If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last. This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded. Here’s what Buchheit just told me, in full:
- Jim Connolly
from Bookmarklet
Mark: Not sure how it would change things for Paul and the guys - they just sold out to Facebook and have more money than they will ever need. (and they deserve every fricking penny BTW!!!)
- Jim Connolly
A sign of how quiet things are now on Friendfeed? I've had 5 (FIVE) click-throughs from friendfeed to my blog after posting this here. 3 months ago it would have been massively more. Really sad watching it die slowly like this.
- Jim Connolly
Alan: Not sure - but when a post has twice as many 'likes' as clicks it means something. That same post's been read over 400 times so far - so there's some interest out there.
- Jim Connolly
Mark: not true. Advertising for a million users wouldn't bring in that much on a forum-based site. Average CPM is about $3 per 1,000 page views. That wouldn't make anyone rich. The way Paul will become really rich is to help make Facebook a public company (they are well on their way). That means pouring all his skills into making Facebook a better service for its 300 million users (and growing).
- Robert Scoble
Alan: And there's no longer a debate - the co-founder confirmed no new development.
- Jim Connolly
It's also worth pointing out how much respect I now have for Paul, for being good enough to let us know the future plans - well, lack of future plans. That took balls and he deserves some credit.
- Jim Connolly
Feedback please: Do I delete my account now the platform's no longer being developed?
- Jim Connolly
So Jim, this is why you were pestering him so much in the thread? So that you could get a catchy headline for your blog? He said - "Jim, there may be a few new things, but as I said, the team is mainly working on fb platform and openness, so it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff (except maybe one that I've been thinking about for a while...). I don't see that as a...
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- Kenton
When platforms cease being invested in, as you know, they slowly grind to a halt. Is it better to invest the time I spend here on a platform that's growing - rather than shrinking?
- Jim Connolly
Kenton: I don't need a catchy headline for a blog, thats only updated a couple of times a week and run as a pastime. The feedback you gave about deleting accounts screwing up comments makes sense. When the co-founder says that "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff" I believe him.
- Jim Connolly
I guess it depends on why you're investing your time. If it is in the community, then I don't see why you can't still contribute. If you're using it for increasing your personal brand, business, blog traffic, etc then you are probably right to invest your time on sites that see more traffic and growth.
- Kenton
Kenton is right, you're title is wrong, fact. He did not say NO new features.
- Keith Bennett
There's really nothing cool about all this cryptic communication Paul is giving us. All it's doing is riling us up and causing us to be unnecessarily speculative. We made this site be worth 50m, so we therefore don't deserve to be strung along like this.
- Brad Williamson
Keith: Did you interpret "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff" as meaning there WILL be more big new features?
- Jim Connolly
"Thank you" - Seems the route is to keep the account alive, rather then mess up content for other users by deleting it. Appreciate the heads-up.
- Jim Connolly
Gotta go. Just subscribed to everyone who's commented here - so you can DM me. Really appreciate the feedback.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: No I didn't, but I also didn't post an article saying there will be NONE! Fact is, we don't know what they are up to, what they plan to do and that's what causes the speculation. You're adding fuel to the fire and I think you should change the title, that's all. Personally, I'm in the wait and see what happens camp. I'm happy with the service as is and I'm sure what emerges from the FB integration will be interesting, but until I know what that is, I'm happy to continue with what I have.
- Keith Bennett
ICQ still exists...Winamp still exists...AOL still exists (but why?)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Another FriendFeed self prophecy post. Cast doubt about its future so users begin leaving, then it will HAVE to close because of lack of users! You should be doing the opposite and encouraging folks to join...its users that keep a service afloat..
- technogran
"In today’s computing world, most online services/apps are free. Put simply, users get what they want, while companies monetize the popularity. Simple relationship. But now, there appears to be a tribe of people bearing arms, bludgeoning anyone who dares to speak out about lousy service quality, bad uptime, bad customer support etc all under the blanket “Its free, what you got to complain about”. What happens if Google stops showing search results for companies and products they don’t like. It is a free service, no one can complain, but you bet that those companies are going to die pretty soon. Or what happens if Gmail loses all your incoming emails and you learn about it a couple of months later. No big deal if you are Grandma. Pretty big deal if you run a small business using Google Domains. (Which is free btw) Or what happens if Google Docs swallows many of your documents ? Maybe you will say, “Its a free service. Stop complaining”"
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
Nothing is "free" every user in some sense is paying maybe just with attention or mindwidth but still payment is rendered.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm sorry, you can't get support and have apps be free, I'm not buying it. The old adage still holds true, you get what you pay for. When companies monetize via indirect means, the user's best interests are no longer necessarily aligned with the companies.
