"Yesterday a reader sent us a pretty funny screen capture of a Sears product page with a suspicious category description (see above). By the time we got around to checking it out, Sears had corrected the error. It turns out, however, that the real problem was the Sears website was built in a way that let anyone mess with the category descriptions."
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
from Bookmarklet
Thanks anyway, Kate. I know that your heart, if not your Twitter, was in it.
- GrayFoxD (MJT)
Anything I like here does appear in my Twitter feed, so it will be seen. Not sure what's happening with Twitter, I had the same problem last time it went down, it just wouldn't work for me at all.
- Kate
Twitter appears to be working just fine here. However,I once said that about my car, seconds before it fell apart in the middle of the road.
- GrayFoxD (MJT)
"Chris - I use a screen-capturing tool for Macs called ScreenFlow. It allows me to record from 4 sources at once (eyesight, mic, computer sounds, screen), add additional media (music in this case), edit (zooming, callouts), and publish in any format. Hope that helps!"
- John: @johnhaydon
I'm not sure it works well publicly but if you are one of my GReader followers (you can follow me here: http://www.google.com/reader...) then you can comment and see all comments from your followers here: http://www.google.com/reader... Or you could import the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KolTreg... back into GReader and comment and share that way. What I did for the FF 'lifestream' feed was grab the RSS feed for 'service:friendfeed' seacrh results so to avoid any duplicates. One thing I cannot add is, of course, my GReader Shared Items, but I'm playing around to get that to work... ;-) Oh, if you want more people to follow see this long thread: http://ff.im/6mh5s
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone else tried this? What are your thoughts on Google Reader as a social media site like FriendFeed?
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm curious to see how this goes for you. I'm starting to experiment with some of the social features as well. As for GReader being a social site, I believe the potential is there. One thing Google has in it's favor is that I doubt anyone is going to buy it. I think we can count on it being around for a long time.
- Alex Hellstrom
The Comments View is very confusing. What it needs is AJ's commenting script I use on FF to make it a lot clearer.
- Kol Tregaskes
They are playing catchup at Google Reader it seems. Have just subscribed to your feed Kol (and noticed you reciprocated!).
- Nick B.
It's too confusing. I mean the reader, not your layout, Kol. Maybe, I just need to get used to it. I've just been reading stuff in it for so long... It's hard to find the shared items page. I'm just frustrated.
- Kimber Scott
"Wordpress is easily the best and most robust blogging platform available today. Part of the reason for the success and “staple” status of Wordpress is due to the availability of thousands of plugins that can take your blogging experience from novice to pro overnight."
- Nilesh
from Bookmarklet
"If you’ve been reading some of the previous WordPress-related articles here on Smashing Magazine, you’ll know that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. It can be used as a CMS, too. And WordPress widgets are a powerful tool in your WordPress development arsenal. When you think of WordPress widgets, you may think they’re just a way to rearrange various items in your blog’s sidebar without touching any code. Sure, that’s nice and all, but that’s really just the tip of the iceberg of all the things WordPress widgets can do."
- Nilesh
from Bookmarklet
Actually it would be great if you could just pick all the colors you need.
- Nia
There's a google labs gadget that allows you to pick custom colors. At least, it's there in my google apps.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yep, you can add a labs setting that lets you pick your own.
- Rich
Thank you! I will check that out :))
- Nia
from fftogo
I would like to see some more theme's too. I opened a new Gmail account today, and it seems like they've hardly added any since they first came out. I haven't tried the labels yet.
- Michael Fidler
Right on! Well written. With a bit of edge and plenty of truth!
- Arlene
Brilliant. Even moms can suck too. It comes down to one thing- origin of intent. Either you start with wanting to help others or help yourself. If you get money from it doesn't matter. Real intent shines through any patina of accumulated money.
- Damien Basile
from Nambu
"It has changed the way I consume and share content, and the coolest thing is that Feedly supports the SUP methodology that FriendFeed uses, so that things that you react to on Feedly are immediately posted to your FriendFeed page. You can even “like” and comment right from the application and see the conversations around the posts back on FriendFeed."
