for me, I'd love it if everyone set up aspect feeds where they filter out the less serious stuff for me, so that I don't have use my time reading things just to ignore them. I think everyone would benefit from such an aspect system.
- Gorm
"Categories" sound mutually exclusive. I think "aspect" is better, because it is intuitive to think that aspects relate to one another like circles in a Euler diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) or something. At least, that's how I associate.
- Gorm
Is this room the only place to give feedback? I'd like to push this issue further if I can. Hate to see it just drown in the stream.
- Gorm
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jlt-janet suggested I play around with some hair products, so I did. 1.) Pre-humiliation Jim. 2.) Stuck up Jim. 3.) Combover (or Satch) Jim 4.) Hannibal Lecter Jim. 5.) Winged Victory Jim and 6.) I Dunno What the Hell This Is Jim.
Okay, so is it weird to say that this series of photos reminds me of Hank Azaria? (Also: can't wait to see him in Night at the Museum 2.)
- Ladyepiphanybug
Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me! :-) I like Hank Azaria. He's cute and hilariously funny. Will never forget him in Mystery Men. And he does, like, half the voices on the Simpsons.
- Ladyepiphanybug
see, when I think of Hank Azaria, I think of his one scene in Heat where Pacino questions him about his relationship with the character played by Ashley Judd. You should watch that scene, cause I'm not gonna repeat it here.
- Vicarbott
Hmm.... don't think I've seen Heat, actually. I'll have to do some googling. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
Heh. Pleased to see these pix near the top of the feed again. O HAI, JIM!
- LB shining
oh, Trish! Say it ain't so! I was fearing that someone would pick up the Mr. Bean connection. I've heard that before. Many, many times. "Et tu Haley? then fall Jannotti!"
- Vicarbott
huh... my comment bumped it back up, not that I wanted it bumped. Wait! What?
- Vicarbott
from IM
Wow, drama much Jim? For the record, you're way cuter than Mr. Bean...
- Trish Haley
"Google Squared, the service that automatically generates lists of entities and associated attributes, is now live. "Google Squared is a new way of organizing information on the Web to make it more useful and structured," explains Google. For example, if you search for [African countries], Google Squared generates a list of countries, then it finds attributes that should be appropriate when you describe a country (capital, currency, image/map) and it tries to find values for the attributes. Google Squared shows only the first 7 results, but you can always add new results and even new attributes. Clicking on the first blank column, Google Squared suggests 5 new columns: area, religion, language, GDP and Internet users."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
Star Wars > Star Trek. Waaaaay more fun to act out as a child.
- Amy
It's a toss-up these days. Pre-prequels, I'd give the edge to Star Wars - but man, Jar-Jar makes it *really* hard to say that these days... :)
- Thomas
@Thomas The prequels just don't count. At all! :)
- Amy
If we're going to selectively remove the bad from Star Wars, I think it's only fair we lose Star Trek V and Voyager... :)
- Thomas
Star Wars for sure. No contest. It's all about the magic of TPM release day, the memories (for you older folks) of childhood lightsaber fights as Luke and Vader, and the wonder in a child's eye at seeing a new episode of The Clone Wars. What have YOU got, Star Trek?
- Eric Geller
Simple: action figures, model starships, pretending to be Captain Kirk traversing rocky terrains and PEW PEW ing at make believe Klingons, and trying my damndest to give a proper Vulcan salute.
- Mike Nayyar
also Technology that isn't designed with flaws ;)
- Fee501st
Hmm...I did spend hours prefecting the vulcan salute as a child. :) As far as I'm concerned, they both have their merits but it's mostly sentimental. I have friends who refuse to watch EITHER - amazing what 'damage' not having seen any scifi when young does.
- Amy
Live long and prosper, young padawan. Always two there are, a vulcan and a human. :)
- Marcel de Jong
Once we added on FF all our friends that are on twitter (even those who aren't on FF, with imaginary friends), why use the website of twitter ? Is there some people that use both ? Why ? (I think i'm missing something with all these social interactions :)
fwed, Ping.fm allows you to post to multiple micro-blogging services not just FF. I use it to post to Twitter and several other sites. I wish, though, hat FF supported both Hellotxt and Ping.fm. Both have APIs and you are already able to use them on the likes of Twitterfeeds.
