FriendFeed News

Thanks so much everybody, come share your memorable FF finds and experiences here: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/th... - Casey Muller

hehehey happy birthday FF, wish u a long life ! :p - Heimana

Happy Birthday! - Ian Rathbone

Happy Birthday! It seems someone has created a room named social networking. How does one find the list of existing rooms, and ask to join? - Victor

This is one of the most exciting additions to the API we have done in my opinion. - Bret Taylor

"We've added new methods that allow you to quickly find who has shared a given URL on FriendFeed." - Casey Muller

This sounds really great for metrics! cool stuff guys - Susan Beebe

I can already smell the GreaseMonkey script ... - Yuval Atzmon

I used to use rss to see what the people I follow were posting. Until I started wondering, why some people didn't post any new pictures. Then I found out flickr was hiding these people from my feed. Friendfeed offers no solution to this. But now I use flickrfox, and I do get to see the pictures of all of my contacts. Can't friendfeed do what flickrfox is doing? (Of course, it is flickr that should fix this.) - Peter

I read this story. I wouldn't say it's "better" - but more of an enhancement. If I want to "browse flickr photos," then I'll go to Flickr, not friendfeed. - Dustin

"FriendFeed: FriendFeed is an easy-to-use starting point for organizing your Web life and sharing your thoughts about it with other people. Friendfeed can gather updates from dozens of social Web sites, making it simple to arrange all my Twitter posts, Gmail Chat status updates and other online tidbits in one profile. I also wanted to use FriendFeed to collect all my friends' activities. This was simplified by the site's option to search my Gmail address book for FriendFeed users. Surprisingly, about a dozen people I know — including my older brother — were already using it." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Feature request for next version of twhirl. - Jauder Ho

Hahaha. "Ajax design for -improved speed-" That's gotta be a joke, right? Twitter is still loading in Prototype AND jQuery, fully unminified. - Dustin

"The future, they said, is in Web services that do not require users to change their behavior by, say, adopting a new service or transferring all their friends’ contacts from one service to another. One example, said Mr. Kelton, is FriendFeed." - Ana

Great to see the duplicate detection! How does it handle the comments from the duplicate? Which of the two is displayed, the first one or the one with the most comments? - Stephen Mack

The entry with the most recent discussion activity is displayed first. - Bret Taylor

Heres to hoping Duplicate Detection will clean things up around here. - Asad Akbar

It is great to see this come out but how often do we go to the friendfeed site... does the new update affect the aggregators will this manage them I presume it will but nice 4 confirmation? - Ian Cleasby via twhirl

Yay Dan! - Ross Miller

welcome - blackysky

i like it - Z'HuNG Lee

i like this..coool - blackysky

This is great feature! cool! - K.D.

I don't think I like this feature (and it seems to have been implemented a little blindly). While rooms used to feature hand-picked news, now they seem a little overrun. I suppose it doesn't matter much for low-traffic rooms, but its effects on high traffic rooms are obvious. --I'm sure you're already thinking of ways to manage the flood, but perhaps in the future the feeds could just run in a sidebar of sorts - to keep it separated from the hand picking; which could also allow non-intrusive advertising ... - joneilortiz

What I would really like is taking any comments I get from the Blog in FriendFeed and posting those comments back to the blog. Steve Hodson has done this elegantly on his blog - is there a widget for that? - Sally Church

Trying out Feedalizer right now. - Rainer Paskiewicz via feedalizr

The iPhone version loaded into Mozilla's Prism with is what I use at the moment. - Remo

Congrats, Ben! - Stephen Mack

Congratulations! I suppose this makes you bi-coastal: West Coast and North Coast. - John Lam

I need to share my favorite Google reads more often. I should jsut set it so whenever I star an item, it also becomes shared. - Ben Parr

;) - Daniel Stemp

wow. fast company's slide show really sucks - Peter Deng

Very nice! One quick nit: Wordpress should be "WordPress" (on http://friendfeed.com/embed/li...) - Stephen Mack

I like the new look to it! Very cool. - Brian Bufalo

I'm totally going to have to add that to my blog. - Rainer Paskiewicz via twhirl

Can people tell from clicking on my name and then selecting the "[person] + Friends" link if a friend is part of my home feed or not? - Stephen Mack

The purpose of friend lists is grouping friends, and getting some groups of friends out of your home feed, not "fake following"; I think some people may use it for that, but it certainly wasn't an explicit design goal for us. - Bret Taylor

Don't get me wrong, I think "fake following" is retarded. I just don't think it's any more possible with the advent of beta than it was before. - David Young

the more i use the new design the more i love it. continue to be hyper-impressed with the FF team. - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I love the design. And yay, we are getting folders! - Peter

I am liking the new design. Way easier to use. - Brad Brooks

Nice job! regretfully the new design is not compatible with CRT displays. - Nir Ben Yona via twhirl

good work! but there isn't anobii support in share list ;) - chewzer

Thanks ... now I am convinced ! - Robert Locke

Good to have up one's sleeve next time a friend asks (or worse yet - does not know to ask) what FF is or does. - Alexei Tolkachev

I put up a FF & SocialThing roundup a little while ago. A lot of people saw them as the same thing when their approaches and uses are quite different. I explained it enough times that I thought I'd commit it to 'paper': http://glark.org/taming-the-so... - David T. Cole

"Liked" from my iPhone. - Andrew Meyer

Yes I subscribe button please. - Svartling

Okay that's the /i sorted how about /m? It was looking really good at first but then the style sheet came in and it changed to be a lot larger and too wide. Back to fftogo.com - John Cooper

Like Jeanette's comment on the blog. - Charlie Anzman

http://www.louisgray.com/live/... feedalizr - Bill Bittner

yes, i have a samsung instinct and ff on there won't even keep my login info w/o shutting off the web browser. - Faboo Mama

I hate the remote key on fftogo,why we can't log on with our own password for Christ's sake - Steve

Now we need an easy way to actually find rooms and everything would be super sweet. - Eiwe Lingefors

good short overview of the functionality of Rooms! - Jeroen De Miranda

Better ways to find rooms... +1 Eiwe - Mitchell Tsai