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@wolframalpha is now live for anyone to use http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (via http://friendfeed.com/dannysu...)
Bill Romanos, Sampad Swain, sean percival and 24 other people liked this
not on my side Robert, still can't type into the field. Can everyone else?
- Zee.
LIES!
- Pat Hawks
Nope, with Zee, nothing there atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
wolframalpha is not yet working on this side of the atlantic...
- Brad Kligerman
hmmm
- Aaron Choate
Nope. Says launching soon.
- Drew Lucas
"like" [checks web site] [can't get web site to accept query] "unlike"
- Karim
'Launching May 2009'
- Jalada
Not working here in Seattle either.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
sigh, not for everyone...
- Marcelle
I got nothing either. And every time I see that name I try to make it some kind of twisted Joss Whedon mashup of Angel and Dollhouse.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
False alarm. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.
- Jason Williams
not for me either...
- metalerik
nope - not live - where did you get this info?
- mediaeater
...only their Twitter feed seems to have gone live (barely) @wolframalpha
- Brad Kligerman
At least we know it's close with Twitter going up and rumors going on :)
- Andrew VanderVeen
Isn't it @wolfram_alpha?
- Jalada
oh i get it... it's a pun... "the boy who cried wolfram"
- Karim
no dice from NY
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Not working in here either, sorry for the false alarm. I shared this because Danny Sullivan said it was public and I trusted him.
- Robert Scoble
nope.
- mjc
just imagine all the clicking this has caused :D
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
they got a good idea of how much to prep for the Scoble Effect when it does go live though ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
box is still disabled here in the UK across multiple browsers
- alphaxion
One would have to click on a link and fill out an application to ask them to grant early access.
- John P
Looking forward to when it eventually is...
- Jonathan Grimes
I hope this isn't the Segway of this decade.
- Stephen Borchert
@Jason Williams: +1
- David Damore
Stephen Borchert: Was thinking the same thing. Totally remember all the hype re: "The Ginger" before anyone know what it really was. ("A scooter? WTF?")
- Sue Radd
Reminds me of the hype for http://www.cuil.com/ Hope it doesn't end the same way. That was sad ;)
- David Damore
No it isn't. :)
- Chrimmus Tad
Let's see just how good this new thing is...
- Gordon Montgomery
Its not working for me ;)
- Nicholas James
Appears to still be in beta, guess I'm not one of the "few select individuals"
- Jim Tierney
*note to self. read comments first*
- Micah Wittman
WolframAlpha is a terrific tool for studentes, teachers and scientists.
- ramiromarques
@ramiromarques have you been able to use it already?
- David Damore
ya can't search, LOL. fail. just push it out already #yawn
- sean percival
Not enabled..checking from Bangalore, India
- Mahesh CR
Not yet, Scoble from Mumbai, India
- Sampad Swain
FeedDemon - The best RSS reader for Windows. Period. - http://www.newsgator.com/individ...
Sinka Csaba, Kol Tregaskes, Mory and 24 other people liked this
Other than being a desktop app, why should I prefer this to GReader?
- Mattie Kenny
I meant that as an earnest question, btw.
- Mattie Kenny
totally agree with Mattie.... why ???
- Tim
The best feed reader for windows is a Chrome shortcut to Google Reader
- Mitch
I thought it was until I started using Google Reader
- Michael Fidler
FULL ACK @Mattie
- Marcel Janus
Mattie, hmmm...other than the desktop thing, it does not keep you tied to all-knowing Google, something which a paranoid nut like me feels happy about. Perhaps, this post can probably explain it better. http://tinyurl.com/2vrjaa
- JazJaz
from twhirl
Please try the latest beta version for a week.
- JazJaz
I stay with netvibes and/or feedly ;)
- gekow
Flock Browser is far superior or if not I will agree wit Greader, Friendfeed and Twhirl :)
- Ian Cleasby
from twhirl
One really good reason to use a desktop reader is that some of them can monitor pages that don't have a feed and alert you to any changes. Essential feature for keeping ALL of your software up to date. Additionally, there are feeds you can't subscribe to in Google Reader, because they require authentication, and unfortunately that's not something Google Reader supports.
- April Russo (app103)
I like Google reader. Period (lol)
- Keshav Khera
from twhirl
For the Mac: NetNewsWire http://www.newsgator.com/INDIVID...
