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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
May 26 at 8:44 pm - Link
Can I like my own share? :-) This was a good story. I'm glad XKCD is doing so well. - Louis Gray
*boggle* - Adam Seever
"Sudo make me a sandwich" - Zak K.
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Louis Gray posted a link
FriendFeed + Google Reader Are One
May 26 at 9:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
It is a beautiful thing. - Louis Gray
mmm...tasty 2.0-ness - Simon
nice mockup - Duncan Riley via twhirl
What? How? Who? When? Photoshop? - Matt Hooper
Not a mockup. :-) - Louis Gray
How did you pull this off? I want! I want! - Michael Beck
Give up the goods, pimp! I gots to have that sweet setup. Share :) - Rahsheen™
Greasemonkey? - Tanath
dont be a tease, if it's not a mockup, share!!!! :-) - Duncan Riley
Not greasemonkey - Louis Gray
LOL... nice screenshot. ;) - Matt Shaulis
So Matt, care to tell them how this works? - Louis Gray
Que es? - Hutch Carpenter
Three hairs from a wild boar mixed with a frog's eye and some dragon blood. Mixed in a cauldron... brought to the highest peak of the widest mountain... oh wait.. it's not all the magical at all, is it? - Matt Shaulis
I'm confused. What do you want, Michael? It's Google Reader with the Friendfeed header. I took this as a snarky commentary to the amount of Google Readerness on Friendfeed. I'm missing a joke, aren't I? I do that all time time. Damn. - Mark Trapp
As a sidenote: what a pain in the ass it is to add people's shared feeds to your google reader account. Why do I have to have a gmail account and add people from there? - Mark Trapp
Mark, it's not a joke. It's a bookmarklet that puts Google Reader into FriendFeed. More details soon. - Louis Gray
1) Google Domain or 2) a theme for google reader ? (DOH!! Louis gave the answer while I was typing) - martin english
Louis, thanks for the clarification. I'm not getting it; anxiously awaiting deets. - Mark Trapp
excellent mashup! I can haz copy of UR kode? - Susan Beebe
That sounds quite awesome. As another sidenote: anyone know of a bookmarklet or something to add feeds directly to Google Reader? - Rahsheen™
@Rahsheen you can get that through Toluu, I'm pretty sure. - Matt Shaulis
nice hack! - Wil
Your Google reader looks broken. It doesn't say (1000+) :) - Andrew Smith
@Rahsheen: If you use Firefox, there's usually a feed icon (orange radar-type thing) in the address bar you can click. Firefox should offer to let you add it to Google Reader or iGoogle. I think there's a setting somewhere if it doesn't... - Tanath
Ah! I did notice that today. Thanks, Tanath! I'll give that a shot. - Rahsheen™
Here's how it works. http://tinyurl.com/4ps9qs Thanks to Matt Shaulis (Sign up to him on FriendFeed and @mattshaulis on Twitter) Great guy on a strong Shyftr team. - Louis Gray
That's actually pretty cool. Nice quick way to check your Greader account from Friendfeed. Neat! - Mark Trapp
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Erica Baker posted a message
“If this is the age of the nerd, why aren't there any science bars? I wan mix your own chemistry experiment drinks and TV's tuned to the Discovery channel, please and thank you very much.”
