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7 Ways FriendFeed Could Better Engage the Flickr Community - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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My friend Robert Scoble has a blog post out talking about the reasons why FriendFeed is not seeing the sort of growth that Twitter and Facebook are. Personally I consider FriendFeed to be a vastly superior platform to both Facebook and Twitter, but it is interesting noting that it does not seem to be getting the traction of these other services. That said, I think that there is a huge opportunity for FriendFeed to better engage a very large existing community that is Flickr and to offer power user sort of tools for Flickr’s most active users. I’ve already written in the past about how I think the existing version of FriendFeed represents a superior way for people to browse Flickr than Flickr itself, but I think that FriendFeed could go a lot further and could definitely attract more (and super active) Flickr users if they improved things even more. So this list represents seven ways that I think FriendFeed could build a better way to engage with the Flickr Community. It should be...
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- Thomas Hawk
I gave up browsing Flickr when I found FriendFeed well over a year ago. I have many, many groups for browsing photography on FriendFeed. In particular my Flickr Photography group: http://friendfeed.com/flickr-...
- Kol Tregaskes
Agree about importing your Flickr contacts, been asking for that for eons. Similar request for importing non-FF Twitter friends would be cool too. I've manually added my favourite Flickr photographers, a chore, so an automated feature would be most welcome.
- Kol Tregaskes
Freind Feed is great at being Freind Feed and Flickr is great at being Flickr
- Kevin J Hatton
Quick tip if you do import your Flickr streams as a custom RSS into FF, use Ivan's Feed-Buster: http://feed-buster.appspot.com/ to get larger thumbnails.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kevin I disagree. Both are great services for what they are. But Flickr no longer innovates. They are a static service sort of on autopilot. There's a need for power users to grow beyond what Flickr currently offers and fortunately Flickr has a robust API where these users can flock to things like greasemonkey scripts and FriendFeed to improve their Flickr experience. People like Kol...
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- Thomas Hawk
Agree with point 6 too. That would be cool. Also the ability to separate Flickr user's favourites and their own photos would be most welcome. I like to have a group for each separately.
- Kol Tregaskes
I actually wish FF would not import Flickr photos in batches. They wouldn't do that with any other kind of imported media, and I think it makes it difficult to have any sort of engaging discussion around photos on FriendFeed.
- Michael Hocter
how would you suggest they import flickr photos instead Michael?
- Thomas Hawk
Point 7 sounds interesting. The saved searches are OK but the Best of Day/Week/Month feature would be great for this if it worked on searches.
- Kol Tregaskes
One at a time, just like they do any other feed item. I understand why this would be a pain for Flickr favorites and people who post in huge batches at a time, but most of us only post a few photos at a time.
- Michael Hocter
I like being able to see the Flickr favorites of other FFers since I find new and interesting Flickr users that way, much more than I do through Flickr itself. I don't mind having them come in batches. A particularly interesting photograph can always be given its own post.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Michael, I'm OK with that, what annoys me though is when it imports a batch, you go fave more then it reimports them and removes the old import with all the comments and likes. I'd like to fave a batch of pics, force a redresh, then fave some more then force another refresh and have both these come in as separate batches.
- Kol Tregaskes
I guess I think showing photos one at a time would be super noisy. For someone like me who imports about 300 photos into Flickr a week this would mean 300 separate entries on FriendFeed. I think that would detract from the overall FF user interface and experience. I think they are doing the batch posting fine now, but it's just that they are doing it backwards and opposite of how flickr shows photos on Flickr.
- Thomas Hawk
Michael, use an RSS feed of your stream with he Feed-Buster service, that's exactly what you're after.
- Kol Tregaskes
Having Flickr photos come one at a time would be really annoying, at least for me. It would crowd out everything else in my feeds.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Thomas, like my stream from vi.sualizue.us? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Another feature I'd like: In search, I wish I could separate Flickr uploads from Flickr favorites. I prefer to talk to the people who actually take and upload the photos, but when you search, the majority of photos you see are from Flickr favorites.
- Michael Hocter
Kol, your vi.sualizue.us stream rocks!