- Jay
Has anyone done a feedly vs. FeedDemon comparison?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I like Google Reader too, but I am an administrator on 3 forums and have to subscribe to feeds for the admin boards, and that requires a reader that can accept a username & pass to log me in to access the nonpublic feeds. I also like having popup notification when new posts are made on these forums, so I can quickly delete spam within 30 seconds of it being posted.
- April Russo (app103)
feedly is messy. google reader has toomany limitations and is visually all screwed up. i don't understand why newsgator doesn't make an rss reader similar to netnewswire. feeddemon isn't horrible, but it could be so much better. netnewswire is probably the best i've tried and continue to use. only for mac, but the best thing is that it's free.
- Cee Bee
Cee Bee: Is there a specific part of feedly you find messy?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Excuse my novice-ship, but one condition I enjoy about feedly is that it allows me to both upload to my twitter and my friendfeed accounts, almost simultaneously, and the luxury of sharing it with other g-friends. Now, if feeddemon can do all of this, I'm sold.Sold I tells ya!!
- Terence
edwin -- i have over 600 subscriptions and found it a bit of a nuisance to navigate in the small space on feedly as well as view other people's shares. this goes the same for google -- it tries to fit too much into one space (notes, shares, suggestions, options, etc) whereas with a stand alone program like netnewswire, i can have all the options, settings and other gadgets for different functions not only in a separate tool bar, but menu as well leaving the dedicated rss reader to do what it does best
- Cee Bee
cee bee - thanks for the feedback. I will pass that to the design team.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
used to use that when I didnt have a Mac , it is a good one
- johnpiercy
For those of you who don't know already, FeedDemon is the (slightly) lesser cousin of NetNewsWire. They both share the same parent - Newsgator.
- JazJaz
Unfortunately I think any app has to be benchmarked against Google Reader. If not, it's nothing more than an RSS scraper.
- Glenn Batuyong
have been using this when a) i had to pay for it and b) google reader did not exist. and still love it. if only for sentimental reasons ....
- denise
I don't think I'll ever use a desktop RSS reader. I need my reader to be in the cloud b/c I read from 3 workstations. I love Google reader esp w/ sharing.
- Keith - @tsudo
@tsudohnimh FeedDemon can synchronize feeds across multiple computers too. And you can also share items just like you do with Google Reader. Trouble is, not many people know about these features. FD can be customized to provide an uncluttered, aesthetic interface to read your feeds.
- JazJaz
@JazJaz ty for the info. Does it also provide a web interface for reading feeds?
- Keith - @tsudo
tsudo, FeedDemon syncs with newsgator, which on top of syncing each copy of FeedDemon with each pc you use, also syncs with their online reader at http://www.newsgator.com, also mobile at http://m.newsgator.com
- Shmoe
No web version mean me no like. I don't want to keep installing apps. I want cross platform compatibility.
- Ernie Oporto
@Ernie this synchronizes with google reader or newsgator
- Paul Whitaker
The GReader sync feature doesn't work. I tried it and it failed.
- LANjackal
Under Restructuring, GM To Build More Cars Overseas - washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
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U.S. Web Freedom Bill Critical to Combating Censorship - http://www.freedomhouse.org/templat...
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KFC offers rain checks on coupon. Chain overwhelmed by customers trying to cash in on Oprah promotion. - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
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"Memo to KFC: never underestimate the power of Oprah Winfrey. Or the lure of a freebie. A free grilled-chicken meal promotion touted by the popular talk show host has caused such a frenzy that a few stores ran out and the Louisville-based chain is asking customers to take a rain check for the deal."
- Anthony K. Valley ©
from Bookmarklet
I don't have time to write a blog post about RSS being dead. I'm too busy writing apps that move RSS from here to there in new ways.
Saket Vaidya, Marc Dong, don loeb and 17 other people liked this
That was a pretty silly statement by Steve Gillmor. Maybe RSS readers are dead, but RSS is certainly long-term glue--as you are proving.
- Bill Rice
How else was he going to generate the pageviews?
- coldbrew
so RSS is *un*dead? braiiins. :) I'm sure you've encountered the same thing, but I don't think RSS will ever be consumer tech in it's raw (RSS reader) form. It was destined from the beginning to be plumbing.
- mikepk
I used to describe it as the defacto web data API. Perfect? no, but darn useful.
- mikepk
Mike, it's like HTTP.
- Dave Winer
wow, thats great. Would like to know more about it through one of your blog posts
- Sampad Swain
Yeah, electricity is dead as well -- I don't see anywhere!