May 25 at 1:37 pm - Link
you should do it! - edythe
Well, a lot of us nerds don't drink or don't drink that much anymore. Too busy building robot girlfriends since the real once won't flirt with us. - RAPatton
You've never heard of BarCamp, I guess. That's a "bar" for nerds. - Robert Scoble
Will you please move back to ATL before opening this bar? I promise to get hammered there as often as possible :) - Joel Webber
Robert Scoble, that you would even mention BarCamp is soo nerdy! - edythe
erica, i'm telling you, i think it's a winner. write up a business plan. - edythe
Not really a bar, but I'm a fan of the Linux Caffe in Toronto -- good coffee, good eats, good art, and they'll toss you an Ubuntu CD if you need one. - Trent Olson
who needs a bar when you have FF for all you need. I don't drink and drive, so there is no use for me to go to bar!!...via feedalizr - Paul
We have a bar called "Science Bar" in DC - Andrew Feinberg
"Hey baby, photosynthesize often?" Oops, can't believe I just planted that there :P - Adam Lasnik
hee. photosynthesize. obscene! - edythe
@edythe If I knew anything about running a business or writing a business plan, I would. - Erica Baker
it's also the age of self-instruction. go for it. - hisherness
Digg
Chris Brogan dugg a story on Digg
May 18 at 3:39 am - Link
I am waiting for thunder to upgrade my Curve - Tim FitzGerald
I can't wait! - Sarah Austin
I'm stoked... the only thing is whether we can use the BB way of typing or if I get stuck with the iPhone way of typing. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart via twhirl
so much for my cool BB Curve... there goes my cool factor ...dang it! - Susan Beebe
"exclusive to Verizon Wireless" Blah! - "Czar" DJ Peterman
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Darren Rowse posted a message
“so 'rooms' are fun - but here's a wishlist item - what about if they allow people to host them on their own domains? ”
May 24 at 8:07 pm - Link
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Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader
May 24 at 2:22 am - Link
i use firefox on Win Vista! - MrWill
I would think that Firefox with 1000+ extensions installed running on UNIX would be the highest IQ group. :D - possible248
i think this is, at best a good conversation starter. there have got to be factors that better correspond with browser choice. would we all be talking about it if the survey compared browser choice to length of some body part - feet, for example? - marty nickel via twhirl
Not that shocking to think if you're on a Win98 machine you might be moving a little slower naturally (to be taken lightly, sounds kind of harsh). - Julian Baldwin
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Josh Bancroft shared an item on Google Reader
May 14 at 11:16 am - Link
This just got a lot more interesting than the yet-to-come Atom version of the Asus Eee PC. - Josh Bancroft
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Scott Beale shared an item on Google Reader
Bill O'Reilly Freaks Out Off Camera
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May 12 at 9:27 am - Link
Ahahahahahah...*inhale*...hahahahahaha.... :-) - cmiper
Muhahaha :D - Mithandir
Where did *THAT* come from? (and: what is it?) - Alex von Halem
Removed due to copyright. Oh well. - Bwana McCall
Removed due to insanity, more like. Glad I was on FF and got to see it b4 it was removed. Actually: I'm not sure I should be so glad. Some things are better kept under the rug. - Alex von Halem
That was great - Lee Stranahan via Alert Thingy
They are taking them down as soon as a new copy goes up. Try here, maybe NSFW ads. http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - cmiper
love it! - sixbit
Ok, that was pretty funny. Pure frustration. - Bwana McCall
Gawker has re-posted the video http://gawker.com/5008668/bill... - Scott Beale
That was great. (thanks for the link Scott) - Alejandro S.
Dang it, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. asserted a copyright claim with YouTube before I got a chance to see it! - Michael Beck
Is this hosted somewhere else? - Steve Lynch
It's on the College Humor site still... http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - cmiper