- Thomas Hawk
Michael, agree. I've never been able to separate the two.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, thanks Thomas. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael I agree with that idea as well. I think maybe the two can be one by default, but give users an option to split them if they want. I'd much rather be able to view the two independently.
- Thomas Hawk
As the open version of Facebook, Ff needs to develop these relationships and fast. Facebook wants you to use their picture storage, their blog engines, their music addons, keeping you inside the Facebook walls. Ff just as Thomas says, NEEDS to show that they can build something better by letting everyone decide which stand alone services serve their needs best, and all these can be...
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- Matthew DeVries
@Michael - yes! I prefer to know which are faves and which are posts.
- JA Castillo
There are many ways FF could be improved to help us photo-happy people (and most features would benefit the community in general), such as the ability to search for entries with pictures *only* (on it's way I believe), search by date/time, be able to search by selective imported feeds, e.g. I cannot search for my vi.sualize.us images only, etc.
- Kol Tregaskes
FF could even go further and let you sign into flickr and then you can like and comment and it flows back to flickr
- Phill Price
hear hear Phill
- Thomas Power
It would be pretty slick if I could hover over a photo on FF and fave it on flickr. I think that would take more than basic API stuff though.
- Thomas Hawk
@Phill - that would be too much!! I would never leave FF! :)
- JA Castillo
For me, FriendFeed needs to improve for new users. For instances the suggested users list is not the way to go and the lack of introduction to the service's features upon registration is virtually non-existent. When a new user has completed registration it needs a quick and simple Flash anim to demonstrate FF's basic features (an adapted version of one of Ross' videos would be cool),...
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- Kol Tregaskes
Faving a Flickr photo on FF would be super!!
- Kol Tregaskes
JA, exactly. ;-) But that lies the problem, Flickr perhaps wouldn't want that?
- Kol Tregaskes
The suggested users list on FF definitely needs to incorporate activity and not just popularity. That's a whole other subject though.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, yep. Sorry going off in all directions. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I suspect Flickr could be resistant to some of these ideas. After all, attention on the internet is a zero sum game and making FF that much better for hardcore flickr users could siphon off traffic from them. Still, I bet a bunch of this could be done through the API as it stands now.
- Thomas Hawk
I prefer to see at least a medium-sized version of a photo before I fave it, so I doubt I would fave through FF if such an option existed. Agreed with most of Thomas's seven suggestions.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
John, yep, bigger versions of the pics are needed, would that watch in the current batches?
- Kol Tregaskes
bigger versions would indeed rock. It would be nice to have a user setting though to either see small thumbnail photos are larger photos. This way the people who are not as interested in the photos as some of us could still choose to see them small. In fact small should probably be the default with a user option to view them larger instead.
- Thomas Hawk
I kind of like the thumbnail batches, and being able to choose which to click through. My comment was specifically about faves – it's hard to pick favorites from just thumbnails.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Another thing I'd like to see changed (or at least be toggleable) is the feature what hides entries under 'more form <service>' on lists. I have lots of photo-related groups in one friends list and having them hidden like this is annoying. Also the hiding of the Flickr photos in the batches is annoying too. Personally I'd like this expanded all the time but a toggle would be nice. I appreciate this might be set-up as it is because of performance.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thomas, agree.
- Kol Tregaskes
More user options for controlling the display of Flickr photos would be helpful.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I'm kind of disappointed in Friendfeed. Too much focus on competing with Twitter, and not enough on what was originally the core idea of aggregating services. And sadly they've de-emphasized service integration so much that I wonder if they'll even keep doing it, let alone improve the integration. And Flickr, for that matter, sucks too - Thomas hit the nail on the head above, Flickr has...
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- Eric P
Eric, I think you're right about Flickr. Flickr's mostly been laying people off these days. They laid off designer George Oates, Engineer Rev Dan Catt, and lots of the other original talent there has left, Cal Henderson, Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Kakul Srivastava recently left the helm of the site as well to work on other things at Yahoo. The last innovative thing that they...