- Jorge Escobar
You know since Steve was adopting a musical theme, I went looking, and I haven't found it yet. I think it's on the Love You Live album where Mick Jagger responds to some people carrying on in the audience with a dismissive even derisive "Everything okay in the critics section?" He has a picture of the Beatles, they did some great music, but RSS is more like the Stones, rough and dirty. But it rocks.
- Dave Winer
If RSS is dead I must be in heaven - 722 feeds and rising.
- Michael Turro
I can feel the shift, I also just made mention of RSS feeling different now with TWITTER and other real time aggregators on my account @mattaphillips
- Matthew
Viewing RT @HarvardBiz How Artist/Leaders Do Things Differently http://ow.ly/5p1l
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Hard to distinguish between the top of a mug & the bottom of a mug in a dark kitchen. That makes pouring juice far more difficult
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Twitter Hype Cycle Just Beginning: Just 5 percent say they use Twitter, according to researchers at the Online H.. http://asterisk.tmcnet.com/topics...
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"I got put on Twitter's official suggested users list last night. I asked them to take me off it today and they did." http://twitter.com/jayrose...
akio0911, Rob Diana, Richard Carter, FCD and 49 other people liked this
i wonder why they don't ask people before they put them on the list? maybe they just assume that everyone wants to be on the list
- Chris Heath
I will do the same, if I get put on the Twitter list.
- Robert Scoble
I think I asked the last time there was a similar conversation - so please excuse the question if it was already asked - but why would you want to be removed? Am I missing something? Since I don't really use Twitter maybe there is something I do not understand.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
LPH: I will refuse to be on this list for three reasons: 1. it's not a meritocracy. That means that my inclusion on it will raise questions about whether I did something behind the scenes to get on the list. 2. It is a gift from a company I would like to cover journalistically in the future. If I got the "gift" of being on the list I could no longer do that and keep my own integrity. 3. Being on the list gets you huge amounts of unenaged followers. I really am not in this game just for numbers.
- Robert Scoble
...you're a man of principle, Dave Winer.
- .LAG liked that
LPH: Go to TechCrunch's followers. Look at the engagement level. Most of his followers don't even put a picture on their avatars. Now go to mine and compare. The engagement level is HUGELY different. I'm paid to get an engaged audience, not an audience of bots or an audience of people who don't participate in the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
LPH: TechCrunch's followers: http://twitter.com/TechCru... My followers: http://twitter.com/Scoblei... -- what differences do you notice? Look for signs of engagement. What are those? 1. Have the members put a photo on the avatar? 2. Have the members actually done a tweet or two? 3. Have the members actually followed anyone on their own (organic following?)
- Robert Scoble
Robert - now that makes sense. I just don't use Twitter enough and am used to FF engagement. Guess I'm spoiled !
- LPH™ and his dog P™
LPH: now do you see the problem Twitter is facing here? http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsen... -- lots of hype, not enough engagement. It's engagement that advertisers will pay for, not the hype.
- Robert Scoble
Or, visit this article about non engagement: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovat...
- Robert Scoble
Hint: this list is actually making things worse for Twitter's returns and engagement. Here's why: 1. If you get onto Twitter because of a celebrity, that's great, but I've found people get very fickle about celebrities. Go to @oprah, for instance. Is there anything really that interesting there to read day after day after day? I don't see it. But what if your best friend is on Twitter? Yes, I find following my close friends on Twitter day after day IS interesting and DOES get me back to the service.
- Robert Scoble
2. Twitter seems to only endorse "celebrities" on its recommended follower list. Well, that tells normal users that they don't matter to the system as much as celebrities. So they feel less engaged/empowered. Compare this to Facebook where celebrities only can have 5,000 friends. Now everyone is on the same level and the system "feels" more intimate and engaging because of that.
- Robert Scoble
Great point Robert, and that's another reason why sites like Facebook (and in the past MySpace, Friendster, etc) are 'sticky' ... people you actually know are there. Most people will be more engaged with people they actually know - i for one don't engage with celebs on twitter because i know they're not going to engage with me
- Chris Heath
bet that if twitter had a "best-of-the-day" feed like, no celebrity will on it. twitter is becoming less conversational. pity :(
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Chris: right! Plus, this list really penalizes the real users of the service (this is why Allen Stern's points about friendfeed's list being bad are starting to win me over). Those who put the most time into the service should be rewarded by that service. I've been on Twitter 890 days. The fact that someone else is on the recommended list that's only been on for 15 days really pisses me off and makes me more likely to go elsewhere.
