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Tweetcount Updated: Supports WordPress 2.9, Bitly Pro - http://blog.backtype.com/2009...
"Can you follow up w/ us via support [at] backtype [dot] com and I’ll take a look into any tweets we’re missing. We support wp.me, but maybe something is going wrong with the link you tried."
- Mike Montano
BackType Connect plugini WP nedense çalışmıyor. Burada konuya yazılan yorumlar Bactype sitesine gitmez oldu. Sizde böyle bir durum var mı?
Oğulcan Orhan, Nahnu, Mustafa Öztürk and 6 other people liked this
Yani benim siteye gelmiyor demiyorum. Backtype kendisi alamıyor gördüğüm kadarıyla. Ancak alabildikleri geliyor.
- Süleyman Sönmez
can you link me to a post that isn't working so i can check it out :)
- Mike Montano
So cool , so fast Mike :))
- sunipeyk
Mike, URL, http://www.gunesintamicinde.com/panoram... and FF entry: http://friendfeed.com/suleyma...
- Süleyman Sönmez
is the problem that it hasn't imported all entries yet?
- Mike Montano
Mike yes. But It was work before this FF entry
- Süleyman Sönmez
it tried to update 30 minutes ago, i'll take a look at what i can find out. if you have access to your php error log it might have a clue.
- Mike Montano
Mike thanks for help.
- Süleyman Sönmez
Mike it works again :) You are best WP plugin developer :)
- Süleyman Sönmez
Thumbs up for Mike
- Ozkan Altuner
Mike, your dev-support rocks! Better than local ones :)
- Cem Öztürk
Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"We opened up an API for backtweets a while ago: http://backtweets.com/api What would you build with it? Some people are using it in cool ways right now, e.g. hype machine uses it to power a twitter music chart."
- Mike Montano
Just set up Backtype account so I can track where I've made blog comments elsewhere. I've plugged in here in FriendFeed the RSS feed for my comments. Curious to see how it shows up and if it confusing. http://www.backtype.com/url...
I did the same thing. What I've found, though, is that Backtype is so far behind that by the time it posts things here that it is almost a day in the past and the comments don't show up on the first few of my FriendFeed screens.
- Peter Murray
Yikes, that's not helpful. Maybe I'll figure out how to embed Backtype links at the end blog posts, which I just noticed here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
- Stephen Francoeur
Peter, were you using the my comments elsewhere or the connect plugin? Unfortunately we did not create, nor do we maintain the my comments elsewhere plugin (it just uses our API). I'd be happy to help you hack it so it picks comments up more frequently.
- Mike Montano
Startup News - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"There are a bunch of coworking spaces in the city. I think all have monthly fees, but you can drop in and check them out: http://citizenspace.us/http:... Panera in SOMA is right beside the caltrain and has lots of outlets."
- Mike Montano
Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"You're right, it does increase the delay. It's more of an example of how Gearman can be used. Also, I _hate_ the idea of running an MTA on 30 machines that shouldn't be sending mail."
- Mike Montano
Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"Perhaps I'm getting hung up on the semantics. We use it more to farm out function calls, rather than passing content or delivering large messages. The one time I tried to use it for large amounts of data I did have issues with memory and latency. For simple RPC-style use (millions per day) though, our server has been stable (no change in memory or latency) for months without a restart."
- Mike Montano
Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"To clarify, Gearman is not meant to be used as a message queue, but instead it's a job server. The example in the post is an interesting use case (and convenient for us because we were already using it as a job server), but not really what it's designed for. I'll follow up with a post on how we use it to do work."
- Mike Montano
Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"Are you now using Beanstalkd instead? What kinds of jobs were you submitting? I've also run into problems using the python client handling errors, failover, and reconnects. But no issues with the C API, processing about 5 million jobs a day."
- Mike Montano
Banda larga: ma la crisi è solo italiana? - http://blog.armandoleotta.com/2009...
non so se dorme più twitter o backtype oggi...
- ArMyZ
test
- Mike Montano
Track Keywords & Brand Names in Comments: BackType Alerts - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/backtyp...
