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FriendFeed now 6x more awesomer with themes - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Martynas, Парадокс Смейла, Hugh Isaacs II and 72 other people liked this
"Individual expression is the heart of FriendFeed, and today we're excited to launch FriendFeed themes, with six new designs to choose from."
- Kol Tregaskes
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whoa! whoa!
- Jorge Escobar
Check them here: http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes! I felt it coming with this new design. Now just to allow custom theme creation...
- Brandon Titus
'Fresh' should be the default theme!
- Kol Tregaskes
Shame, none of the themes have the comment highlighting that we have with AJ's script. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
For some reason I like the minimalistic approach in 'Helvetica'
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, yeah it's pretty cool.
- Kol Tregaskes
Am liking the purple flowers :)
- Ken Morley
What is your favourite theme? I think mine is Blue Wave. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
helvetica rocks
- michael sean wright
the helvetica edition style (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) is much better than the new helvetica theme
- Doğaç Yavuz
com'on - Helvetica needs to have Friendfeed blue color at the top .. why black?
- Petr Buben
Micah says his scripts still work with the themes too: http://ff.im/4DlX9
- Kol Tregaskes
AJ, how about a version of your Cleaner FriendFeed script that *only* changes the commenting highlighting and thus works with all the new themes?
- Kol Tregaskes
I've asked AJ nicely. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol my favorite theme is Fresh :D
- Nimaa
Love these! I think Bamboo is my favorite
- Tamara
I took the 'Blue Wave' -> 'Helvetica' path
- Peter Warnock
Hey hey hey! Update is here -> http://friendfeed.com/friendf... ... just uninstall your old styles ;)
- AJ Batac
Helvetica is the best one!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
test driving helvetica, but I think I still prefer classic
- chrisofspades
Thanks, AJ, that's great! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I now have Bamboo!!!
- Joel Robert Perez
Comments are still grey on white, so fail. Thank God for userstyles and userscripts.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I'm loving the purple flowers atm.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Bamboo! Yay!
- Kamilah Gill
I will be thrilled when the switch is thrown on allowing control of how other's see my pages. A few suggestions. 1. All FF pages should be viewed along with whichever theme has been selected by the FF owner, if the person viewing the page is not logged into FF. 2. All registered users should be allowed go to settings and opt-out/opt-in to viewing of other FF user's themes, globally or ad-hoc. I know some are minimalist, but I am not and don't mind people choosing how they wish to portray themselves.
- Michael A. De Bose
+1 Michael. I agree about giving folks the choice, even though I'm indifferent as far as themes and customisation options go.
- Tyson Key
Can't wait to see the theme customization features and to have the ability to change how my page looks to other people.
- Hugh Isaacs II
Sadly, there are a number of previously avid friendfeeders who have more or less abandoned Friendfeed primarily for Twitter. I have no hard feelibgs but I would love to know the main reasons why...
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yep
- Josh Haley
Twitter is much easier than friendfeed to use from mobile phone. Also, it has a high level of chatter right now, which seems to be drawing people in, even ff users. Of course, not likely to get response from someone who has actually reverted to Twitter . . .
- Chris Rogers
from BuddyFeed
Lack of a FF program for the G1 keeps me on twitter, but I have it linked to FF and vice versa. When in front of a PC I use FF exclusively, when with only my cellphone available I'll use Twitter exclusively. I do not, however, do much communication with others on either service.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Actually got FF and twitter going n just about quit ecadamy n a few others a big mistake, so try to do them once a day at least, had 6 r 7 accounts now down to 3 r 4 do not seem to need more, When Work starts will probably fix it in 3 main and 1 minor or even less. "Times they are a changing"
- ThatDBD
Who?
- Rochelle
Zee - yep, I have seen that too. They let their twitter feed continue to populate FF, but they no longer contribute to the conversation here in FF.... sad
- Susan Beebe
Social networks are like the tide they ebb and flow. Sounds like a good excuse to make friends with newcomers.
- Davis Freeberg
i'd like a friendfeed client outside of a browser that doesnt use AIR. and more people I know IRL using it as well, or it just doesn't feel like much fun. I'll prolly dork with it a little bit more now that there are themes.