- Robert Scoble
Shivanand: right, and it would be a lot better for engagement to have something like http://alltop.com/ which recommends people based on your content interests. If I want to hook into people who are into quilting, why would such a system recommend Mike Arrington to me?
- Robert Scoble
i'm texting scoble from my iphone and it's mangling every goddam word
- Dave Winer
The other thing about 'recommended' is For What? I might like Robert, but not if I'm looking for hollywood dish. same w/ jay, obviously.
- reed price
Dave: the iPhone keyboard does that. (I'm on the phone with him now).
- Robert Scoble
I've never found the suggested users list to be useful, on Twitter or FriendFeed. Frankly, I don't care if you're "just some guy/girl" or if you're God...if you don't say anything that interests me or teaches me something new, I'm not going to look for what you have to say. If you put all the numbers aside and make connections on a one-to-one basis, even though it's accessible one-to-many, that's worth finding.
- Sally: gift wrapper
The celebrity suggested user lists completely miss the point of Twitter, implying it's a broadcast system - which is a minority use case. Services like Mr Tweet are far more apposite. Even random selections might get you started better!
- Tom de Grunwald
A friend of mine joined Twitter and had list of "friends" and she didn't know who they were. It's like moving to a new address and getting a bunch of junk the first time you open the mail box.
- Tom Newman
Tom, they're not really "friends", you're following a person, they may be friends, they may not. I know, picky, picky, picky.
- Rob Fahrni
Reed, i totally agree... suggested lists are a nice thing to have, but only when you know why the suggestion is being made.
- Chris Heath
Maybe a better model for a suggested list would be to look at more than number of subscriptions/follows - look at how many posts/comments - on FF they could also look at how many services or what services - if i post a lot from a service then the suggested list should maybe show me more people from that service ... one thing i will agree is that a suggested list is a hard thing to do because you can't please everyone with your suggestions ... just look where we are now...
- Chris Heath
Even though I respect your reasons, I still can't believe you did it. It's such a huge opportunity. Yes but I do see what Scoble is saying. it would be impossible to criticize them.
- Stephen Pickering
Oh my bad, It was Jay Rosen. I thought it was Dave Winer. Oh well, same difference. I can totally understand him. He's a journalist. What would be interesting to see though is if he remained on the list but remained totally objective and criticized them when it was appropriate and see if they then took him off.
- Stephen Pickering
NICE: @anonymoustom: "celebrity suggested user lists miss the point of Twitter, implies broadcast system, a minority use case"
- .LAG liked that
Dave, why do you think they put you on the list?
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: Dave wasn't put on the list, Jay Rosen was. I bet he was put on the list because he's one of the best Twitterers around and because he doesn't do anything "negative" in their eyes, like talk about friendfeed or overload users with too many tweets.
- Robert Scoble
Don't forget the fact that there will be no way your followers can all DM you if you're on that list.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: that's a good point and since I care more about having engaged followers than just a broadcast mechanism, that matters to me too.
- Robert Scoble
When a 'cat who tweets' makes the list, while many worthwhile charitable/educational organizations are ignored, something doesn't smell right. And it isn't just @sockington's litter box.
- Sharon McPherson
How many more requests did you get while 'recommended' versus say a normal day?
- Andrew Leyden
ah got it. It was Jay not Dave.
- Thomas Hawk
Probably not the same league as Twitter, but Tweetree.com shows you (Dave) and Scobleizer on their front page sometimes.
- Hiro Asari
Jay's decision clearly struck a nerve: Look at all these comments! ... Re: Robert Scoble saying he'd refuse to be listed because (a) it would raise questions about quid pro quo (b) gift would compromise his journalism, and (c) unengaged followers -- I get a & b, and applaud him for it. But I'm not sure I grasp the downside of having 100,000 "unengaged" followers. How do you know how...
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- Alan Mairson
Odd: CNN says Religious more likely to support torture (Pew Survey) http://www.cnn.com/2009...
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not surprised. An eye for an eye...
- chartreuse
Oh great...statistically supported stereotyping.
- John Kreicbergs
An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind..Gandhi
- Murat Gök
Weird having a Friday holiday instead of Monday. Feels like two Saturdays instead of two Sundays.
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In case you missed it last night, this is my passionate appeal for my Twitter followers to give FriendFeed a proper go: http://14sandwiches.com/2009...
Nir Ben Yona, lonnie b hodge, LPH™ and his dog P™ and 2 other people liked this
Great post.
