There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
I currently own the Nokia N96 and have been a Nokia use since they came out but I've had so many issues with this phone I've pretty much given up on them and looking to get a Android phone, possibly the HTC Desire.
- Kol Tregaskes
I currently have the OG iPhone and I'll get the next iPhone.
- Aaron Hood
from iPhone
T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). Eyeing a Nexus One, if the price goes down thanks to two U.S. carriers deciding not to offer it.
- rowlikeagirl
G1 and eyeing the nexus one just like rowlikeagirl
- Holden Page
I've got RIM blackberry 9700.
- takmaz
from fftogo
Sprint Touch Pro 2. I will probably buy the HTC Evo, but I'm going to wait and see if the 4G coverage gets better by the end of the year. The Sprint representatives I spoke with at a tech expo I went to on Thursday, said that they will be covering more than half the nation with 4G by the end of 2010.
- David Cook
from fftogo
Nokia N97 Mini right now. Since my contract won't run out for another 18 months and technology moves so fast I've no idea what I'll be after next yet but possibly the newest Nokia or something running Android.
- Mark H
Mike, I'd be interested to hear what you think of the HTC Incredible when you get it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, rowlikeagirl. :-) The HTC Desire is basically the exact same machine as the Google Nexus One, so might be worth looking at that too if possible.
- Kol Tregaskes
David, the EVO looks good but I hear from websites that it's not coming to the UK/Europe but from a friend (who a complete mobile phone nerd) that it is coming here. Is it better than the HTC Desire?
- Kol Tregaskes
Mark, the N97 was on top of my list until I started to open my mind to another OS. The Android phones look superior atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
I currently own an LG Shine and have an iPhone 3G from work. Although my Shine will be eligible for upgrade in about a month, I'm planning to wait until around November when the new Windows Phone 7 handsets start to come out for AT&T and upgrade to one of those. I have no idea what will happen when my iPhone is available for upgrade. Don't know if they'll want me to stick with the one I've got or offer me a new iPhone.
- Curdy G
currently have a blackberry, but looking at getting a phone with Android on it next time.
- Harold
I have a Blackberry Tour and seriously considering getting the Sprint EVO in a few weeks. Not sure I'll be able to live without a keyboard though.
- Vaughn
Vaughn, that's my main concern too. I've wanted a keyboard phone since they came out but really want a Android phone too and HTC do not have a Android keyboard phone. There is the Motorola (I think it's the Motorola) but it looks a pretty average phone. I think I might just go for it and go with a touchscreen keyboard.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, the Droid has a keyboard and is Android-based.
- Anika
T-Mobile G1. Waiting for my contract to expire and am looking at the EVO or something better that comes out by then :)
- imabonehead
HTC Droid Incredible, iPhone 3G (for sale), and Blackberry Curve (company issue).
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Anika, that's probably the one I'm thinking of, checked all those out, still prefer the HTC phones atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
Have the 3GS and all it's previous incarnations, but may go to Android for my next one instead of the next iPhone. Just fancy a change really. I work at Nokia currently and i've played with most of their handsets including the new N8 and I'd say leave well alone as although the spec is impressive, the UI is horrendous. New Meego based handsets later in the year are looking good tho.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
The potential HTC Vision might be interesting. A HTC Desire with a keyboard.
- Kol Tregaskes
I can't remember. Since I started wearing this rubber band around my head to hold my cellphone in place, I can't remember anything! Also, my brain feels numb!
- Mark J Severely Inert
EVO is the best android platform by far, but I believe it's CMDA only so no UK release.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Keith, supposedly the UK will get some sort of equivalent phone (according to my mobile phone nerdy friend) but I cannot find anything about that.