- Jorge Escobar
from Bookmarklet
I first became addicted to feedly then I discovered friendfeed. It's a great together, love the way when surfing the web you can see whether a certain page has been discussed or is being discussed on ff.
- Jacob
Jorge, I think Feedly is fantastic. I would absolutely use it if it ran native in Safari. Also, as I like to be "first" to stories, I still tend to use the Google Reader interface and power through. So I am a Feedly fan even if I don't use it every day.
- Louis Gray
I agree, too :) I have not used GReader since I discovered feedly.
- Roberto Bonini
Feedly also helps me to know what to share, as it tells me if a blog post or news article is already being shared by others. At that point I can just 'like' it, instead of cluttering FriendFeed with more repetitive stuff. Love it!
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Jorge. We are indeed very big Friendfeed fans. More integration points soon.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Feedly was the magic bullet that convinced me to switch back from Safari. I really miss Safari's speed, but I can't live without Feedly.
- cecily
Come to think of it, Firefox should invest in them (at least) ;)
- Jorge Escobar
For those of you interested in Chrome and Safari support, please send me an email to edwink@devhd.com and I will see if we can give you early access to something we are working on (Louis you are already on the list)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I like Feedly. It doesn't make me feel bad for not powering through all my GReader posts. It feels more natural somehow: like reading the paper instead of, er, a bunch of RSS feeds.
- David Young
If one is using FriendFeed as one's primary Feed aggregator/filter/reader, is Feedly still necessary?
- Alex Schleber
@Alex I think there is a different need for both. Consuming RSS feeds via a reader is something that some people prefer. I certainly tried to use FF as my reader, but there was something missing.
- Jorge Escobar
I use an love Feedly, I have tried to use FF as my feed aggregator but I agree with Jorge Escobar, there is something missing, maybe its the ability to save for later or the layout, but what ever it is I keep going back to Feedly.
- Kim Landwehr
When you share to FF using feedly, is there a way to make it show the picture?
- Alix Whitmire
any images on the post you share will be post in FriendFeed automatically
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Hmm, I tried that and it didn't work.
- Alix Whitmire
Hi Alix, if you post the description of the problem you are seeing at getsatisfaction/feedly, we can try to help you troubleshoot it.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
works for me... maybe the image on the post you are sharing is not standard
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Sorry...did not see the previous post about what was not working... Yes. to share a picture, before you click on the friendfeed share, ALT+click on the image you want to share. This will create an annotation using that image. Then click on the friendfeed share icon. Similarly, you can highlight snippets of texts and click on annotation in the popup menu. (We are working on making this a little more intuitive)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I used Google Reader but never cared for it. Then I found Feedly and I love it! Thanks Edwin, I did not know myself how to share a picture in a story.
- Bonnie Foster
I love feedly, and the only reason I still open Firefox is to use it. I can't wait until they have an addon for Chrome!
- Michael Fidler
When I used to use Firefox, Feedly was essential. Now I use Safari so no more Feedly for me.
- Akiva Moskovitz
After installed, my GMarks stop working. I had to uninstall it. :(
- Burçak Çubukçu
Burçak Çubukçu: you are correct. There are incompatibilities with gmarks.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
That's some good news Edwin. now I feel more compelled to use FF (Firefox not friendfeed) quote: "Then click on the friendfeed share icon. Similarly, you can highlight snippets of texts and click on annotation in the popup menu. (We are working on making this a little more intuitive)"
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
at this point yes, Rasheen. Chrome version is under development, though.
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Somehow feedly isn't reading my Google Alerts feeds correctly from the latest tabs. How can I fix that?
- Amani
LOVING feedly. But how does it decide which FF conversation to link to when it says "join the conversation." Also, is there a way to share on FF from the feedly mini thing?
- Ted Roden
Jorge, thanks for highlighting this wonderful Feedly feature. I tried using it and gave it up, and now realize that I didn't really use the Friendfeed integration at all. Sigh! (Back to installing Feedly)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Edwin, any reason why my saved items page never loads anymore? Its been like this for about 3 days now.
- Amani