"Ann, thanks for the great post. Indu, while alerts are for mentions in comments, search on the site itself is for what’s being said about that topic. It includes the post, comments, and more to try find the best conversations."
- Mike Montano
Tweetcount Now Supports Bit.ly, Su.pr, Digg, TinyURL & More - http://blog.backtype.com/2009...
"Actually, can you shoot me an email at mm [at] backtype? I can send you the set of changes (we haven’t incorporated them back into our version of the plugin)."
- Mike Montano
Tweetcount Now Supports Bit.ly, Su.pr, Digg, TinyURL & More - http://blog.backtype.com/2009...
"Hi Rob, We’ve had a few users modify the plugin to make it work for MU. Will follow up shortly w/ a link or details of the changes."
- Mike Montano
Add a Stylish Custom Backtype Tweetcount Retweet Widget to your Blog - http://chethstudios.blogspot.com/2009...
"Hi Johan, you can set the button location to manual and then echo backtype_tweetcount() anywhere in your template/theme that you want it displayed. See http://wordpress.org/extend... for a bit more, or contact me at support [at] backtype if I can be of further assistance."
- Mike Montano
Search for wordpress — BackType - http://www.backtype.com/search...
commentary on today's wp stuff
- Mike Montano
from Bookmarklet
After 725 comments everywhere (thanks @backtype) else I can only wonder what "blogging" again might be like.
Andrew Trinh, Nicholas James and mjc liked this
Hey Jay, a few months ago we made some fundamental changes that would have affected the my comments elsewhere plugin -- since we didn't create it and don't maintain it I was worried it might stop working for most users. It's still working for you? Did I help you with a small fix (I can't remember anymore).
- Mike Montano
Hey Mike -- the plugin is kinda hit or miss as I disable/enable when I do a WP upgrade. :) I'll review backtype again to see if there is a more direct method if integrating comments elsewhere. Any recommendations?
- Jay Cuthrell
Well, if you're familiar with PHP, there is a regex in it that expects the IDs of the comments to be ints, that is no longer the case, so simply changing the expression to accept a hex string instead should make it work again. You must have made some change if it's working -- but I could be wrong, like I said we didn't create it so I'm not totally familiar with the code.
- Mike Montano
I think the my comments elsewhere plugin is still your best option. You can retrieve all your comments from backtype via rss or our api too so it wouldn't be hard for someone to improve on the "comments elsewhere" experience.
- Mike Montano
Roger that. I've got both the backtype-connect in there as well now. I'm using the comments-elsewhere for embedding at http://fudge.org/my-take/ but if I can figure out how to do the same thing with backtype-connect I'll try that too.
- Jay Cuthrell
BTW -- what sold me in the first place was that your service found some of my earliest comments on TechCrunch in 2006 :)
- Jay Cuthrell
The New BackType - http://blog.backtype.com/2009...
"Thanks — lot’s of improvements to come quickly."
- Mike Montano
The New BackType - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Bryan Landers liked this
"Aditya, thanks for the feedback -- if anything this latest release reflects that we are much more focused on solving search problems as they relate to both consumers and businesses. Previously BackType was viewed as a toolset for comment authors, bloggers, and businesses -- features like subscriptions, claiming your own comments, etc still exist but they are more buried for those power users. We're working hard on improving our search :)"
- Mike Montano
Someone somewhere needs to come up with a app/service that allows us to check our comments from various services in one place.
Bruce Lewis, Citronella, Jim Goldstein and 11 other people liked this
For example, I'd like to read comments made by people on FriendFeed AND people on Google Reader for the same article in one place.
- Kol Tregaskes
something like this http://www.backtype.com?
- Chirag Chamoli
There is a lot of overlap now that a lot of people are using GReader a lot more, it would be very cool if all these comments for the same article can be read in one place.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chirag, something like BackType and Disqus, for sure, though would prefer it on something like FF or even Google Wave.
