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Improve FriendFeed for your friends by recommending subscriptions - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
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Nice! Friends, please send me recommendations :)
- joey
Excellent feature, gooood idea!
- Susan Beebe
Very cool =)
- FFing Enigma
Cool stuff.
- Mike Bracco
gr8
- حاج مهدی ©
Uh, it tells me that Scoble, among others, could use the recommendations. WTF? Perhaps I have too few subscriptions for this to work.
- Fred Yankowski
more good stuff
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Finally a better recommendation
- directeur
I'd still love an "e-mail this item" feature, similar to Google Reader.
- Jesse Stay
great idea!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Cool! Beats the heck out of #followfriday!!
- Larry Hawes
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
User-driven...I like.
- Josh Haley
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
Definitely better than #followfriday.
- Bernie Goldbach
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
better
- solncee
Spigit Pharma Clients Share their Experiences at Recent Conferences http://blog.spigit.com/permali... #innovation #e20 #pharma
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Thanks for sharing more customer experiences, Hutch!
- Larry Hawes
Has Twitter downgraded API service to FriendFeed? My Twitter clients are updating fine, but FF is spazzing.
Some tweets are delivered to FF in realtime, others come much later, and some never post. Whazzup with that?
- Larry Hawes
Looking forward to finding out about search and social in Sharepoint 2010 this week.
There's a lot to absorb. I attended MSFT pre-conference phone briefings this week. Loads of new features.
- Larry Hawes
we need a hashtag key...just took me way longer than it should to figure out that #bwe09 is blogworld expo (yea, i'm not that smart).
Check this out, Eric. Stumbled upon it last week. http://hashtags.org/tags
- Larry Hawes
Here's another hashtag directory. http://tagdef.com/
- Larry Hawes
New blog post: Warburg Pincus Invests $10 Million in Spigit http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009... #innovation #e20
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Fabulous! Congrats Hutch and Spigit!!
- Larry Hawes
Thanks Larry. Keep on keeping on.
- Hutch Carpenter
Anyone want to use this FF thread to chat about tonight's #redsox game? Add comments...
Thanks Jim! Beckett's looking a bit rusty tonight, eh? He just bounced a ball over the plate. Hope he loosens up and finds the groove.
- Larry Hawes
Debating a revenue model for a twitter based confessional. DM based
Re DM Confesional: Confessor pay ssmall fee, 10% of which goes to church or other charity.
- Larry Hawes
Two Reasons Why Twitter May Not Be Worth So Much to Google and Microsoft http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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You mean besides the fact that Twitter service is unreliable? :>P
- Larry Hawes
I'm glad this is being pointed out. I've gone from a guy who wanted Twitter to succeed when many were enjoying their many tech failures... to someone who is now repulsed by the the hyper-valuation of the service, data and company in general. Today, Twitter looks like a huge scam. And who will get scammed by Twitter? Any company who signs a business contract with them. In particular, CNN...
more...
- sull
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We can't assume that Google and Bing won't innovate relating to how they would handle the firehose from Twitter. I think Twitter can benefit from some heavy duty analytics (which Bing and Google have the scale to accomplish). It's a brilliant strategy- if anyone can monetize the "search" aspect of Twitter with scale, that's probably Bing and Google. But I agree with RWW that I won't be expecting a big down payment for this deal- rather a ramp-up driven approach where it could get big gradually, over time.
- William Mougayar
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What would an intern want out of a job?
Entry for resume, actual experience, learning, and (most of all) new connections.
- Larry Hawes
Schwag suggestions so far: laptop sleeves, screen wipes, compressed air, a copy of Cluetrain 10yr edition....keep em coming.
I'd prefer services, instead of schwag. Must have reliable WiFi & power strips. Nice to have massage, foosball..
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes You heading to ARMA next week by any chance?
No. Haven't had a toe in the Records Mgmt. pool for a while. Key piece of ECM, but not a focal area for me.
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes Per usual, I think that search is going to be the key to all this and how well it all integrates with enterprise search tools.
You may be correct. Connectbeam thought so, but they seemed to be too far ahead of the market.
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes Send me the link. Would love to read your thoughts on the matter. Hope I get to see you at Gilbane Conf in Dec.
Will do, Ron. Definitely catch up in Dec., if not sooner. Western MA is just a little too far...
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes No, but they have an overall plan to integrate with Documentum, Filenet and other major players.
Yes, and their strategy is very interesting. That's what my blog post will focus on.
- Larry Hawes
I'm very happy to see Jive working on integration of content and people services. Noble and needed effort!
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes I was briefed about Jive CMS integration tools on Tues & wrote about it in FCM. Interesting they are taking CMS integration lead.
Jive certainly isn't first social software platform or app to integrate with SharePoint.
- Larry Hawes
Think I'll blog on the landscape of social software and CMS integration tomorrow. Interesting game at hand.