- Kol Tregaskes
It takes a little figuring out to get the gazintas and gazoutas aligned to eliminate dupes, but once it's set up properly it's pretty cool.
- Alan Chamberlain
I've just added FriendFeed as my RSS reader and in the process of ditching Google Reader. If FF supported Hellotxt/Ping.fm then it would be wipe out those Chrome tabs. Then if it allowed us to bulk import our Twitter (non-FF) friends then it would be my Twitter client. Gosh, if it was a "wave" it would be my email client. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, FF is actually becoming kind of an email client for me, and for the small part of my "pals" who joined a private goup of mine on friendfeed. "Direct message" functionnality is cool for that reason : if he's around, he'll be notified. If he's not, he'll receive a regular email. I guess some not-so-far-from-now day, the term "mail" will be deprecated, and we'll talk about "messages", or, better "flows", "streams"... "Did you get my stream?"...
- Zackatoustra
Agree. I'm relatively new to social media but find FriendFeed offers me the most value, so that's where I find myself focusing. Must be something here. I'd be very interested to hear your analysis of FF after a while.
- Hamilton Wallace
Zackatoustra, if only I could get all my friends onto FF or FF allowed for non-FFers to use my FF email (koltregaskes@friendfeed.com) to email me. Or perhaps I could set up a forwarding rule that posts everything to me to go to the ff.com address, hmmm.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ah yes, forward an email to your ff.com address only gives you the subject name and no content apart from perhaps your signature that was added after the forward. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I love using FF as my main "Social App", but I found it difficult to replace Google Reader.
- Shawn Hickman
Kevin, so you are auto-forwarding them? I'll try it in Gmail.
- Kol Tregaskes
I felt like I was missing too many stories. In Google Reader I can easily see what I read and what I didn't. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them because I love FF
- Shawn Hickman
interested to know exactly what this looks like for you Steve. Would make a good blog post.
- Thomas Hawk
You've discovered The Secret - good to see you
- Jesse Stay
Shawn, no good points. I tend to make the last one by liking it, that way when I check the groups again I can see where I go to before.
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's a tip, why not forward to new FF subscribers and invites to your DM? Just set it up now and will see if it works (all you need is the link to the user's page).
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I've tried the solution you suggests(forwarding mails) , but that doesn't work : the "non-FFers" receive an annoying message each time their mail is fwed to FF : "Hello, Your email message to FriendFeed (included below) was sent from an unauthorized email address (<non-FFer>@gmail.com) and requires approval. Please click on the link below to approve or reject this message. http://friendfeed.com/approve....
- Zackatoustra
Zackatoustra, I never said it worked, I said I wish it did. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It would be a great feature but of course it will open FF up to spam email.
- Kol Tregaskes
Couldn't agree more w Steve. Moving back in that direction again too
- Charlie Anzman
What about Google Wave and FriendFeed integration? (Assuming Wave arrives soon)
- Tyson Key
Is anyone aware of a primer on this topic? I am not a FF power user
- Bob
I just started doing this a couple of weeks ago and so far so good. Definitely agree its tools are underrated.
- Mike Elliott
I wish Friendfeed had much more powerful features and tools for managing large research collections -- but it seems to be focusing on the conversational aspects of social media on its current development path.
- Sean McBride
converted blog embeds into ff embed. they load faster
- NoahDavidSimon
My 2 cents - I am a mum of 3 kids, 1 boy 2 girls ... I love them. More than anything in the world. And all I hope for them is to be healthy, happy and to eventually find someone that they love. Opposite sex, same sex, rich, poor ... who cares? So long as they find love.
Fine, that happens a lot (and not due to "anonymity" as you claim, because we all are pseudonymous at best here, but because of netizens' inability to hold a civilized impersonal discourse) – but let us then not forget the ego-drama queens who cry wolf in lieu of a better argument. BTW. claims of "being offended" sadly seem to be the new method for playing a victim, and are not confined to any one culture.
- ianf ⌘
The main point is - people who insult others through comments online tend to utilize less of a personal filter than if they were to insult others face-to-face. I think that's unfortunate.