- Svartling
Thanks Svartling!
- Martin Bryant
Thumbs up Martin. Very well written
- embee
Thanks embee!
- Martin Bryant
"Why The Cool Kids Are Flocking to Friendfeed" - http://jessenewhart.com/twitter...
Keith - @tsudo, Mitchell Tsai, Marko Saric and 148 other people liked this
don't you know it :)
- Zee.
interesting. I decided to give FF a 2nd try (I signed up for it when it first came out) not because of the celebrity flood to twitter but I wanted a place for *discussion* that wasn't limited to 140 characters.
- Violet Mae Lim
I still rarely use FF compared to Twitter as I'm often using Twitter from a device. That said, I love how my digital life aggregates into a single place, along with everyone else. The key will be search. Tracking "popular" on search topics on FF should be very interesting.
- Geoff Wilson
it's all about the meta data. Twitter will never be as valuable as FriendFeed for that very reason.
- Steffan Antonas
Fab Image!
- Elizabeth
The "cool kids" might be moving, but I doubt that the cool kids can make FriendFeed a success (that is, compared to Twitter. a network as diverse as Twitter). Twitter was the first in its kind. Many people consider it "good enough".
- Meryn Stol
Because you aren't cool anymore and the REALLY cool kids (re celebrities) are on Twitter.
- Laurent Courtines
Fascinating!
- coldbrew
It is really going to be fun to watch the mass migration ... followed by the media exposure 2 years later
- Keith Barrett
Beatles!
- Charlie Anzman
Hei, I have been using FF for a long time as an aggregate, never thought it could be use this way!
- MoRiza
Thanks for posting my link Steve. I've been a subscriber to your lifestream for a while and I'm happy to float in it :)
- Jesse Newhart
Just don't pee in it Jesse!
- Kevin Elliott
Kevin - LOL I'll try :p
- Jesse Newhart
Friendfeed is Twitter on steroids
- Thomas Power
sheesh, I guess this means I need to leave now...
- Cheryl
I wanna be c0ol too!!
- Billy Warhol
Agree. FriendFeed is significantly more useful for sharing real information. No comparison.
- Hamilton Wallace
Twitter on Oprah was the best thing for FriendFeed. An eureka moment as she jumped into the Twitter stream...
- zeroinfluencer
I've been on FriendFeed since March 2008 and I love it!!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Twitter and FriendFeed are not the same. Although the cool kids are already here ;)
- Nicholas James
The REALLY cool kids have identi.ca accounts and use it to talk about coding rather than congratulating each other over their new media gasbaggery. Just sayin'.
- Tom Morris
friendfeed has way better noise reduction filters than twitter atm
- Phil Smirnov
I dont know about cool kids, or I dont care if I am one, but I just did it!
- Lakshman Prasad
Steve must be prescient - I think it was last summer when he kept saying FriendFeed was actually more useful than Twitter, which is why I have both!
- Joan Vinall-Cox
Just found it again today..I like it!
- Enriqueta
i'm a cool kid. whew.
- michelle lamar
michelle, of course you are. you have a pug. :)
- Karoli
It always comes down to Pugs, doesn't it. Good thing we know the truth.
- michelle lamar
It's basically impossible to converse with any manner of context on Twitter. It's maybe a one- or two-blurt attention span. Perfect for those with ADD. I like FF much better.
- Rick Cogley
And, I have a Golden Retriever, so I have no need for a pug. (they're cute, though!)
- Rick Cogley
Search Google From Inside Gmail - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Google edging their way towards social networking.
- Lawrence Di Stefano
FriendFeed Blog: A whole new FriendFeed - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Matt Kaufman, Alex Hammer, Peter and 242 other people liked this
We launched!
- Bret Taylor
Nice. I like the Email/IM notification accordion the the home page. The people who stayed on legacy FriendFeed are going to feel this one.
- Mark Trapp
Un-like!
- YusufOzanTasdemir
Can we get an old.friendfeed.com
- Andrew Smith
Congrats!
- Stephen Mack
I so love these new features. I have been using the beta since it came about, and I used it instead of the regular, ugly Friendfeed. One problem, their is no accounts button, how do I change other information. That was one slight design flaw that needs to be fixed.
- Zachary TG
@Andrew Smith +1
- Hüseyin Mert
Awesome :)
- Ross Miller
At last !