Goes to show: you can't remove something from the internet. If you act like a douche in front of a camera, you're going to have to live with it. Thanks for the laughs, Bill. - ben bloch
Really. What a douche. - Alex von Halem
I've worked on the telephone with reporters and producers from ABC News, and.....they do get this upset....that's one of the reasons I quit, I couldn't handle talking to these people anymore. - Matrixx333
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Bret Taylor posted a link
xkcd - Making Hash Browns
May 9 at 11:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I love how FriendFeed shows the image inline. Very nice - Bartek Gniado
The mouse-over text isn't right though... - Laurence Gonsalves
Yeah, that's one of xkcd's "things", You should click thru to the site to see the mouseover. I only discovered them after I'd been reading xkcd for a few weeks (how slow am I, lol) and it brought a whole new level of understanding to the whole thing for me. - Slippy Lane
WOoOW! - Maryam Ardakani
always loved xkcd! - Selma
Love XKCD. Hate FF breaking the mouseover. - James Polley
... breaking the mouseover makes you click through to xkcd though... right... I mean otherwise you'd miss the hidden message! - Ross Miller
بچه‌هاي فرندفيد: اقايون/خانوما. بياين حال اين خارجكيها رو بگيريم و تو اين كامنتدوني شروع كنيم در مورد اين تصوير كامنت بگذاريم.لطفا نظرتون رو در مورد اين تصوير بگين - mhmazidi
ترجمه کامنت قبلیم: واو! سمایلی مگه ما سادیسم داریم؟! :دی - Maryam Ardakani
@mhmazidi اتفاقا این وب سایت رو خیلی وقته که دنبال می کنم...کمیک های خیلی خیلی جالبی داره...فقط یک کمی سنگینه و گیکیه به قول خودمون ...چیز جالبیه بهش سر بزنید گاهی ... (اسمایلی این هم سهم من در کامنت فارسی) ه - Selma
it would be nice if friendfreed could perform some basic translation if the user set it that way ;) - Hernan Garcia via twhirl
Ich "mag" Hernans Kommentar. [Translation: I "like" Hernan's comment.] - Philipp Lenssen
hehe ...i think we have managed to provoke some curiosity :D - Selma
@mhmazidi می تونم هدفتون رو از این حرکت بدنم ؟ - Navid Kashani
haha, you're totally right @Selma - Hernan Garcia via twhirl
new methods in cooking - atalmatal
Is there any decent automated Farsi <-> English translation system available on the web? - Jim Norris
I believe that's Farsi, not Arabic? - ⓞnor
Yes it is Farsi (Persian) language ...and no ...as a professional translator I have not seen any efficient automated translation system for it yet (some students here are working on that), especially since the lines here are written in a broken informal style which makes it even more difficult to convert. - Selma
Selma, care to comment on the general jist of the conversation that took place in this thread? - Mark Trapp
Oh lol…definitely... sorry! Dr. Mazidi just commented there to share the picture with the Persian Friendfeed users as well as letting the English users know we do need a translating system ;) … I commented on the fact that I have been regularly following xkcd (I'm not a geek…it's just a phase that I'm going through :D) and advised others to do so as well… Navid was wondering why we were commenting in Farsi … we were also wondering if it might tickle other people's curiosity … our experiment proved effective! :p - Selma
I love this!! Thanks Bret!! who created this? too cool! - Susan Beebe
down with xkcd - niniane
I see what you did there, niniane. - Slippy Lane
Haha, thaks Selma. I was wondering what was going on :) - Mark Trapp
Am I the only one who finds it annoying that this story is constantly being pushed up due to comments? I understand the point, but I've seen this on my FriendFeed every day for the past week and a half - Bartek Gniado
bart: my subconscious had the exact same reaction. I love xkcd but I was getting sick of this one. I guess it's time to start using the hide function. - Alex von Halem
Bart, hide feature, I believe you two haven't met. I'll leave you two to get acquainted. - Mark Trapp
@Mark Good point ;) I totally forgot about it - Bartek Gniado
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Brian Daniel Eisenberg posted a message
“I effen love how Friendfeed Digg entries link directly to the story and not to the Digg link. That's my biggest complaint against Techmeme and the like. Too many extra clicks to get to the meat. These Friendfeed guys are doing everything right! Summize too!”