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- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, thanks for taking the time to write this up
- Bret Taylor
Bret, you're welcome. I think you guys have the best opportunity to drive a lot more Flickr users over here.
- Thomas Hawk
Love the new logo, lol
- Zachary TG
Hey TH, as always, great ideas from you about improving FriendFeed. I've always felt it's a great adjunct to Flickr. Personally, my social community isn't here (can't get them to join), so FF isn't as useful for me as I'd like it to be (or as it is for people like you and Scoble, etc). Friendbinder is what I've been using to navigate my Flickr contacts (it auto-pulls them all in, and...
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- Criz
Hey Criz, thanks. I'd obviously love to see more innovation via flickr come through FF and especially directly at flickr. Good to know that you guys are working on more than just new buttons. In terms of hiring, the only hire that I'm aware of Flickr announcing in the last year or so (unless I missed it somewhere) was zycster in the "abuse" "customer care" "censorship" bureau vs. the...
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- Thomas Hawk
I still think Google Reader is the most convenient way of browsing Flickr photostreams. I'm testing Feedly for this at the moment and it's doing a quite good job as well.
- Rutger Blom
Thomas, film was quite a big new feature on Flickr too.
- Rutger Blom
Rutger, I suppose, adding video was a feature, unfortunately though I think that it was a feature at odds with the flickr community that many in the community saw as more of a negative than a positive. There was a pretty strong and vocal group opposing adding video on Flickr. I've only ever used video on Flickr once (ironically yesterday). Here again, videos are crippled to 90 seconds...
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- Thomas Hawk
I think FF on the other hand has offered us already fairly substantive improvements to the Flickr experience. Being able to see *all* of your flickr contact's photos vs. only the most recent 1 or 5 is huge. So is letting us see our contacts faves. Ideally though we'd get continued innovation from both Flickr AND outside developers like FF building on the Flickr API to best improve the...
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- Thomas Hawk
Yes, but the seeing *all* of your flickr contact's photos can be accomplished in any RSS feed reader really. Has little to do with FriendFeed.
- Rutger Blom
Thomas, I am zyrcster, and I am not on abuse :) And I think you'll enjoy what's coming down the pike. I hope so, anyway.
- Criz
Ah, ok, zyrcster. Hopefully it's something good. I thought you were part of the moderation/customer service / abuse/ censorship dept based on the thread in flickr help. I should re-read that thread. Hard to know who's who on the flickr staff when flickr codes the public "about flickr" staff page to purposely hide staff members from me personally. I hope that coding project didn't take much time away from all that innovation going on over there.
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
Rutger, Flickr RSS feeds only contain public, "safe" photos... definitely not all of my contacts' photos
- Michael Hocter
Hmm, never knew that, there should be 2 versions of the feed then so we can choose.
- Kol Tregaskes
In fact, I can't even get a decent RSS feed of my own photos out of Flickr because many of them are not "safe"
- Michael Hocter
Or is there an issue from Flickr's point of perspective having such content go outside it's site?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I think it's because they can't authenticate who you are or what your preferences are through RSS
- Michael Hocter
I see. They could have a password protection/authenticated feed but FF doesn't support such feeds.
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL, Mrsth, that's over censoring stuff!
- Kol Tregaskes
that is actually a problem on Flickr's end. They've been censoring your RSS feed now for years. They won't allow any content deemed "adult" to be sent out of Flickr via RSS. It's incredibly stupid in my opinion. I'd love to be able to subscribe to Merkely's nudes (which very much are fine art) for instance and even though I've checked on Flickr that I'm an adult and want adult content...
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- Thomas Hawk
haha, actually Kol that was me. I was accidentally logged in as my wife though, just got home and was using the home computer.
- Thomas Hawk
What happened there? Posting from your wife's acount? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ah, hehe!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Now the thread reads oddly. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I don't know about you, but I really wish vi.sualize.us would implement FF's SUP or FF spider those streams more often. I end up having to manually get FF to pull them in after I've favorited a bunch or it takes *forever* for them to finally be pulled into the FF stream.
- Mark Philpot
I've not really checked my vi.sualize.us groups, is there a delay in importing?