- Nathan Chase
Well, Nathan, since you indirectly aspire to be an arbiter of verbal offense - would you say that telling someone who addresses you per "calm down" and "peace kids" that you "already had a mother. One was enough" is offensive per se (actually "rude" was the charge used; or maybe it was an attack on the Motherhood itself, I dunno). Be specific.
- ianf ⌘
ianf - I disagree; I'd bet that the more anonymous one is, the more willing one is to forgo civility (since crudeness has a social cost). You're right that we're "anonymous" relative to our real life personae, but you have a *new*, online community that knows and likes "ianf." To the extent that ianf as a handle is meaningful to you, you won't want to tarnish it with those same costs of incivility.
- Jeremy Thompson
I don't get the "I'm offended" thing, either. I think it's annoying and overplayed. But that's not really Nathan's angle here, the way I'm reading it. It's possible for him to dislike the motivations and actions of anonymous instigators without playing the "offended" card.
- Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy, you are of course aware, that neither of our arguments can be proven beyond reasonable doubt. All I'm trying to say, is that Nathan's chief offense culprit of "anonymity" misses the mark, because (to take just a simple example) while your nick of "Jeremy Thompson" may be full of meaning and truth to you, to others it may just as well be a made-up label for your online...
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- ianf ⌘
can't agree more guys - I for one merged my online/offline yrs ago and think those who interact anonymously are suspect
- mike "glemak" dunn
mike, prove to us now that » mike "glemak" dunn « is not a pseudonym ;-)) No, you don't have to prove anything, but then perhaps your argument is moot.
- ianf ⌘
I wish I could "Like" this at least once a day.
- Nakachi
Ooh, tough. I'd take Fellowship over either of the others, but between Two Towers and RotK? I honestly think I'd take Two Towers, just because RoTK infuriated me so much with its multiple endings. But I'm likely to get into it with Akiva again if I don't stop now. :p
- Jandy
I never did like the LOTR movies, but I saw them out of geek obligation. RotK was the least enjoyable, because I saw it for free (yay) but in a theater with broken A/C. Overheating + an overlong movie with a ton of fake endings = a grudge I still haven't forgotten.
- Andrew C (✓)
Absolutely no idea. LOTS trio all blend into one for me.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kernel panic...... but Two Towers by a hair.
- Roberto Bonini
So it seems to me it stays static until you click on either one or reload the page. Is that a choice? Does it matter? Does anyone else find they get a reaction to the cursor going to the pokey index finger when you place it over one or the other?
- moon_shadow70
Yeah, I follow plenty of people who post only links and photos in their Twitter accounts and Tumblr seems so much better suited for that purpose.
- Rob H.
It is also good for stuff that isn't really long but stays to a similar theme. Have a few. One is just for random weird crap seen on the net that I give to my bored friends who aren't hipped to FF.
- The Amber
I have never understood why tumblr isn't more popular. I have the most fun with my tumblog
- Rick Powell
Why hello, Rick. Nice to meet you. TOTALLY diggin your profile picture and checkin' out your Tumblr now :)
- Mona Nomura
"In fact, the reason Wave is being released in the way it is right now -- as an early developer-only experience -- is to encourage programmers to write extensions to it. The e-mail gateway is particularly critical, and Google may develop it itself. Without it, Wave is yet another new communications medium that will have a hard time getting off the ground since it duplicates many capabilities people are already accustomed to. Wave is technically a radical departure from e-mail, but for the end users it will still be used for a lot of the same things e-mail is." - Yes, it's another Wave hands-on report. But the difference in this one is the realistic conclusion reached: as radical as Wave is, it will need links to email and other services long before it overtakes them
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Ah, the old Coles fraternity. I don't miss it...
- Joshua Nunn
I don't miss it either ... except for the bit where I was the only girl in my department. Good times ... LOL
- Penny
I was a Big W boy myself - 5 years I worked there! Man that was a long time ago
- Glenn Slaven
Penny, which dept did you work in? My mum's first job was also at Coles, in Fruit & Veg, she had to plastic wrap all the stuff (whilst burning herself in the process) but her friend got to stand outside and weigh all the produce
- Bryce Roney