- Kol Tregaskes
Feedly does part of the job, and also when browsing web pages
- Olivier
Kol, you don't need something like that - I have seen you in 3 social media places at once... clearly you've been cloned!!! :-)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
the comments just need to be available as a protected/private feed, then you can check them anywhere you like *crosses fingers*
- immaterial
I would like to view the comments per article. So for this entry I would like to see all comments from FF, GReader, etc. Not be user and not split over difference services.
- Kol Tregaskes
Didn't Scoble say Echo would do that?
- Sriks7
Sriks7, Echo?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes Echo!
- Sriks7
What is Echo?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, Chirag isn't talking about using backtype the way you use Disqus. He's talking about backtype alerts. You don't have to install it your blog.
- Bruce Lewis
So with BackType alerts I get alerts for comments from my friends on services like FF, FB and GReader on posts I share and they share?
- Kol Tregaskes
Nobody can get data from FB. Actually I'm not sure about greader either. They aggregate all public comments, though.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Kol, BackType Alerts send you emails when someone mentions a keyword in a comment. BackType connect (which can be used on our site or as a plugin, or even if you use Disqus we help power their reactions feature) will show you all the ff comments, tweets, digg, reddit, hacker news comments for a url. It will even show comments from posts that link to a post. If you want to see where your...
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- Mike Montano
Mike, I guess the question is where I want to read all this, yes in one place but FF is, of course, my preferred choice of reading stuff. Basically I have lots of comments from my posts in FriendFeed, Google Reader and now Facebook and would like to read all the comments in one place.
- Kol Tregaskes
Currently stuck in this tornado in TO - http://vitus.posterous.com/current...
"btw, are you using the new posterous iphone app? you should check it out, it's really nice (since you switched from sleek nokias to hipster iphones :P)"
- Mike Montano
Currently stuck in this tornado in TO - http://vitus.posterous.com/current...
"what are you doing at a bus stop? gg"
- Mike Montano
If we don't want to launch with a clean slate, there will be some need to migrate data/ETL from people's existing streams.
metalerik, Kol Tregaskes, vijay and 3 other people liked this
I've understood that Directeur was working on an FriendFeed export tool. I assume that the FriendFeed clone will have full import/export, like Wordpress has, or - maybe better comparison - like Delicious.com has.
- Meryn Stol
A great amount of that data will be imported if a person re-adds that field. I think things like comments get tricky - the person who "owned" the item the comment is on may not want their data moved to another service.
- Nick Lothian
[Removed some BS here] Nick, normally when you post a comment to a blog (which is - IMO - very similar to posting a comment on a post in someone's FF stream) the blog owner gets to "manage" these comments themselves. They are included with import and export and such. That doesn't mean that the blog owner suddenly gets copyright over these comments... I consider backing up comments to be fair use.
- Meryn Stol
If you don't want your comments to appear in a database - be it from Google, FriendFeed, or someone's personal database - don't post it.
- Meryn Stol
Likewise, comment services like backtype lets you aggregate all your comments on disparate services all over the web in one place. So it goes both ways. I think it's fair to collect/export all your comments from FriendFeed, and all your posts PLUS its comments as well. Downloading other people posts/threads is a different matter.
- Meryn Stol
At this very moment, all comments I make on FriendFeed (whereever they are made) appear in my backtype feed. I might even be able to download them. I'm not sure about that. Will have to check. ( http://www.backtype.com/meryn ) Checked: No, I can't download them. But in principle, anyone could write a backtype-like service which does allow export.
- Meryn Stol
@meryn I have found the guys from BackType to be quite responsive, someone should ask them to create an export option. Thanks for the tip, I had forgotten that they allowed import of FF comments, just set that up. Not sure of it will vacuum up all of the old comments up to now, or only from here forward. Not sure if in case the FF comments do get sucked in, that FF will pick them back up since I had BackType set up to be imported into FF. Comment Moebius strip/infinite recursion?!? :)
- Alex Schleber
Alex, let's just say that if the universe blows up, we now know it's your fault. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Some other interesting fact - which can serve as a kind of "precedent" - is that ReadWriteWeb uses a FriendFeed plugin for Movable Type (their blog software) which syncs the comments on their FF threads to their blog. So this way they get "control" over the comments posted on FriendFeed. At least, they appear in their database. I've not seen any people complaining about this practice.