- Kol Tregaskes
you certainly can easily add a photo as a favourite through the api - all you need is the photo id and the user to have given ff a token by signing in... http://www.flickr.com/service...
- Phill Price
Ah, I did have an issue with my watchlist from vi.sualize.us. I notified them and they checked it and it started working. Are you having problems, Mark?
- Kol Tregaskes
How recent was this? I've just been in the habit of manually refreshing my vi.sualize.us feed. Next time I'll try letting FF get it on it's own and see how long it takes.
- Mark Philpot
Mark, a few weeks ago. I'd buzz them on their site and let them know you are having problems too. Works fine for me atm but they said they are keeping an eye on it.
- Kol Tregaskes
BTW, people on this thread might be interested in this group for vi.sualize.us most popular entries feed: http://friendfeed.com/visuali.... It seems to import dups a lot, which is a problem but it's not a huge issue.
- Kol Tregaskes
So I can now check vi.sualize.us on FF too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thomas, could probably do something similar for your Zooomr too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I just added six to my vi.sualize.us favorites... I'll see how long it takes for them to get imported. -- And a note to any FF developers on this feed -- Please implement a "Comment" link at the bottom of the comments. Especially for long comment streams, it's a pain to have to scroll up to the top to add a new comment.
- Mark Philpot
Mark, OK, any issue go to the vi.sualize.us, they'll help you out. It's their feed after all. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
If you authenticate with the Flickr API you can get at the "unsafe" photos, FYI. But that would require a deeper level of integration that Friendfeed offers today.
- Eric P
Michael, I think that's quite logical and good actually. All hell would break loose if Flickr allowed access to porn via its feeds. The solution is authenticated RSS feeds in case things would stop working all together here at FriendFeed if you are not creating an imaginary friend for every Flickr contact that is.
- Rutger Blom
+1 faving a Flickr photo on FriendFeed
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
FF is not seeing the growth other services are seeing because it is not designed for the casual, non-technical user the way flickR, Twitter, and Facebook are. An average person can "walk up" to any of those three services and get them almost immediately. By "get them" I don't mean that they understand deeply/optimally how or why to use them but that they can readily get their heads...
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- Anthony Citrano
I think even for a lot of above average users FriendFeed is too obscure.
- Rutger Blom
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Sorry, another animated gif, but this is too funny… - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Tony, Besim Dönmez, tomit and 229 other people liked this
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- Harun R. Demirbaş
i genuinely don't like animated gifs guys...but come on, this is hilarious..
- Zee.
newb
- Simon Wicks
i just love the way he claps before hand with such enthusiasm...then bang!
- Zee.
GEE! I remember that.
- Valley
lmfao.... OUCH!! what a dickhead!
- Rob Sellen :o)
Is that Joey from Friends on the left?
- Simon Wicks
Lol thanks Meric...
- Zee.
like and then hide... so I don't keep watching it. :)
- mikepk
did he win?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Just what _the hell_ was he hoping to do, and did he swallow anything .. like his tongue, or some teeth, perhaps? So many questions...
- Wayne Smallman
What is the white object comes out from his head?
- Alp
Funny, but it's a good thing FF is real-time now, so this GIF will soon disappear from view.
- Grey Drane
Classic clip from 'So You Think You Can Dance'. Good times.
- Quinton
unless people keep post on it ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
you can just hide it of course Grey
- Zee.
ouch
- Nathan Chase
OUCH!!!
- YoYo_P
If i remember correctly, the dude got back up and continued dancing.
- Valley
can't stop watching.
- Jim in Real Time
Make it go away !!!
- Dave Ploch
hide guys hide!
- Zee.
ups..
- Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)
Painful.. for him and for us to watch - especially in a continuous loop. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
funny tho
- Rob Sellen :o)
oh my word that hurts
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Offff...
- Burak Budak
I'm not sure funny is the word.....
- elroy
definition of: "face-plant"
- .LAG liked that
its not funny :( pitty
- ♪♫ halilinho ♪♫
His altimeter is on the fritz.