May 10 at 11:42 pm - Link
I've liked how reddit does that in my rss feed - linking the story - vs how digg's rss links to digg.com - acedanger the maverick via twhirl
I didn't like this "feature". I'd rather see the Digg link first and see the context; e.g. how's the Digg community liking the article. Ideally, we could get BOTH links (1) direct to article (2) digg link - Mitchell Tsai
Yeah. Links to both would be best. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Agreed, If I read a story I want to be able to digg it without hunting it down on their site. - Stepan Mazurov
So it's okay that FriendFeed owns a conversation, but not okay for Digg to? There's still a lot of conversation on Digg. If FF's fragmentation is okay, and revered, why not Digg's? - Cyndy
Techmeme's RSS feed has both links. Twitter only gives you 140 chars, so I chose Techmeme permalinks over story links because the former permits access to the second, but not the other way around. (And both have value.) - Gabe Rivera
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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter
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Sanjeev Singh posted a link
May 11 at 9:37 am - Link
What happened? - Ionut
Server troubles. We're still investigating exactly what triggered it. - Paul Buchheit
I reckon it was a case of Murphy's law's third addendum: "If something cannot possibly go wrong, and it is the weekend, that thing will go wrong.". I propose a revision - Murphy's law's third addendum as applied to startups - "If it is the weekend, and everything is working, nothing will go wrong, but it will still cause a system outage." - Slippy Lane
i had a problem this morning where ff was taking ages to load the "Comment - Hide - More" panel but it seems to have gone now - Ian Rathbone
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Eric Rice posted a message
“I'm curious if people will actually treat FF as a destination site, or just dump their feeds here and never look back. This post will probably only see a few comments here. Hmmmm. Anyway, happy tuesday, everyone. :)”
March 18 at 9:00 am - Link
BTW, if you comment on flickr photos here, you aren't part of the conversation at flickr. Same with my blog. We should just close comments everywhere, huh? Social media is so freaking inconsiderate. Maybe big media is on to something with that publisher/consumer model. Sayin'. - Eric Rice
I just saw this message randomly. I visit FriendFeed once every other week. So I guess that tells you something. I basically put my feeds up because, if other people want to follow me here, I see no reason not to let them. (also because I was curious, I guess) So far social media strikes me as particularly self-oriented. Conversation? What conversation? - Richard Moriarty
I love your "old media's got some things right" riff lately - hilarious - Scott Breakall
Thanks Scott, I wish it wasn't so depressing though. Heh. - Eric Rice
blah blah blah blah comment comment comment. ;-) actually i check it at least once a day, usually more like 4 times. - Sarah Vela
I'm spending more time on friendfeed lately because I've been working behind a corporate firewall that blocks twitter. - Rob Safuto
@rob until FF is blocked heh. - Eric Rice
Eric, this is much different than something like Pownce, (where I do just dump all my feeds). This is evolving conversations. - tagami
@eric indeed. My backup is an ipod touch that can pick up twitter via hahlo.com. - Rob Safuto
@ted IF it is used as such. Like Twitter, it kinda got ganked into a chat room by some (me included). It's VERY easy to import crap here (inline,like jaiku) and never come back. Also, look at how scattered and dysfunctional all the commenting is now. You can comment here on a blog post (cuz i pipe it in), but guess what? You aren't part of my blog's convosphere. That's why I'm pondering if this is a dumphole. The only reason this conversation exists here is because I'm forcing it to start here, as a test. - Eric Rice
I was thinking something similar to Eric earlier. If I reply to a Tweet here, does it use the Twitter API and the fact I have authenticated my Twitter account to turn that into a proper Twitter reply? And what about threaded replies? - David Owens
Nothing wrong with having a separate community. If they don't see your reply, fine. Someone else will, and you can discuss it with them as well as others. If you must have that functionality, then SocialThing is your best bet. Some people don't want to have a separate discussion outside of the original realm. In that case, FriendFeed is not for you. For me, I actually enjoy it. - Bwana McCall
Eric, is it such a bad thing to have many different conversations happening, out of view of the original creator of the content? I'm starting to think that the notion of one big comment thread for all to see is feeling very outdated. - Mike Doeff
@mike not a bad thing per se, but it increases the time we spend finding all the conversation (IF the tools are easy enough to use to do this for us). It has a bit of disorganization vibe to it. @bwana yeah I agree, I have many communities that don't even touch things like twitter etc. But I think that's a context/topic reason, not a scattered workflow one :) - Eric Rice