- Meryn Stol
Should we also attempt to back-up images and other uploaded files?
- Tyson Key
Tyson, yes, although it doesn't have priority for me. I haven't done much uploading. I'm satisfied with links. And if the friendfeed.com links (uploads are stored there) fail to resolve at some point: Too bad. At least, that's the situation for me. I want to capture my verbal output. :)
- Meryn Stol
Aah, OK. I was just curious.
- Tyson Key
Alex, Meryn -- you could download/export your FF comments very easily with our API. I'm pretty sure you could do the same with FFs API though. Pls get in touch if we can help.
- Mike Montano
Ideally I would think it would back up everything, be it comments or images. However the comments might be more important because people probably have the files for re-upload (no guarantee of that mind you).
- Eoghann Irving
@michaelmontano thanks for being on the ball. The import of my FriendFeed comments into BackType appears to have worked well, and so far I haven't seen a duplication issue, though I hadn't commented since yesterday. We'll see what happens with this comment right here.
- Alex Schleber
Lifestream Mapping - http://benjaminkaram.com/lifestr...
"Mark, we include posterous comments as well so you can add those to your bt profile... and then you can pull them into friendfeed... etc."
- Mike Montano
Tweetcount Widget & Plugin - http://blog.backtype.com/2009...
"Hi Brian, It didn’t work for that post because your post permalink changed. We have all the tweets here: http://www.backtype.com/connect..."
- Mike Montano
FYI, if you were relying on BackType to track your FriendFeed mentions of your name, might want to check FF search. More here:
John E. Bredehoft and Jannifer @wordsforliving liked this
I'm noticing a lot of comments and posts BackType seems to be missing.
- Jesse Stay
I wish FriendFeed would release e-mail notifications for searches soon.
- Jesse Stay
Have you tried xfruit's rss to email? I think it might have a max of 100 items per day, though. http://www.xfruits.com
- April Russo (app103)
Jesse, we only make comments searchable (atm), so wrt the post you commented on just a second ago, we didn't notify you of because the mention was in the post.
- Mike Montano
Mike, ah - that's why then. I wish there was a way to get the posts via email too then.
- Jesse Stay
Do a search here, words in title, grab the feed url from the bottom of the page and try it with xfruits rss to email.
- April Russo (app103)
thanks for bringing this up. while most of our users that claim disqus have their accts tied to their blogs, adding it to your bt still allows us to make sure we have those blogs you comment on. moving fwd if there is no url tied to your disqus account, but the comment is not anonymous, it will work with backtype profiles. btw they were always being indexed, just not tied to your account properly.
- Mike Montano
eek -- sorry for that confusing response, basically, it will work as you originally expected from now onwards.
- Mike Montano
These are not my comments. How's this happening? See Backtype pic below; my picture Arrington, Siegler, Dan Romero's names....
That's the home feed — which shows comments you've claimed as well as comments written by people you're following. In this case, you've claimed comments that don't belong to you. You need to claim URLs that you enter in the "Website/URL" field of comment forms, not the URLs of blogs you comment on http://www.backtype.com/home...
- Christopher Golda
Mark, I actually fixed it already on our end, but I only removed TC, you should still check the page Chris linked to see if any of the other URLs are not yours.
- Mike Montano
Thanks, Christopher and Mike; I really appreciate the help.
- Mark Evans
I'm looking for a WordPress 2.8-compatible plug-in that integrates FriendFeed comments with native comments. I host my own blog and can hack comments.php. I've tried the two existing WordPress plug-ins with no luck. Anyone got this working?
Brian, Mike Montano, Susan Beebe and 5 other people liked this
The two I've tried are by Glenn Slaven (http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpre...) and Gürkan Oluc (http://www.gurkanoluc.com/friendf...). Neither seem to work with 2.8 and both haven't been touched in a long time.