- rob friedman
I haven't seen Patricia Hanrahan in months and her account is gone. :(
- Josh Haley
The guy who got me into FF is now mostly on Twitter - Steve Isaacs. At least he still imports into FF.
- Josh Haley
There may be one other reason -not always pleasant to think about - but some circles of friends on FF appear to be closed. They aren't closed but I've seen entries suggesting this perspective. It's tricky because I've seen people postings that they were unsubscribing to other people, etc.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from BuddyFeed
I second on LLL and LPH's sentiments. I feel the same and have been participating less & less on my social networking accounts.
- imabonehead
I don't remember whether I used FF or Twitter 1st, but I know I went from Twitter -> FriendFeed & then back to Twitter for short status updates. I'm mostly on Friendfeed now
- LANjackal
more conversation, though even with threaded conversations, it's still harder to follow - wish it were going on here, but it isn't (at least not in psych and Buddhism)
- William Harryman
On the plus side, we can at least still see some of them if they left their FF accounts open and, if need be, contact them via Twitter. That's one of the beautiful things about this service. You can virtually abandon FF if you choose and still be found through it.
- Kamilah Gill
I haven't abandoned Twitter, but it's the other way around for me. There's more engagement here and I prefer that.
- Tamar Weinberg
I'm new to Friendfeed and wish I could get more people to come here as I like the conversations....but I cannot seem to get them to.
- Hummie
@Hummie: I guess FF's one of those services whose value/utility only becomes truly apparent when you get deeply involved in it
- LANjackal
Friendfeed can be kind of hard to break into. Seriously. Some people fart and get 50 responses, while some post decent stuff and get nothing.
- Suburban Oblivion
Friendfeed can be hard to follow if you don't "get" it, also, of those following a whole load of people the speed of the screen auto update can be daunting. I think also it's hard to pick up subscribers here, folks aren't as likely to follow you back here when you follow then, which for people who get an ego boost from their numbers is quite discouraging.
- Paul OFlaherty
@Suburban: As with all communities, you have to invest time and effort to get recognition. It also takes practice in knowing how to post stuff in a manner that grabs attention (pics & comments). I also have a lil theory that regardless of popularity, the average percentage of your friends who actively follow you remains about the same. People who get 30 likes just for sneezing usually have hundreds or thousands of subscribers
- LANjackal
I just looked at my feed, and realized most of my front page stuff is twitter. I took off my twitter feed since I am so active there, and am going to focus on just sharing content here, see if that helps. More content, less noise.
- Suburban Oblivion
The main reason I am spending more time on Twitter and less time on Friendfeed: Twitter permits me to scan much more news more quickly and efficiently than Friendfeed. Friendfeed could address this problem by offering the option to hide all comments and by providing options for more compact displays of posts.
- Sean McBride
Also: something is off about the social dynamics of Friendfeed: it's too cozy, too ingrown, too much like a BBS mainboard with a single community dominating the space. Twitter is much more diverse and much less unipolar. Friendfeed needs a much a broader user base. But Friendfeed is still a valuable and innovative piece of software, no matter how you cut it.
- Sean McBride
Twitter: Diverse but noisy; the chattering, unwashed masses. FriendFeed: Better S/N: less trendy == fewer idiots? Still using both. FriendFeed does need more diversity but otherwise is more useful. (Agreeing with Sean) Twitter is simple enough for an idiot to use, which leads to the inevitable result.
- Andy Dustman
Andy wrote: "Twitter: Diverse but noisy; the chattering, unwashed masses." Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many more high-quality feeds on Twitter than on Friendfeed. That is one of the key reasons I am spending much more time on Twitter these days. You need to explore Twitter feedspace more carefully. Begin by checking out which Twitter feeds the smartest Twitter users are following.
- Sean McBride
I'm much more likely to find someone I'm looking for on twitter than on FF, that's for sure. Case in point, yesterday I was looking for author Robin S Sharma: twitter yes, FF no. Shame really..
- Ade
Sean: Not saying there are no high-quality feeds, but rather that there are a lot of low-quality ones. The total volume of all traffic is much greater than FF from what I can tell. There are gems but there's a mountain of trash too. 95% of the people who try to follow me lately are bots or spammers, another example of Sturgeon's Law in action.