- KyleHase
This could be a good analogy for the new FF look. based on all the howling that has been going on. uh AKA Face Feed :D
- Tony C (Unrated)
from fftogo
This guy is somewhere trying to live this down. It ain't happening soon.
- Valley
omg that's horrific
- stanleyyork
OUCH ... what was that bounced off the floor ..
- johnpiercy
its on his head... a hat?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Least he got straight back up and carried on! Props to him.
- Simon Wicks
What happened to him?
- Yalçın Erdemir
Oops
- Vicey
well done
- Opensource Obscure
OUCH.
- Ron Bailey
My guess is that he had never actually tried to do that flip before. He was just so full of himself he figured he could. Looks easy, right?
- Tad
ROFL I mean I'm really ROFLing right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
After watching the full video, I'm not sure he had ever tried to dance before. His facial expressions look totally pained.
- Tad
Dude looks like Potsie.
- B. Hatin
I'm going to have to hide this as it is too painful a reminder of my own pathetic attempts at dancing...
- Andrew Leyden
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
- Randy
OUCH!
- AJ Batac
omg
- Kate
What is that on his head? Was he wearing a yamukkah?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
LOL look at the judges faces!!!!
- Anthony Farrior
lol
- Filip Visnjic
ouch!! I can't stop watching this, lol!
- Gabe Diaz
Thanks, Meric. Salah is now my favorite word for today.
- Yolanda
Classic
- Bwana ☠
That was epic.
- Andru Edwards
wow! WE HAVE A WINNAH!
- vijay
That was the winner from "So You Think You Can SLAM Dance?" ;)
- Jericho
OUCH! The So You Think You Can Dance auditions are always good for at least a couple of these. :) I need to find out when that's starting up again...or I could just calculate based on how many more weeks of American Idol there are, I guess.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
omg. that's horrible. ouch.
- ♥patricia♥
lmao!!! knew that would pop up sometime!!!
- Rob Sellen :o)
gahh. how did that not break his neck? >.< gads
- Kamilah Gill
bet there is a dent on that floor....
- Rob Sellen :o)
WTF was he thinking about...gah
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
your ffeed is awesome...I guess pic would fit this! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I can't look away... but I keep cringing every time the face meets the floor.
- Joshua Schnell
"meet the floor" ??? wtf? his face gatecrashed the floor lol ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
yeeeeeha... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
:) Yeah, i think so Cagatay...there's a video link somewhere in the comments. He's safe and sound
- Zee.
OMG
- Jigar Mehta
ouch
- Matt Bebich
Already saw that thing... but still find it hilarious!
- François Lamontagne
This one kills me every time I see it http://jcunwired.enjoysthin.gs/33342
- jcunwired
I bet he couldn't do it again.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Makes it look like he never practiced at all! At least he'll get his 15 minutes of fame, though I'm imagining he didn't want that kind.
- Michael Turner
Trying to figure out how to get animated gifs in my feed so I can get rid of all those pesky followers.
- Hayes Haugen
Nothing better then an animated faceplant
- Will Higgins™
OW!
- imabonehead
we wondered when you would turn up and tell us what it was like "imabonehead" :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Really can't stop watching!
- Ninh Nguyen
...it still hurts to watch! poor guy.
- .LAG liked that
omg lmao should we laugh at this..............HELL YEAH LMFAO
- eric
Oooosshhh
- Moses Kpetigo
he fucked up
- Amir
It was not funny the first five times I saw it. Then I started to giggle. Now I can't stop watching it.
- Niklas Morberg
Was that a Yarmulkah or Keffiyah that fell off?
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
OUCH!!! How unfortunate!
- David Cook - 2010!!!
can't stop watching it.. LMAO..
- Can Koklu
ouch ! :-/ do you know what happened after ? did he break his face? well... that would have been an appropriate move for "break" dance =P lol
- AyDi şeker
I hate watching these videos because I keep wondering what happened after, what was the damage!!.. Damn it there is no point in watching if you dont know the result.
- denizoktar
Hahaha. Oh my God.