- Stephen Mack
No luck so far, and not able to get ahold of Glenn or Gurkan.
- Stephen Mack
Backtype connect works great for me
- Jorge Escobar
I've integrated BackType connect on my blog, took some tweaking of their code, etc. as my Wordpress is very customized. Plus I didn't like the standard wording of their social comment headers. Example: http://businessmindhacks.com/post...
- Alex Schleber
Alex -- I've finally gotten around to using BackType and love it. But even more I love how you added service logos to your version. Have you published your changes anywhere?
- Stephen Mack
Just started using BackType connect. There's clearly room for improvement. It'd be nice if it would get the avatar URLs of users from Twitter or FB, for example. Maybe when we have good comment metadata in WP it will be better able to do that.
- Otto
@Samuel: Thanks for trying BTC! The Twitter avatars should begin working again soon :)
- Christopher Golda
Ahh, yes, I see the problem. It's using the SPIURL project, which is constantly over quota. Fair enough. Might be better to host your own version of the project on a different appspot account.
- Otto
We've hosted our own version, if you update the plugin you should have no problems now.
- Mike Montano
rebooted a crashed ec2 instance on Saturday... it just came back online now.
eek. i just started using ec2/s3 on a project. was it easy enough to create a new instance off your AMI backups and get up and running again without having to wait for the crashed instance? messed with EBS at all? i'm sort of into the idea of decoupling app code repository, server setup, database, and media files.
- Bryan Landers
yes, it was very easy to get a new instance started. We use ebs and store db snapshots in s3. one of the biggest benefits with aws, for me, is the ability to have a flexible and on demand development environment. If I need to test a new piece of code against a production sized database for just a few minutes/hours then it takes no time at all and costs pennies to boot a couple machines, mount the appropriate snapshots and get started.
- Mike Montano
good call on the quick, large-scale tests. thanks for sharing, mike. i setup a cloudkick account, too, but i haven't done much with it yet. i'm such a sucker for YC services ;)
- Bryan Landers
Is there a WordPress plug-in to automatically push new posts to FriendFeed via the API?
Nicola Greco, Robert Higgins, (jeff)isageek and 100 other people liked this
Instead of just having a new post show up as a title and a link when the system gets around to checking your feed, you could push an excerpt and an image to FriendFeed the instant the post goes up.
- Ken Sheppardson
There is a WordPress plugin to support SUP, which would accomplish the "instant" part of your goal: http://wordpress.org/extend.... To get images you just need to support MediaRSS (I believe there is also a WordPress plugin for that).
- Benjamin Golub
Cool, where do I sign...........?
- Kevin J Hatton
Nice idea!
- Don Bonaddio
Nice. I will use this... Thank ;)
- Semih Masat ™
Benjamin: I knew somebody'd mention SUP :-) I'd rather not add some intermediate service/protocol, I just want the ability push directly via a single plug-in, preferably with a UI component that gives you control over what image or images are added, select the excerpt, select what groups the post goes to, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
What I want is probably similar to what Ken you want - something to push the title & link& image as a post, and an excerpt as a comment to FriendFeed, which would then go to Twitter. The group selecter would be ultra cool on top of that
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, I'm using PUB-Sup, but what would be even more interesting is something that pushes, and tracks comments of the pushed post at the same time. I'd like to have real-time comments on each blog post.
- Jesse Stay
You're too cool to just grab your own RSS feed?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: Yes.
- Ken Sheppardson
;) gotcha
- Matthew DeVries
Ken: Have you seen this one: http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpre...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Just found it, looking into it now
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
WP-Sup (http://neothoughts.com/wp-sup/) + MediaRSS (http://wordpress.org/extend...) plugins will do the job
- Bwana ☠
Rob: Cool. Looks like Sudar's around http://friendfeed.com/sudar Maybe he'll drop by...