- Kol Tregaskes
"Steven Gerrard has vowed that his focus will be only on England during the World Cup and not his Liverpool future. The midfielder goes into the finals in South Africa amid speculation about his Anfield career - just as he did four years ago at Germany 2006. "Yes I was distracted then. I was going back to my hotel room and driving myself mad," said the 29-year-old. "This time round I won't make the same mistake. I guarantee everyone my focus is on doing well for England." Gerrard is also aware that this summer's tournament may represent one of his last chances to win something with England, and he is determined to maximise the opportunity."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
He's going nowhere. LFC is in his blood, and let's be fair, after the season he's had, he owes us.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
if only you could bold an announcement in FF like you can in Wave :D [oh, and my username on Wave is the splendiforously original "adamlasnik"]
- Adam Lasnik
Guys, please read the title and the first comment. This is not a request for invites. This is for users who already have an account and want to share their account name. For invites see this thread: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
My Wave ID is erier2003@googlewave.com. Feel free to add me and we can Wave!
- Eric Geller
Still don't really know what this is (Or Google Voice for that matter). This is like high school all over again. The cool kids are ignoring me!
- James Ferguson
i'm with the google wave woudl be really cool, if i had people to wave at crowd. jviddy@googlewave.com
- Jamie Vidamour
Everyone, read the title and first comment. This is NOT an invite thread!
- Kol Tregaskes
my plan didn't work. still trolling for an invite at dzinrgeek@gmail.com
- amarquart
Blimey. I must be going mad, is it not clear that this is NOT an invite thread. For invites see here: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
Not sure if anyone else woudl find it useful, i'm going to add a load of you as friends and create a wave just to try stuff out in. Feel free to remove yourself from the wave or use it as you feel. Also feel free to add anyone else you think might want to be in on it
- Jamie Vidamour
Shockingly, I am robdiana@googlewave.com
- Rob Diana
Kamilah, you are kamilah.gill. You can find this if you click on yourself in the Contacts sidebar. You address (like everyone) is shown there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Karoli: is that your google wave nick or are you sniffling? :)
- Ahsan Ali
I'm sniffling because I don't have a google wave nick. Despite two invites, there is still nothing in my inbox. I am not in with the in crowd. :(
- Karoli
<- Waves hello! :) I'm at holger.eilhard@googlewave.com
- Holger Eilhard
hello holger, can you pls send me invite? fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com
- mfatih
Invite came today! I'm jalada@googlewave.com. As part of the second/third 'Wave' of people getting invites looks like I don't get any to share out.
- Jalada
M Fatih Kurtoglu: Sorry, I don't yet have any nominations to give out...
- Holger Eilhard
Hey, I'm in too ! :)) tagyboy@googlewave.com
- fwed
Just got my invite this morning as well. FF embed seems to be working fine. I've tried the Wolfram Alpha robot but didn't get it to work yet.
- François Dongier
librarysupporter@googlewave.com in my wave. :)
- MLx
Glad to see more and more people getting in. What we're waiting for is proper group support (a few weeks hopefully) then let the games begin! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone have a spare google wave invite to send to me? email me at zaldor at gmail ! TY!
- Les Zaldor
that is a test from the wave that has this thread embedded.
- Nathalie
I will as soon as I get one WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
- Martha
banane@googlewave.com <-- writing this from wave. neat!
- anna sauce
marco.nunez@googlewave - FINALLY! like i said on twitter - i feel like the kid who got a nintendo 1 christmas too late when everyone had already beaten super mario bros!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
denise.straessler@googlewave - stupid me had no idea i wouldn't be able to select a different name .....
- denise
Wow. Thanks Kol!!! Here's mine for all ya'll to add - walt.ruppar@googlewave.com - although I just added like 150 of the above. While also deleting my pity pleads for an invite... ;-)
- JR
I know, but you know what I mean. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
You'd hope this will pave way for more options on who will finally go to Number 10 though.
- Kol Tregaskes
So the upshot of this, assuming they do a deal with the LibDems is that we will probably end up with yet another Prime Minister that we didn't actually vote for.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Well we kinda didn't vote for anyone in particular anyway. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I was thinking the same thing, David Miliband, urgh...i want someone from old Labour!!!
- Halil
WoH, that would be utterly awful! Imagine Mandy as the leader!
- Kol Tregaskes
@WorldofHiglet who else did you think was running the country, Brown ended up his puppet!
- Halil
Kol: only in my worst nightmares! Halil: I am sure you are right - how did he manage to weasel his way back?? I couldn't believe they had let him back in - that was the time I knew it was all over for New Labour
- WoH: Minding her Botts
He was let back in because Brown was unable to hold the party together, so Mandy was brought back the only they could as a peer! Dont forget they were a lot of angry Labour MPs over Browns coronation.