- Nation Hahn
Oohh dear
- Moses Kpetigo
Just seeing this one makes me feel like I should spit teeth out :-o
- Seth Greenblatt
Just ran across the full video today. Looks like he walked away just fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ken Sheppardson
Hot DAwg .... We Have a Wiener
- johnpiercy
lol, this wont die.
- Zee.
d a m n
- Derrick
White People Cant Dance
- johnpiercy
BAM!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Boy, that looks painful.
- LaShea Miller
not the best to start off the morning, actually it is if behind the display :-D
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
that hurt me si i know he was a hurting
- Monique
Is that a yarmulke that flew off?
- Mattb4rd
Ok, finally laying down a comment on this on. To bookmark.
- Micah Wittman
Stealing this as we speak!!!
- Amani
The Hotties of FriendFeed
Kyle Weller, (jeff)isageek, Nia and 31 other people liked this
Uh oh, you're asking for it aren't you!
- @CrystalinaB
EEK!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Josh, I like you better in red
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I guess that ends my carreer of playing with myself....BARF
- Morgan Haley
Now I know why my mom tells me never to get drunk at strange bars...
- Mike Nayyar
Mark, this was OUR joke. C'mon now...
- Josh Haley
I love it!
- Brandy Lea
They're back? OH HAI, PEACHES AND KANDI.
- Anna Haro
Anna remembers!
- Josh Haley
I'll have the one without an Adams Apple
- johnpiercy
Josh, I could NEVER forget those two lovely dames. :P
- Anna Haro
:D
- Josh Haley
Now that's what I'm talking about! :p
- Helen Sventitsky
oh no! not again!
- Alessandro
Aren't those the hotel heiresses? Oh, wait, sorry, only one regularly gets called a t...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
OHGODNOWTFKILLME
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Woah, those are the hottest women I have ever seen
- Shevonne
Reminds me of Crocodile Dundee. Remember that scene? No, not when he says "Dats Nawt a Knife"
- paisano
Where's Ackbar when I need him? It's a trap!
- Mike Nayyar
My Initial Thoughts on the Canon 5D Mark II After 24 Hours - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
Kenneth Chu, Chris Knight, Phill Price and 17 other people liked this
I'm still getting up to pace with my Canon D60 that I was given by a valuable friend! Hoping to get my hands on a Canon G10 this year.
- Ed Richardson
So very jealous!
- Justin Korn
Ed: Stop the presses! You'll get much better results continuing to use the D60 over the G10.
- Kenny Louie
FriendFeed/WordPress question: I get my best response when my FF shares have pictures, nice titles, and a comment or two from me to kick off discussion. These targeted shares destroy bland auto-shares from my RSS feeds. Do the FF/WP integration plugins allow you to juice up your shares like this?
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Look at the difference in interaction there: I'm getting a near 0% hit rate on the RSS and closer to 100% on native FF shares!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
So here's what I want to see in a WP/FF integration plugin: Let me massage the initial shares in order to make them most interesting to FF users. After that, the WP plugin should come behind me and automatically reshare the FF/WP comments back and forth like they already do.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
The key point is that automated shares are terrible at generating interest but manual shares don't sync future comments between FF and the blog. Can this be done?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I thought you could edit the link under Manage Posts in the FriendFeed Comments section, but it provides only a drop-down. That could have been a temporary fix.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm not on WP just yet, Rahsheen. I'm just thinking out loud here. We had some good discussion at #BCMem this weekend about the comment-generating power of DISQUS vs. FriendFeed and some other tools. Obviously you can run them all at once but it's good to figure out how to start a good conversation every time you step up to the plate.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Note to the curious: here are the FF/WP plugins http://www.google.com/search... See them in action on ReadWriteWeb, http://zee.me and others
- Daniel J. Pritchett
noticed the same thing. Would be nice to see better integration.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
I thought RWW was using a custom MT plugin?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Probably so, Rahsheen. I haven't noticed the one at RWW being cooler than the ones elsewhere, maybe they just wrote it a while ago and haven't kept up with the new hotness?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
The FriendFeed Comments plugin has pretty much been static since it came out. RWW had some custom thing done a while back, or something. I have thought about hacking the FFComments plugin myself, but I keep expecting Disqus or ID to step up to the plate. I'm not sure why Disqus is dragging their feet on this.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Amen! I just tweeted @danielha at DISQUS to show him the interest in this thread. Maybe we can move this up his priority list for feature development.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
FriendFeed's import system is horrific, I can't seriously get into using FF because no pictures or videos show up from my feeds.