@david social thing is working on that where you can reply from one place to all. - Eric Rice
I'm curious if you would have gotten more feedback on this on Twitter or your blog in the same time period. - Bwana McCall
@bwana blog no, twitter maybe. This is a FriendFeed exclusive conversation. And if I had done it on Twitter, I'd have two places to follow the conversation, Twitter, here, and also Jaiku since I think it ports there. I *never* check Jaiku anymore at all. A comment there is like a comment to the wind. - Eric Rice
I listen on a number of info streams and just respond where I saw the item - but yes, the tipping point for me will be the first site that cleanly implements oauth. then I will be able to have only one active read stream and it will handle the writes as I don't think I will ever have all my friends on a single site. - Mike Taylor
interesting. yeah. like this. maybe... thanks, eric. - Barbara K. Baker
No but i do not check it as often -- maybe using this as twitter + client hmmm... - John Anthony Hartman
I'd like to integrate it with my Main Blog eventually, but I'm a n00b atm. So far, I just need time to set it up, after that I think I actually will use the app. its kind of like onXiam but more interactive. TY for turning me on to it Spin! - TheDiva Rockin
@bwana actually to reply again to your question, maybe more feedback, but as meaningful and coherent? hmmmm. - Eric Rice
@thediva the other way to use this is to totally import feeds and leave. For Consumers Only. And consumer-onlys are important, too. :) - Eric Rice
@eric First off, the comments here aren't limited to 140 chars which is nice. Second, it's Pownce-like. I like Pownce because you can post a subject and have people reply to it, just like here. However, FF seems to read in your feeds whereas Pownce doesn't. SocialThing (which is down at the moment) seems to do more because you can talk directly to the services with your login/password. It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out. EDIT: Apparently putting a newline in a comment doesn't work :P - Michael Gaines
@eric hmm....so comments are limited in size. The last thing I was going to say is that I dont' like the layout of FF. It needs work to organize everything better. - Michael Gaines
There is a weird stigma about turning off comments, because DIY social type media is "so democratized". Turning off comments is often perceived as anti-(that hustle). At least, thats what "they" tell me. Marinate. - Do You KNOW Clarence?
@dykc yeah I'm not buying that 'no comments/yes comments' hype anymore. It's your site, do what you want. If you aren't plagued by spam or idiots, already. We see what digg.com and YouTube brought us with the 'democracy'. More like anarchy. - Eric Rice
I personally don't really like forking the conversation. For the moment, I've dumped all my stuff in FriendFeed, connected to friends, but other than that, not using it. (yet?) - Stephanie Booth
thanks eric, opening up friend feed to me in a way i never knew possible.. jeez that sounds contradicting, not meant to be.. - danny payne
Pretty interesting how the @ symbol has made it's way over to commenting in friendfeed. Shows the strong influence Twitter has had on people. It would be nice to have @'s pushed back to twitter if that's at all possible. - Rob Safuto
Rob, I think it's more of an irc thing. A flat conversation style needs a name preceeding a statement to create context. Twitter kind of got that from irc imho. - Bwana McCall
I'm still not sure about services like Friendfeed and Socialthing... I already get most of the info from their blogs/facebooks/twitter-->and then it gets circular...I do like Socialthing on my iPhone though; I've been using that lately. Will probably end abrubtly. - Schlomo Rabinowitz
Thanks for clarifying Bwana. I'm not familiar with the irc etiquette. - Rob Safuto
I'm loving this backlash on social media and re-embracing of the old virtues of old media : ) - Prokofy Neva
Threaded commenting in FriendFeed is the glue many socnets need. - Bernie Goldbach
Okay - all set up! Mind you I did not connect my Pownce or Jaiku seeing how they are just echoing my Twitters. So, I guess I'm done here. :) - TheDiva Rockin
Yep, I've been using FF for some time now... love it. nice, simple 1 spot for most real-time social activity feeds. :-) pretty cool. - Susan Beebe
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Bay Chang favorited a video on YouTube
21 Accents
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March 5 at 9:54 am - Link
Hey FriendFeeders, I was going to favorite this video on YouTube, but realized that then there would be a third copy of this in the feed for the folks who are friends with Bay, Kevin, and me. Are y'all working on a way to aggregate links to the same content, or should I get used to redundancy? ;-) - Keith Pelczarski
We are working on it, I promise! Seriously, my name is next to it on the whiteboard :) - Bret Taylor
Ah, the redundancy question. I've been wondering about that myself. - Richard Hemmer