- Ken Sheppardson
Just sent him a tweet. Hopefully he'l join us :) Looks to be in india
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The SUP plugin doesn't add an intermediate protocol. It does exactly what FriendFeed wants from your site. It adds a line of code to your header and pings their API everytime you publish. Works perfectly to publish posts realtime to FriendFeed (and then on to Twitter, etc.) In fact, I've still not got used to publishing a post and seeing a notification on my desktop from FriendFeed from my post a half second later.
- Joss Winn
OK, I get it, guys. I know how SUP works and I know you can use SUP and MediaRSS to accomplish what I want. But I don't want to ping some API to tell it to go pull something from a feed... I want to make a single call to the FriendFeed API designed for creating entries http://code.google.com/p...
- Ken Sheppardson
Shouldn't be that hard to build. You can do it Ken :)
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: I think Sudar has already. :-) I'm going to put his implementation through its paces over the weekend.
- Ken Sheppardson
Oh ok cool... Hmmm.. I'd try it, but I'm not sure how it'll affect Backtype Connect on my blog. I want to be sure the FF comments get pulled in correctly.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: not sure exactly what you want to try - but in general any entry that links to your posts will be connected by BT Connect -- we do of course try our best to cut out things like auto snippets of text that appear as comments when using the FF bookmarklet.
- Mike Montano
Mike - I just wanted to be sure if I remove my RSS feed from FriendFeed and use this solution, will my comments get pulled back into my blog. I gather the plugin would have to only link to my blog from FriendFeed, and Backtype does the rest
- Bwana ☠
Yeah, it seems like once the plugin creates the entry on FriendFeed with a link to your blog post, you're home free, no matter how that entry is created.
- Ken Sheppardson
I like I like
- Michael Ehline
Hi Guys, nice to know that the Plugin (Post2FF) which I created around 9 months back is of use to someone :) I am take the code dust it off and will add the new features that you requested. Stay tuned :)
- Sudar
Awesome! Thank you very much Sudar!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Of note, Sudar: it would be most handy if we could select the link that is published on the entry - either the linkt ot the blog entry or the ff.im link. (wasn't clear to me if the API actually supports this?) On most of my blog posts, I'd like to direct people straight to the post, but someone or some entries might prefer linking to the FriendFeed post/discussion
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I am done with the modifications to my Plugin to add new features like choosing the room to which the link to be posted, selecting images etc. Will release it after completing the testing. If anyone is willing to do beta testing, just ping me.
- Sudar
I'd love to give it a try :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yay Sudar with his remedy to dust off (Post2FF)
- Janaree Nore
Sudar: Ping. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken, Please DM your email address and I will send the Plugin for beta testing. If everything goes well, I will be able to release the Plugin tomorrow by this time.
- Sudar
Sudar, sounds interesting. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So guys, finally I have updated my Post to FriendFeed Plugin with support for rooms. You can get the new version at http://sudarmuthu.com/blog...
- Sudar
Also let me know if you face any issues.
- Sudar
I want it thanks Sudar!
- Robert Freeze
Are we able to do the revere post from FF -> Wordpress, not as a rss thing but as a post?
- Chirag Chamoli
@Chirag, I am not sure if I understood your question. Can you explain it a bit?
- Sudar
nice! like the idea Ken.
- .LAG liked that
I wanted to understand If I can autopost from friendfeed to Wordpress. I am using the rss feed in the sidebar, instead I want the stuff to be added to wordpress as a post.
- Chirag Chamoli
from email
@Chirag, You can install WP-O-Mattic WordPress Plugin (http://devthought.com/project...) and use the FF rss as input to publish from FF -> WordPress. (I haven't tried it, so not sure if it will work 100%)
- Sudar
@Sundar: Thanks I will start working on that.
- Chirag Chamoli
As I understand it SUP won't work for Feedburner feeds.
- Rutger Blom
I am interested in using Sundar's plugin. Is it compatible with WordPress 2.8.3?
- Skyler Call
@Skyler Call, It should be compatible, since it doesn't use any functions which were changed in 2.8+ Anyways I will check it and will bump up the supported version in readme file.
- Sudar
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