- Bjorn Stromberg
@Bjorn: Definitely a good opportunity here for FF to expand the options for plain RSS importing. I'd like to see the 1st picture come through as well as the ability for the profile owner to edit the post after the fact. This is why most of my good stuff is a native FF post: I can pick and choose exactly what comes in and make sure it's got the right mix of interesting content to start a discussion. An RSS headline with no pic isn't as powerful.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Daniel I have seen an image come through once on a blogspot post, but Tumblr posts don't come through and that should be the absolute simplest platform to identify the image or video embed. A website full of text is mostly meaningless to me, put a photo in there and now we've got something.
- Bjorn Stromberg
Yeah, I've been pretty slack on updates to the plugin for the last few months. My wife's been pregnant & we were buying a house for the first time. Baby is now born and house moved into so I'm hoping to get some updates done.
- Glenn Slaven
Are you wanting the ability to include images from the post, because I think that could be done fairly simply?
- Glenn Slaven
Maybe it could pick up the excerpt & put that in as the first comment
- Glenn Slaven
Glenn, I'd like to see the images in the post brought straight over to FriendFeed through my RSS stream. I read that FF is supposed to support MediaRSS but I haven't managed to work it out yet. The only real feature request I can think of for you is to pull in comments from all items in my FF stream that link to the post rather than just the direct RSS item.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Although I am not on WP yet, this thread continue to motivate me. I noticed that about RSS streams not having pictures and that it is hard to differentiate them. The long way seems to post another pic on the FF entry with a small comment and see if that draws interest. An automatic "pull" would be nice.
- Amani
CrashPlan – Automatic Offsite Backup » Features - Overview - http://www.crashplan.com/feature...
Morton Fox, borghrose, siddman and 3 other people liked this
reshare from Joe Beda -No buttons to push or CDs to burn. Simply install CrashPlan and it quietly runs in the background protecting your files to YOUR own destinations. there are no fees or extra charges.
- SnakeDoc
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This looks really cool. Also I don't think I've ever seen a *.vtl extension on a webpage before...
- Mitch
WebKut - AIR webpage capture tool - http://toki-woki.net/p/WebKut/
Voyagerfan5761, Outsanity, Steve Cornelius and 5 other people liked this
I'm guessing this is an alternative to Paparazzi.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
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I used to use spurl cause it kept copies of sites. Then it stopped doing that, but diigo offers it. It does not allow much snipping though. For keeping copies of snippets for pure information there is notefish.com (and quite a few desktop apps from evernote to local website archive - mentioning those 2 cause I use them both)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I use this mostly for keeping archival images of interesting stuff. It's great for showing clients that their ad/product/etc was mentioned somewhere.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
@Carlos - that is a great way to use this tool, I hadnt thought of that!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle, glad to help. Paparazzi (and Webkut) are great tools for PR firms assembling client coverage reports.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Shrink O'Matic - AIR batch image resizer - http://toki-woki.net/p...
Outsanity, Jauder Ho, Steve Cornelius and 2 other people liked this
Introducing: The Facebook Phone - http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008...
Jordi Soler, Jon Price, Pico Seno and 9 other people liked this
Oh wow. I thought this was a joke.
- Admiral Anika
Interesting but I'll stick with my iPhone
- Bob Gannon
lawl
- mjc
lol, i'll stick w the g1 until the g2
- Kyle Weller
Twootball - Where Twitter Meets The NFL Football - http://www.twootball.com/
Steve Cornelius, Anthony Farrior, Terence and 3 other people liked this
I wish they have something liked this for Soccer.
- Jonathan Kong
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Wow, General Motor's market cap is now below what it was in 1929, under $4 billion now. GM is down 45% in the last month. Down 15 to 20% this a.m. which is one of the big reasons why there is pressure on the Dow this a.m.