- Luka
i don't want to use this. There must be alternative to use old FF
- Filiz Koyuncu
congrat's
- mike "glemak" dunn
Zachary: we updated the "settings" page ("settings" link below your name in the top right); everything should be in there now. Let us know if you notice anything missing.
- Tudor Bosman
horrible :S we want old FF
- Kaan Ukturk
There are quite a few user styles available if you're using Firefox and the Stylish extension. http://userstyles.org/styles...
- tiffany
Guys, you're doing a bad thing launching half-baked version without a notice. There's at least no imaginary friends and I can't export my subscriptions now (I've used FrF as RSS reader and have hundreds of them). That's not mentioning another little tweaks you've missed (i.e. service icons — even FaceBook got it right, they have service icons for imported entries and have no for their own status updates). You're ruining the whole experience of managing a lot of information.
- Juras Vetrau
It's awesome. I really appreciate http://friendfeed.com/setting.... Also, I don't want to be negative, but is the "live search" coming?
- Jérôme Flipo
WANT OLD FF? http://friendfeed.com/alpb...
- Alp
congrats! now back to "listening to your users" pls :)
- Phil Smirnov
please give back old friendfeed, this one looks bad
- Peter
Juras, I think there are one other % of FF users who feel the same. Same think happened to Facebook users. But we've to move on. Imaginary friends can be added as "feed". The lack of service icons AFAIK increased the generic participation (in Friendfeed). You can create filters for "service=" if it's necessary. I agree with you on the OPML part.
- Jérôme Flipo
Rock & Roll! Very happy with the interface. Thanks for listening to the considered opinions you have, and implementing fixes when necessary. You guys have done a fantastic job of keeping people informed of new changes.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I still don't like it, but I still continue to using FF
- Kristian Salonen
Those who can't handle the real-time, press Q: RT will be disabled by default for your account (re-press Q for the flood).
- Jérôme Flipo
Juras: I'm pretty sure they've been letting everyone know about this for some time...Where have you been?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The settings to automatically post likes or comments to Twitter are missing.
- Pat Hawks
couldn't you just put the old FF to old.friendfeed.com or somewhere like that?
- Barış (beyn.org)
Bret, you SHOULD check this out. New realtime version has JavaScript errors can be observed in Firebug: http://i39.tinypic.com/33u64qp... Now, I got 93 error. I think you changed something about AJAX response format (?)
- Alp
+1 Rob, this is hardly without notice. They've been shouting about it for weeks.
- Pat Hawks
Alp: thanks, we are looking into the issue
- Bret Taylor
Always there are those resistant to change. I remind you all of the last couple of Facebook updates. At least the FriendFeed team listens and responds to complaints, problems and issues, and corrects them when necessary ----Big smiles and kudos for that!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@jeromeflipo: FrF was internet's GTD tool — one inbox for all links and discussions with accurately separated content. Now it's a vast of content where you should read instead of scanning. It takes much more time. New design is good but core features doesn't work properly.
- Juras Vetrau
You can find your Twitter publishing settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting.... You can find all the links to your settings by clicking the "settings" link under your name at the top right of every page (http://friendfeed.com/...)
- Bret Taylor
I love the new FF. Just wonder if the play/pause state can be remembered, so people might disable realtime updates.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Bret, how do I get to the Advanced Twitter settings from the settings link under my name? I don't see it.
- Pat Hawks
Would be great to get the "best ofs" in a list via email too.
- Steve Rubel
Bret, you're welcome. I hope you don't remove http://friendfeed.com/realtime option for nostalgy :) By the way, in new version how can we learn users have subscribed us? You removed it from user popup dialog. And I think user-info popup has many whitespaces :) Why don't u fill them with comment/like stats? It shows the activity of user. I think it is critical.
- Alp
i love it!
- patrick
The play/pause state is remembered, so you can permanently turn off real-time if you don't want it. Steve: great point, we will add the ability to get "Best of" emailed to you.
- Bret Taylor
Play/pause wasn't remembered once, now it works. Maybe it was my mistake, thanks!
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Nice work.
- Caleb Elston
trying to enable IM notifications - maybe just slow? Not getting anything on the ol' GTalk..
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
love the new site, once I got use to it, keep up the good work
- Kim Landwehr
i really love the new interface :)
- alexandere
what?! beta can't be over, it's only been three weeks!
- Edward Zwart
Bret: I'm not seeing the posting link on the settings page: http://www.flickr.com/photos... How do you get to it without memorizing the URL?
- Mark Trapp
Feedback: http://friendfeed.com/yarosla... Thanks.