- Larry Hawes
Funny. Everyone's bitching about Twitter being down, but I'm getting tweets from those I follow via FriendFeed. In realtime.
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I <3 FriendFeed!!
- Larry Hawes
we need a mechanism that explains hashtag abbreviations. for instance, i have NO IDEA what #IMS09 is, but i'd like to find out.
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+1 on need for hashtag dictionary. Perhaps Twitter should require conferences to register hashtag in directory?
- Larry Hawes
Brizzly offers wiki-style definitions for trending topics but not for *every* hashtag. I like the idea and I'd like to see it scale out to every hashtag and every client. Here's a writeup on that: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
RT @adamostrow: Twitter still collectively can't spell No. 4's last name ... "Farve" is once again trending.
And Favre has been in the league since 1991! Pitiful that his name is still misspelled.
- Larry Hawes
McKinsey did a study for AT&T in the 80's about cell phones. Prediction: 1M units in US by 2000. Actual: 109M. Forcasting is hard.
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A couple of things spring to mind 1) Moores law wasn't common knowledge back then. 2) People's desire to get laid means they will use any means of communication at their disposal.
- James Robertson
Reminds me of Thomas Watson's (IBM) forecast that there was demand for 5 computers (mainframes) in the world.
- Larry Hawes
They forgot multiplication ;)
- Ashish
A million people then is about as much as 109 million is today. It's all in the exchange rates...
- Mike Lewis
You can get teensy toy r/c helicopters for $20 now, right?
- Andrew C (✓)
LOL @ Mike Lewis
- Oblomov
Thanks for the laugh, Mike
- MiniMage
@lehawes ooh - good luck with that... i have kids in elementary school, so it's pretty much a requirement for the next few years.
My wife, 16yo son, and I each have a cell phone and line. My almost 3yo son has not yet qualified. :>)
- Larry Hawes
Thinking of moving my landline to Comcast. Much cheaper, but dealing with them is so maddening (just to order service), having 2nd thoughts.
Good luck! I'm trying to convince my wife that we don't need a landline period.
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes @elsua @curiousmitch email vs rss is moot as you say, since real-time activity stream are going to win out anyway ;-)
@elsua @curiousmitch I'd like to think the public info bucket (activity stream) will win out over the private ones (email & RSS).
- Larry Hawes
Ran into someone on the street who wished me happy birthday. Damn you, birthday social virus web!
Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a great day (despite $24 taco lunch)!
- Larry Hawes
Why am I not surprised to see @dtunkelang as the biggest dot in the center of the #tt09 diagram? http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/wikifie...
Thanks for sharing the ManyEyes diagram of the #tt09 network. Looks like I have some connecting to do.
- Larry Hawes
Alas, I was only able to attend Day 1 of #tt09. Sorry I missed seeing you on Day 2.
- Larry Hawes
Before we start Q&A, my question: the greatest fear of the human being? Qual o maior medo do ser humano?
IMO, greatest fear = that a person isn't who/what they believe they are.
- Larry Hawes
Bike I hope to acquire - http://meryn.posterous.com/bike-i-...
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Bike never set sights on an IPO, has no other exit strategy except to be acquired by Meryn. :D
- Micah
Hehe. I thought it felt more like "acquiring" than "buying" to me, because it will be such an important part of my life. I expect it to be with me much longer than most of my other possessions. My last bike has served me for over 13 years. Unfortunately, the gearing hub broke down recently. Since I don't think I can get back the exact same gearing hub, I decided it was time to retire it. I think this will be a worthy successor. Same brand, similar model actually. Just all "2009".
- Meryn Stol
I like the chain guard. Having to rubber-band my jeans always annoys me.
- Phil Glockner
Ah. Reminds me of the old days. When men were men and bikes were bikes.
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes Even still, when you work in a service industry, it's very hard to say no to a client (internal or external).
Agreed, but do-lessers would argue that saying no lets you improve quality of work, creating more loyal customers that provide a steady (and reasonable) revenue stream.
- Larry Hawes
And, they'd be right. However, I've been on the receiving end of a do-lesser. The result? My frustration. It's hard when someone tells you they can't help.
- V Mary Abraham
Especially if you know and value that person's assistance. No easy choices in life.
- Larry Hawes
Perhaps doing less follows same logic as self-care: If U don't do one, U can't do much of anything else.
- V Mary Abraham
@lehawes That makes sense. It's a great model. But, I wonder how it applies to working in a corporate office?
Good question. I think the Zen Habits post you shared had more applicable advice in that regard.
- Larry Hawes
@lehawes Larry, your piece on Updike is wonderful. What a terrific example of discipline leading to high productivity. http://lehawes.wordpress.com/2009...
Thanks very much, Mary! I reread that post from time to time, just to force a reset on my work life.
- Larry Hawes
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