- Andy Dustman
The change to realtime is buzzkilling FFeed for me, personally. I know I could Scobleize my approach to using it, but the system damn well worked damn well before. I can't stand that I'm reading something--doesn't matter how long or short, and it disappears right before my eyes. And once it's gone, it's effectively GONE.I know there's the Giant Pause Button, but really, if I'm gonna...
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- abacab
It's the exact opposite for me. The fact that FriendFeed updates in real-time (no page refreshing, thank God) AND my Home Feed is extremely customizable (i.e. I can be very selective in what appears there) means that I see all of what I care about and very little of what I don't. Also, you *can* link to an individual post (the post time is hyperlinked)
- LANjackal
from IM
LANjackal -- have you tried using the latest version of Peoplebrowsr? Much zippier than Friendfeed.
- Sean McBride
for me, it was mostly the revamp of the UI...at simple as that sounds. I also started using tweetdeck. i still think FF has A LOT of great features (better even than twitter) for conversation
- stanleyyork
Andy -- it's easy on Twitter to follow only the high-quality feeds. 99.9% of Twitter traffic is invisible to me.
- Sean McBride
@Sean: Ummm who said i was complaining about FF's speed? It's eyeblink-fast as is. PeopleBrowsr is a cumbersome nightmare IMO (I don't like heavy webapps). FF + Digsby works perfectly for me as is @stanleyyork: Twitter doesn't even do chronological threading, it's a nightmare from a conversation standpoint
- LANjackal
from IM
I've almost done the opposite. I'm not at Twitter that much anymore. FriendFeed takes almost all of my online time :)
- Patrik Johansson
LANjackal -- by "zippier" I meant that one can navigate more material more efficiently in Twitter via Peoplebrowsr than in Friendfeed. Each right cursor press displays four new Twitter stacks (often, for me, search stacks) with five items visible in each stack -- 20 items per screen. That's damned zippy. And these are all high-quality stacks -- very little noise.
- Sean McBride
Sean: I don't have trouble finding good Twitter feeds. It's harder now that you don't see replies to people not on your follow list, though, and I've been following a lot fewer people since they did that, now that I think of it. I'm only saying there is proportionately more crap there, and more crap-generators trying to get you to follow them.
- Andy Dustman
LANjackal -- I just visited my Peoplebrowsr page, and discovered 15 high-value clickable Twitter links on a *single* screen. Damned slick, in my opinion. Admittedly, it took some tinkering to fine-tune this setup.
- Sean McBride
I mainly use Twitter due to a number of folks I need to follow for news - but I prefer FF if I am in front of the comp. If a good Pre app came out I'd use it all of the time.
- Nation Hahn
LANjackal -- and I am explaining (in response to the question at the head of this thread) why one heavy user of Friendfeed (I've posted nearly 15,000 comments here) is using Twitter more these days and Friendfeed less. I've also offered suggestions on how Friendfeed could trump Twitter in providing the features which are responsible for this trend.
- Sean McBride
+1 mobile phone (NOT iPhone)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I would be able to manage FF a lot better if I could have a dashboard view. I'm a piles person, not a drawers person. If I can't see it, it doesn't exist. Being able to pin topics or people and toggle realtime on those, and keep most of it in view in some fashion, would bring me full-tilt back into FF.
- abacab
One of my issues is that everyone I talk to is on Twitter and the only thing on FF are their tweets! I think it's also difficult for people to follow the feed without a good application like Tweetdeck for Twitter or notification system.
- Karen Swim
Karen, You can use lists and saved searches: much more powerful than TweetDeck ;) + the rather flexable email notifications
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
seriously Zee and I hope I don't appear stupid, I find Friendfeed hard to use
- Patphelan
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For June 2009 - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Craig Deakin, Mitchell Tsai, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) and 86 other people liked this
Highlighted are: 1) Layne Heiney http://friendfeed.com/lph 2) Alex Scoble http://friendfeed.com/itblogg... 3) Trish Robinson http://friendfeed.com/trishro... 4) Paul Buchheit http://friendfeed.com/paul 5) Shey Smith http://friendfeed.com/shey 6) Adam Helweh http://friendfeed.com/secrets... 7) Mary Ann Chick Whiteside http://friendfeed.com/mcwflint 8) Bwana McCall http://friendfeed.com/bwana 9) Rob Michael http://friendfeed.com/atmostr... 10) Rahsheen Porter http://friendfeed.com/rahsheen
- Louis Gray
Hey -- P is going to be so excited to see the list.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from BuddyFeed
Hey I know those people!