- yaroslav
@Yaroslav, totally agree.
- Manila Envelope
First impression: new design just sucks compared to the old one, ant to the twitter's, if that's what you want to be like.
- Laenn
@Yaroslav oh yes
- Химия и Жизнь
from fftogo
no, please, this doesn't make sense!!
- Giovanni Calia
Feedback : I want old FF ... Pls old.friendfeed.com
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
where are you old ff?
- Ersin KOÇ
wo0T! the IM notifier ROCKS...I'M uber-stoked on that feature. (IM is the new email! lol!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
No offends, but seriously, the visual design sucks.
- Manila Envelope
I wish it could use a little more of my monitor screen real estate. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Bret, Dan or s.b. else, another CRUCIAL PROBLEM I discovered, after this new release, when people subscribed to me, I got notification mails entitled "... subscribed to your Friendfeed" twice or three times (which have a few minutes of delay between each other). You changed anything about mails settings(?) My friends ALSO reported that they get 2+ mails for new subscriber notifications.
- Alp
Mark, you can find the posting link from the Tools page (found at the bottom of any page)
- Dan Hsiao
If you are going to give us all of this (wasted) grey space to the side of our live feed, at least let us put our own background on the page. I mean, that would make you that much more like twitter, which seems to be the goal.
- Wizetux
Qwerty: did you get a stupid picture gift (or see a bunch of "Which 70s rockstar are you" quizzes? LOL! -That's how you'd know you're on Facebook. (oh, and the new spam that they have there....got my first one today!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Bret: Can I post via IM? If so can I CC:Twitter from there?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
doh! I didn't see the help link in the IM. I have another reading lesson scheduled for tomorrow
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
ok...the CC:Twitter via IM question still stands....if not, can you think about adding that?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Really like the new UI. Thanks!
- Oliver Bouchard
I need the feed icons back.
- Peter
i really like the new look and feel - the page scrolling when it auto-updates takes a little getting used to.
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Good beta period. Here's to the Whole New Thing™.
- Chris Baskind
http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... change your avatar now..!
- Kaan Ukturk
Dan Hsiao: aha! Thanks.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, it's now available under your settings too :)
- Dan Hsiao
Awesome, thanks Dan.
- Mark Trapp
How do I add virtual friends?
- Peter
The best thing about this is that ff.im now points at the new design.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
doubt i can get easily used to the "new" ff :( still have a firefox tab open on the realtime, with the old layout. guess i will just keep it as long as i can 0:)
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
I'm disappointed Imaginary friends has disappeared. I was actually using that feature to follow friends on Twitter (who didn't have FF accounts). Is there a way to do the same thing?
- Marc Chung
looks gr8!
- Amit
FOR ALL OF THOSE WANTING IMAGINARY FRIENDS: http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Wizetux
@Wizetux Thanks. Btw, your caps are on :)
- Marc Chung
New interface sucks. It really sucks, and giving headaches. You shouldve kept the old interface. Thanks for ruining one of my daily routines.
- Onur Gündüz
lovin it. are the best-of-summaries für the lists coming back?
- Marcel Weiß
@Marc: I know, I was attempting to yell over the noise of the grumbling over the new layout.
- Wizetux
Will it help if I join the crowd disliking the new version? Can't follow the conversation, too much color, too much moving around...
- Handem
Bret where are best of for lists? I don't see them anymore.
- Steve Rubel
The landing page - friendfeed.com - is especially great !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Bret, Turkish users ask a favor; please, we ask for old.friendfeed.com ~ old style, look our avatars.
- Hüseyin Mert
Not gonna happen, dude. Progress is progress.
- LANjackal
I don't understand how to create Imaginary Friends. Yes "create a feed", whatever that's real helpful, not. I think the source for every entry should be an icon on the right like the previous version. Real-time updates are interesting and comments are the only reason to use this over twitter. New posting feature is good but everyone isn't on FF so I need Imaginary friends to continue to use FF or else buh-bye!
- Jude
@Jude The terminology is a bit confusing: It should really read "create a group" and add feeds to the group: Click "Browse /edit groups" > "Create a group". Setting it to private is basically the same thing as creating an Imaginary friend.
- Marc Chung
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- 阿石
Please, old style friendfeed interface.New interface is wrong...