@Bret: Do you guys have a whiteboard like the one we've seen pictures of at Google? - Voyagerfan5761
I felt the same pressure to *not* favorite this video, for the same reason, but then decided that FriendFeed does not control me. In soviet russia I control friendfeed. - Bay Chang
Her "Toronto" accent isn't right. The accent she used is more typical of the maritime provinces or maybe the prairie provinces. A Toronto accent is actually closer to the Seattle accent than it is to that. - Laurence Gonsalves
Partially agree about "Toronto" - my first 24 years were spent there and I think I sound more like her Seattle one. But my sister is closer to her "Toronto" one. - Howard Trickey
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Jonathan Coulton posted a message on Twitter
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Alex Rainert posted an entry on EverydayUX
March 2 at 7:28 pm - Link
To answer your question: I primarily use the web site and email summary. If I am "connected" (e.g., at the office or around my laptop at home), I find the web interface optimized for what it does and most efficient. The email summaries are a great way to keep up to date when I am not constantly connected. - Bret Taylor
Thanks for the comment, Brett. Would you mind if I reposted it in the comments so they stay connected to the actual post? http://www.everydayux.com/2008... - Alex Rainert
And for us forward thinking types, How I want to use it http://lifestreamblog.com/a-li... - Mark Krynsky
FriendFeed
Philipp Lenssen posted a message
“How will Friendfeed deal with duplicates?”
February 27 at 3:07 am - Link
I'm seeing the same stories over in over (e.g. Story X shared in Google Reader by one contact, linked directly by another, and so on), spread into separated discussions. Just merging dupes seems not easily possible as everyone has different threads subscribed to depending on their selection of friends. It also makes you wonder on which of the many threads you want to add a comment if you want to share your view on Story X. - Philipp Lenssen
We're definitely thinking about the right way to handle this. - Paul Buchheit
Threading seems to be the most complex feature of this site, but it's being handled very well thus far. - Patrick Veverka
Umm …what threading? - John Lam
Well, in blogsphere, people use trackbacks to gather all comments together into the original post. Maybe it will also considerable to solve this overload duplicated content problem. - Yuancheng
The issue isn't duplication but seeing the pile-on as memetracking. Friendfeed should have a way to view based on this kind of convergence. If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know. - Stowe Boyd
"If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know." And then how can you comment on the meme/ story? Because you have potentially five different comment threads (which seemingly can't be easily merged either -- you can merge the story, of course, but these five threads are personal to you, others may have different combos). - Philipp Lenssen
Tabs? :) - ⓞnor
It's so tempting to want to repost this as "How will Friendfeed deal with duplicates?”, but I wouldn't do that. Nah. - Louis Gray
Is it more about the agglomerated stream or some discrete aggregation of those streams? - Andy Taylor
Also, what about duplicates within my own feed... Lets say I find something good in google reader, share it, stumble it, digg it, twitter it, and a couple other new verb its... that seems like a more manageable thing to reduce to just one item (such as Nathan Dugg, Shared, Stumbled and whatevered "this story" instead of reporting it 6 times. - Nathan Manley
Philipp, Newsvine has a neat feature, mostly unused. It lets readers break comments out into specific groups and among friends, away from the main comment thread. …and yes, @e3r, it uses tabs to do it. @NathanManley, i agree wholeheartedly. - John Lam
@Nathan, John: Reduction++ for me. I see the same story reported over and over in my feed. It will probably have to be based on the URL of the story (rather than the Stumble page or the Digg page or whatever), but I think that's already available so it shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps in the case of multiple friends sharing the same link, condensing those would also be useful... - Voyagerfan5761
@Voyager... Yea, it seems that most of those services you should be able to get the URL of the originating story from...of course if friendfeed is scraping the info from the different sites it would almost have to wait to publish it to your feed to see where else you put it (and how long should it wait?). - Nathan Manley
@Nathan: I don't think it should wait. If you do something on another site with the same URL, it should just update the one story. So "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon" could become "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon and Dugg it on Digg". See where that's going? I'm sure Kevin, Paul, and the rest of the FF team would have a better way to do it, but... Yeah. - Voyagerfan5761
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