- Derrick
All great!
- Martha
I think there should be an international investigation into the fact Rahsheen wasn't included until now. :) I always assumed he had been, and that oversight has been rectified.
- Louis Gray
nice batch of folks... :)
- Nathan Chase
You know the month is nearly over when this list comes out. Well done. Keep em coming ... one day ....
- Amani
Sorry I am perpetually late, Amani. It's all I can do to meet the deadline. These aren't cheap two paragraph posts! :)
- Louis Gray
Great list. I'm only missing two here! :: adding ::
- Jorge Escobar
I thought I was subscribed to everyone because I see their posts all the time, bu that's because they're liked frequently.
- Heather
Woooo! I made the cut!
- Alex Scoble
Wow-thanks for the inclusion Louis! That caught me totally off-guard.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
And sad to say that Louis description about me is pretty much spot on. :)
- Alex Scoble
Oh how cool, thanks Louis!
- Trish R
Oh, except on MOST days I'm more active here than my brother. :)
- Alex Scoble
I love that you do this!!! You are awesome Louis. :) Sitting on this list is like being on a REAL SUL! I liked being on it myself (plug, plug) ;-)
- Sheryl
Love the "Abs of Rah" shoutout :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Excellent list. I see two new people (to me)
- Josh Haley
How were Bwana, Alex, Rah and Shey never on the list? Seriously, how did we all miss those?
- Rob Diana
Ubiquitously awesome FFers always get overlooked. It's the "I can't believe I wasn't already subscribed to _____" effect.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't follow me. I don't like it to be followed everywhere I go.
- Didier Lahely
Great list, and not just because I'm on it :)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
That is indeed a good list. If you are into FF, you already have these folks on your list.
- Bryan R. Adams
Great list - i was surprised these great folks weren't already on the previous lists! *scratches head*
- Susan Beebe
+100 Shey -- oh, and it IS great cuz YOU are ON the list - very cool and so well deserved :)
- Susan Beebe
Great list!
- Spencer
been following lph, bwana, and paul for a while for their tech insight, recently started following alex & rasheen for their interesting comments, thanks for giving us more interesting people to check out on this list :)
- Mike Chelen
Awesome list this month! Everyone there was already on my radar except for MaryAnn - going to check that out right now!
- Laura Norvig
I think I need to give Louis a break next month. Actually Rasheen and Shey were listed way back on the September list, I strayed off the pack that month and profiled 20 people. http://michaelfruchter.com/blog... Outstanding list this month otherwise, great job Louis!
- Mike Fruchter
What a surprise to come home to! Thanks!
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
from iPhone
Darn it Mike, how did I miss that one? Grr.
- Louis Gray
i was 1/10 on this list. and i listen to everything Louis says, so hello to the 9 of you :)
- Jim Halligan @jim
Another great list!
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the List. Its awesome
- Michael_techie
New on Posterous - Post to Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, FriendFeed, and others! - http://blog.posterous.com/
Andrew Nystrom @ LAT, Aaron Baer, Kol Tregaskes and 15 other people liked this
I am starting to fall in love with Posterous.
- Adam Helweh
Another ping.fm or hellotxt ?
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Think Tumblr + Ping
- Chris Baskind
For those of you who used it, what do you think of it?
- Adam Helweh
Posterous is cool but I've yet to find a use for it. I maintain a main blog, a tumblr blog, and Friendfeed does the rest.
- Keith - @tsudo
Keep hearing about Posterous but what are the +'s for businesses?
- Jeff Ramson
Jeff, if you leverage something like Twitpic to host and share you images then Posterous could be a potential alternative for not only images, but also video and audio as well. using my iPhone 3GS I can post almost any media to one place and share it the same way as if I posted something on Twit Pic or Audioboo.fm. I just started using it: http://adamhelweh.posterous.com/
- Adam Helweh
i like it a lot. it's more than i need actually, but the extras are great to have
- Cee Bee
Is it like SweetCron? Will it pull in all your streams as well or do you only post to it?