- nagas
@Marc, @Wizetux thanks for clarifying. At some point during the beta they were using the terminology, "create a feed" and now you have to click on Groups in order to get to the place to "create a feed" but you have to know that it's called "create a group" - AWKWARD ... I think that is a navigational fail and a nomenclature fail. "Create a feed" is important enough that it should have it's own link on every page OR Groups should just be called Feeds.
- Laura Norvig
Yep. It's one of the most enjoyable and notable addition in years in the way it's handled. It's in its complexity where, as the experiment is, as a whole a very as speedy, as you want it and as slow as reading is. Missing everything or nothing. Noticing and warming up of individuals, all linked by that exercise, always now expanding. Good job to all of you, the ideas were really good in all ways. As played out. Many thanks. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
for the interface. I think it is not as good as old edition.
- Ccming
I WANT THE OLD VERSION PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
- TechFuga
I hope you have read my bug report above.
- Alp
or can we have a link for the old version!!!!
- TechFuga
One more request: can we please have an API for userscripts? Due to dynamic nature of pages it suddenly became very hard to do anything persistent to FriendFeed from Greasemonkey. All I need is a hook from inside FrF javascript to process new portions of pages.
- Alex Kapranoff
+1 to Alex Kapranoff's request. Also, please at least bring back service icons (them missing really interrupts my parsing of the stream, especially with those big ass avatars), if you won't provide us with http://old.friendfeed.com (or http://classic.friendfeed.com :P)
- Gina Häußge
Gina, there is a user script to add service icons, in case that helps: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Micah Wittman
Micah, thanks, already found that (first thing was to look up on userstyles and userscripts for means to help myself ;)), but it's kind of a hack, and IMHO it would be way better if the FF team included that feature back into the code base. Don't know why anyone would consider it a good idea to remove it in the first place tbh, but hey, we all know these days...
- Gina Häußge
I don't want to use this. There must be alternative to use old FF
- altblog
Congrats, guys. Even works on IE6 now.
- James Myatt
get over it and use a third party client... you sound like people who use CDs
- Kemp Edmonds
from twhirl
Kemp, show me one that works as well and is as visually appealing as the old site (and also on both windows and linux without depending on Air (because that still kinda sucks under Linux)) and I'll shut up ;)
- Gina Häußge
sadly as a windows user and therefore pleeb (Slang for plebian. Often used to refer to noobs in an elitist sense.) by Macers and Linux' who can't help but be the envy of all. Sadly I sit contented by massive numbers of development projects and a variety of programs to choose from that is generally unlimited in cutting edge web apps... although I am a windows pleeb.
- Kemp Edmonds
from twhirl
@Micah I tried the script. It doesn't work with imaginary friends.
- Peter
now look super
- Faizar
How do I create imaginary friend feeds in the new gui?
- Carlos Brefe
Ouch, don't like. Agree with some of Juras V's comments, this makes skimming my feed for keeping a pulse on info/discussions MUCH worse for the time-starved (not speaking of RT aspect). Oh well, will try this for a bit, but feels like point where in Tom Peters' language FF is moving to "fire me as a customer." (Yes, I know we're not paying customers. I would have paid for old svc, was...
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- Casey
Will the daily activity emails (basically a digest) resume? Mine seemed to halt Apr 27 and the Email settings which seem currently available are absolutely flooding my inbox (had to turn it off within 5 mins). Please bring back daily digest type emails, really helpful if away for business or other reasons and ability to skim to catch up on info.
- Casey
@mchung Thanks for trying to clarify. Although creating a feed does not work the same since if a person already has a feed that's private, I can't use the same name. Bring back imaginary friends!!!
- Jude
Congrats FF... sorry I am late to the party...my work life is outta control... crazy busy! I miss FF :(.....
- Susan Beebe
I fully converted to FriendFeed BETA soon as it launched as I thought it rocked - now I don't have to put beta.friendfeed.com all the time :)
- Nicholas James
My impression of the new Friendfeed... http://j-m-williams.com/2009...
- Jason Williams
This is awesome! Back from the future! I _cant_ use twitter anymore. _cant_.
- Lakshman Prasad
Its not my friendfeed, its a horrible dream! :((
- Инк Лонгтан
you need a graphic designer or art director i think.
- Furkan Tunalı
dislike :(
- Trou Macacq
design (layout, interaction) had been mostly better in old variant, but AJAX engine you use in new variant just rocks (old ajax code was dead meat slow crap for desktops on steroids)
- A.T.
Bret, this page is has no entries right now: http://friendfeed.com/bret.... Your first comment page is OK, but all the next ones are empty. Weird.
- Jérôme Flipo
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