- Halil
She has no power, she cant even choose our PM anymore, the last monarch to do so was Victoria, as she introduced more powers to government, unless im wrong. I remember one rumour being in part to the fact that she had little trust in her sons judgment, Edward VII. But don't quote me on that.
- Halil
Well the Queen could say no to anyone who goes to her to ask to govern the country in theory. But I doubt she would.
- Kol Tregaskes
lol, im sure she says that under her breath anyway, haha
- Halil
If Her Majesty did that, it would spark an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the likes of which no one has seen in the current form of government.
- Roberto Bonini
Essentially, the UK government is held whether with duct tape and bailing wire. It requires the assent of the monarch to work at all. The law doesn't allow for the possibility of anything other than that (as I understand it).
- Roberto Bonini
Do you think Brown will eventually step down as MP as well?
- Halil
No, he'll be sticking around though might take a loooong break. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
That's precisely the constitutional crisis. What party wants to be seen as sacking the country's beloved monarch?
- Roberto Bonini
Although many talk about it, no one would take that action, they'd essentially be signing their political death warrant.
- Halil
Precisely. So we're back where we started.
- Roberto Bonini
I didn't know that Cameron has upped his offer to the Lib Dems and offered them a referendum on voting and a full blown coalition. And that Brown has offered an automatic change to the voting system! They are getting desperate!
- Kol Tregaskes
"FriendFeed, a site where users can aggregate their social networks and communicate in real-time, has become something like a forgotten stepchild after Facebook acquired the company last year. As one of a dwindling number of users, I felt pretty confident that the site would get taken down eventually, but apparently there are no plans for a shutdown. At the time of the acquisition, FriendFeed said there were no immediate plans to shut the site down, even as the team turned its attention to Facebook. But the news was so fresh that plans still seemed up-in-the-air. Cofounder Bret Taylor, who is now Facebook’s director of product, was asked about FriendFeed at Facebook’s developer conference f8 today, and he reaffirmed that even though Facebook isn’t devoting any resources to developing or improving the service, there are no plans to take FriendFeed down. “For all two of you out there, thank you, FriendFeed users,” Taylor said."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I just want to know if this thing is going to be like Friendfeed and do I want to do all of this stuff out my email? Also what are they going to do with Reader?
- Michelle
I swear I saw this same broadcast awhile ago... some guy named Brett, or something like that..... I think the service was called FriendFace or something?
- Joshua
I only know 10% of my Twitter friends' e-mail addresses - and vice-versa - privacy here looks poor
- Ankush Narula
oh... yeah... I think @ uses Google Profile, not email
- Ken Sheppardson
FF guys are watching this and saying HOLY CRAP! It's Friendfeed 1.5!
- Mark
Does collapsing the "bad buzz" happen automatically?
- Andrew Terry
The whole point of FF for me is that I didn't have to give out my email address
- Glenn Slaven
Sweet, Google got the @ syntax exactly right, in my opinion. Unlike twitter's approach, this method allows for a decentralized user namespace.
- Mason Lee
Big thing for me is not shoving more and more into Gmail. I want Gmail to be for e-mail, Reader to be for RSS, etc. Gmail is getting over-weight.
- Joshua
Yeah, Privacy (giving out your email address) may be an issue for many. They should have considered aliases or full names with a different look-up method.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
From an old broad's perspective, Twittter is too easy to use, people like me like the simplicity of it.Kill twitter, not so much.
- Michelle
@Mark, true, but it's a lot of throwaway code that could be reused
- Jorge Escobar
Geolocation: "I'm tweeting from the can"
- Ankush Narula
In IRC it was just to denote rank of the user
- Mark
There's my blog post title, Lag -- "FriendFeed was just killed" LOL
- Jorge Escobar
Relevancy and Ranking is not just about Social and Geo. It's about understanding that person's behavior of likes and dislikes. Google knows better than this!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Geotagging -- dunno they are already tagging up all my photos from my phone. Sometimes you just want to talk, share, whatever without revealing your location. I'm open but ummmmm....