Nick, Tommy Williams, Steve Cornelius and FFing Enigma (aka Tina) liked this
If one presumes that since they are a Top 10 (I believe) employer in the US and if you include indirect employment Top Employer one MAY presume that the Gov won't let them go bankrupt and therefore their stock could be a great buy right now assuming that they don't do something equally radical but more likely such as debt for equity.
- Roger Kondrat
Walt Mossberg is Influential?: Steven Baker of BusinessWeek has the inside scoop on on his blog a.. http://www.mediadeluge.com/post...
Alex Hammer, Steve Cornelius, Atul Arora and 3 other people liked this
Wow, Walt added $500 million when he gave companies positive reviews and took away $200 million when giving a negative review.
- Robert Scoble
With great power, comes great responsibility :)
- Bwana ☠
@bwana is that peter parker's uncle or yoda?
- Christian Anderson
Firefox down - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Alex Williams, Brandon, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 20 other people liked this
Indeed! Firefox 3 Success Failure! http://tinyurl.com/4do6q3
- Stephen Pierzchala
Direct download links http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
Not surprising though - and even better publicity...
- Wictor Wilén
So thats what the problem is! I rebooted my computer twice
- Dave Peck
Down With FireFox ! Viva internet Explorer
- Farzad
Failfox? Foxwhale?
- Iain Baker
that reminds me something, uhm twitter?
- Eren Emre Kanal
Firefail!
- Bwana ☠
where is getfirefoxtomorrow.com when you need it?
- Wade Dorrell
I think the last thing they posted was a "Mission Accomplished" banner and a quote from Mozila about large number of downloads -- "Bring it on," I believe they said...
- Karim
FireFailFox?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Well, getfirefox is responding now, at least. Still showing FF2, though. C'mon guys.
- felix
Now they are redirecting www.getfirefox.com to the FF2.0 download. Wtf? I already have FF2.0.
- Jon Erickson
They need Blaine Cook to show them how to scale!
- Pat Hawks
10am Pacific, guys! Be patient.
- Ward Seward
What time do you think it is, Ward?!?
- Pat Hawks
260,000 downloads and counting http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
Looks as if everything just clicked into place - page loading and reloading fine here.
- Ben
Pat, oh yeah.... good point. I guess I can't tell time. I guess I'll join in on the bitching now.
- Ward Seward
@Ward - lol. Really wish I could "like" that comment :-P
- Pat Hawks
Kim: You just won a lol and a subscription. Where are you going now? Disneyland?
- Russellreno
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
- Pat Hawks
So is it worth it?
- Steve Cornelius
Yes, but I've been using it for months.
- Robert Scoble
Pat, just keep trying... it will work. I just completed downloading it.
- Ward Seward
downloading now :)
- David Smith
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"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" -- looks suspiciously like that Amazon.com outage a few days ago...
- Karim
Installation Success. I just got mine from the mozilla site. But one big drawback, wow a bunch of incompatible add-ons, bummer
- Jon Erickson
I was able to get the browser download but having problems accessing the addons page. :/
- Arlan Koizumi
The addon page is passing incorrect HTTP headers. Some firewalls (ours for example) blocks that sort of thing.
- Joel Gray
According to moz, the addon site is down, but addon updates server is still running apparently... I'm following them live on mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/air_moz...
- Bwana ☠
I just downloaded FF3... proper like also, so I feel proud I have done my bit for the record cause.
- Travis Koger
Finally downloaded. 12,000 downloads per minute = 200 downloads per second * 7 MB = 1.4 GB = 11 Gbit = probably smoking somebody's OC-192. Ok, so I officially cut them a little slack now. ;-)
- Karim
I got it on the work computer. So much faster and slicker so far. Though I had to reinstall of my add-ons. None of them would auto-update. Also causes Windows Live Mail to go nuts (probably MS's fault), but clicking Logout there crashes FireFox. There is no way that's MS's fault.
- xero
got in at the right time! really happy with the speed of FF3. looks great as well, still testing all the new features.
- michael sean wright
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