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
I'm loving Posterous... it's so easy to now post a blog on the move with pics, audio, video, links etc from Gmail. Hate having to be chained to the web template. Even posted my first ever podcastlet from iPhone voice recorder emailed to Posterous to my business blog this morning. Awesome and blogging is suddenly great fun again.
- Sally Church
Zu - you only post to it
- Cee Bee
Hm.... I guess it's wonderful for people who don't want to fuss with setting up their own site with blog software & all that :D Nice for them!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Zu, I kind of consider it the "in-between" blogging and Micro-blogging. Its the place where your more substantial life-stream content resides. Content that is very brief, but not supported by Twitter or Friend feed entirely. Your Posterous blog becomes your own personal space that you can share or keep somewhat secluded or even private. Twitter and FriendFeed are not the same. I...
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- Adam Helweh
The crippling effect of having to be everywhere at once http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index...
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"Ah, but getting the capital is only half the battle! In the last 3 years I raised over $7m in capital and learned that it is all about the execution and also about being agile when your assumptions turn out to be wrong from some perspective or another, as they invariably do. Investors know this, which is why they discount revenues by more than 50% on average and multiply costs by 100%. VC math!"
- Chicke (Tampa, FL)
Naked rowers prepare to cross Atlantic | Metro.co.uk - http://www.metro.co.uk/weird...
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Re: Product Costing & Feasibility - http://www.eventslisted.com/eventla...
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"It is terrific to discover an untapped market. This is second only to solving the problem that the industry is facing! I've mirrored what Simon has done on the ticketing side on the venue side with providing a way to plan travel to the venues with our roadescapes.com platform. I would love to see the ticketing piece for the event itself tied in with trip planning to the event venue. We are still US focused, but once we expand globally, you can bet that I'll be at EventsListed's door!"
- Chicke (Tampa, FL)
Re: Product Development time line - http://www.eventslisted.com/eventla...
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"Having lived through the build of a very complex software platform the last 3 years ($7m later....), I can share my observation that this was an amazing timeline and you have accomplished much with EventsListed during the build. The interesting thing about software, websites, platforms, portals, is that they are never done! Looking back at www.archive.org at the waybackmachine lets you see how far your favorite websites have come in the last 10-12 years. Nothing stays constant!"
- Chicke (Tampa, FL)
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Tricycle » The Green Lama - http://www.tricycle.com/blog...
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"Lama Surya Das just sent us this article about a fascinating, Buddhist-inspired 1940s American comic strip called “The Green Lama.” Crafted to compete with pulp-market characters like The Shadow, the titular protagonist of “The Green Lama” followed up 10 years of study in Tibet with a superheroic anti-crime campaign back in the United States—all part of a grand scheme to spread enlightenment."
- ~C4Chaos
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"Jun Po RoshiJun Po Roshi—dharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zen—came to visit us at EnlightenNext yesterday. After a delicious lunch and a delightful afternoon together, I was even more impressed with him than I had been on the phone a few weeks ago when we interviewed him for a “Beyond Limits” feature in our next issue. Jun Po is a remarkable human being, and his presence transmits a unique combination of strength and sweetness, fearless confidence and undefended vulnerability."
- ~C4Chaos
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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
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The New Firefox Has Arrived - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews...
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Mozilla has unleashed version 3.5 of Firefox, which is being described as a "major update." The new version is said to significantly boost performance while supporting a wide variety of web standards. "So much is happening on the Web right now, it's a great time for browsers. Firefox 3.5 brings together the most innovative Web technologies and delivers them in the most complete and powerful modern browser," says Mozilla CEO John Lilly. What's New Performance Firefox 3.5 includes the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which Mozilla says delivers "unprecedented" performance with today's web apps. It's over twice as fast as Firefox 3 and ten times faster than version 2. Open Video and Audio Video and audio content can be played from within the browser without the need for plug-ins. Firefox 3.5 comes with the first native integration directly into the browser. "Now everyone can easily watch open format Ogg Theora videos," says the company in the announcement. You can even right-click on...
@francismoran HAd that same conversation today.Most academics I know are not at all interested in new media for an example
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Linda Milazzo: Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-m...
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"This evening at a Washington DC fundraiser, in a statement that can best be described as regressive American exceptionalism, former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich said of himself: "I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous!""
- ~C4Chaos
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