- Michelle
Wait, changing to "FriendFeed AND Foursquare were just killed"
- Jorge Escobar
interestingly - now we know why the tech blogs made titles with Buzz in the headline today and yesterday - was to quickly grab the SEO :)
- Allen Stern
"Yes, again, it sounds a lot like FriendFeed. But it has a critical component that FriendFeed never had prior to its acquisition by Facebook: a massive installed user base. "
- Mark
+1 Onur. In particular I'd like better reverse geo.
- Todd Hoff
I think that was the sound of Google stepping on Window Mobile's neck. Looks like Google and Apple are in an entirely new phone space.
- Matt M (inactive)
Shit, they just killed a project I was about to start to code. Local conversations.
- Jorge Escobar
@Ankush, except the scrolling isn't as fast :)
- Mason Lee
Mark: How many of those 1.5 do you think use the service daily?
- Ken Sheppardson
If they have voice updates it HAS to be better than google voice, the transcription sometimes is, hilariously not close to the audio.
- Michelle
Now we see why Facebook rushed out a larger photo size recently
- Glenn Slaven
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ - its the new BING BING BING
- Allen Stern
Ok so if Foursquare is hot and Brightkite not so much what will happen to it based on this Google location based stuff. I happen to prefer Brightkite. Ugh. This is too much. Old broad reaching for cane and sitting in chair watching the social universe go by.
- Michelle
Sounds like I'm going to have to make a rule and have these go into a folder automatically @ inbox notifications
- Tamara
@Allen: ITS JUST A WORD! BUZZ! SEE? ITS AWESOME! SAY IT! BUZZ!
- Joshua
Best thing is 300 million people automatically have Buzz Accounts in their Gmail window
- Mark
now we will get 10,000 blog posts, foursquare will take a backseat for 3 days i think, then back to foursquare pumping :)
- Allen Stern
@Tamara: Exactly, or hopefully they give the user the ability to not have them show up in their inbox
- Joshua
I can't really wait to build something on it :) It doesn't look like a FriendFeed killer. Google is more like continuing to innovate where FriendFeed left off. I liked that..
- deerstep
I think Centre Networks were the first to postulate this is a Friendfeed type service
- Mark
The main issue with Buzz? The way Google handles Social Graphs
- Jorge Escobar
Where do your folk come from i.e. followers followees friends do you rebuild or do you aggregate al your folk from other services in some way. This is just not making sense to me. Kinda like wave and kinda like mail. Are they trying to do too much in email?
- Michelle
Except that your gmail is shown in posts for anyone to see?
- Joshua
The word "Buzz" is not something I want to experience hourly.
- Mason Lee
The mobile version appears to already work for existing gmail accounts.
- Patrick Looney
Not quite having success myself... seems like it just hangs when I try to post content.
- Ankush Narula
Well, if you don't use Gmail for email, then isn't it technically "on it's own"? i.e. you'll have nothing in Gmail other than Buzz stuff.
- Ken Sheppardson
Interesting that I can now post in the mobile version using my Google Apps id. I'm guessing that it's because I have a google account and profile setup with that. Works fine with my normal gmail account too, however, I cannot get it to work on my laptop with either Chrome or Safari via the gmail interface for either account. I did get a buzz email come through though.
- Keith Bennett
I'd really like to move my iTunes library around and organise it like so - music in one network share, movies in another and Tv shows in a third. Any suggestions?
songbird.org has a fairly good detection program, you may want to add your library there first, and then add the ext. exorcise the cloness? something like that, det rid of dupes and then go from there to iTunes? just a sugg
- The Real sofarsoShawn
You could mount your network shares to directories in your iTunes library. Or you could use symbolic links.
- Paul Grav
I think the best way is to copy the files onto the shares, then in iTunes, add the files/folders. Make sure in iTunes settings that copy to iTunes library is not checked first. What this does is just add the meta data to your library, leaving the file in its original location.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Zee - I'm at work (school firewalls) but was tempted to call in sick just so I could watch the announcement -- My "like" is to mark your post so I can easily return ;)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'll be coming in late to the show, but I'll be here.
- Matt Hilton