- mikepk
You can complain all you want. However, I would expect to get the support I pay for.
- caj needs a haircut
I pay for gmail and the like with my attention and occasional ad clicks and therefore have a reasonable expectation of service. Now if someone writes a little app or script for themselves and then shares it for free then I don't think you can expect support. Scale, intent, and, to a lesser degree, monetization are the determining factors here.
- David Knight
David, with conversion ratios of user attention vs ad clicks, just what do you think your attention is worth (in monetary terms) to Google? If you work the equation out, I'd be surprised if you were worth more than a few cents a month. How much of that goes to maintaining the service? Do you know how expensive support is? Major issues that affect millions of people, sure (the aggregate benefit justifies the cost). Your particular issue/beef is irrelevant.
- mikepk
Second unbreakable rule -- you can pay in more ways than supplying money.
- Brian Sullivan
gmail has a support staff that will help with individual issues
- David Knight
I'm seeing an academic paper/article in this - something with a title that includes Homoerotic Religious Paintings and The Village People in Popular Culture
- Katy S
"The circadian clock coordinates physiological and behavioral processes on a 24-hour rhythm, allowing animals to anticipate changes in their environment and prepare accordingly. Scientists already know that some genes are controlled by the clock and are turned on only one time during each 24-hour cycle. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that some genes are switched on once every 12 or 8 hours, indicating that shorter cycles of the circadian rhythm are also biologically encoded.Using a novel time-sampling approach in which the investigators looked at gene activity in the mouse liver every hour for 48 hours, they also found 10-fold more genes controlled by the 24-hour clock than previously reported."
- Michael R. Bernstein
from Bookmarklet
The UDP protocol? No, probably not. For something as high volume as the twitter feed dropped packets would be a real problem and they'd end up reinventing TCP's retransmission and congestion avoidance algorithms. There are better ways to waste one's time than reinventing TCP (not that it hasn't been done many, many times).
- DGentry
No he doesn't...I contest the result to the supreme court which I, of course, have in my pocket. They declared me the winner! Take that Al Gore!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What have I done? :::commits seppaku:::
- tehKenny
I'm sorry sir, you are going to have to exit the thread now...Sir? SIR!!!
- Morgan
A copy of the home game "Pointless FriendFeed Thread tehKenny just made up!"
- tehKenny
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... <- last comment sorted alphabetically. I win!
- ·[▪_▪]·
I called "last" all the way back at the start, y'all. Keep going all you like. Because, if you take it literally "The LAST comment in this thread wins". My comment was "Last".
- Nine
Matt: May you live in interesting times. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Bahhhh! Worth a try I guess. Reminds me of when school kids used to say "Twats Say What" really quick, of course... you could do nothing but say What?! ;)
- Matt Frog
Why do like dollar costs averageing, Alex?
- Roberto Bonini
It's a good way to minimize risk buying in to a down market or selling in to an up market. Since you never know where the bottom or top is.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? I googled "Who will win this thread" - Lo and behold an automotive forum thread was started March 2, 2006, has 3 comments just today (Feb 9, 2009), and has 975 comment pages totaling over ==> 14,600 COMMENTS <=== (and counting) http://forums.motortrend.com/70...
- Micah
Let's get this party started for real this time. American Football, Baseball, AND Basketball are all complete rubbish. You may create your mosh pit now
- Matt Frog
Ok folks! That's it! Drink up and get out! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! Everybody out! Thanks for coming! See you tomorrow. Don't worry, I'll lock up....
- Morgan
Hrm...it's possible this thread will never die
- Rah-PM 2012
i went away for a while, has anyone won yet ?
- Simon Wicks
tehKenny “The last comment in this t*h*read wins. GO!” 4 hours ago - Comment - Like - Hide - More Josh Haley, ·[▪_▪]·, Haggis (Sean), Rahsheen ™, AJ Batac, Steven Perez, Alex Scoble, Far, andy brudtkuhl, Ontario Emperor, Ethan Baker, LouCypher, Kol Tregaskes, VC Freak, Alfredo, Simon Wicks, Just Katie, Ben Jackson, Morton Fox and Morgan Haley liked this
- Johnny
im watching xmen, what are you doing?
- Simon Wicks
I admire the sticktoittiveness that you are all showing... but i must warn you...i have no life and winning this is the only thing I got keeping hope alive....come on man, please! just please let me have this one tiny little victory....please!!!
- Morgan
i know...it's almost sad now...the pathetic little attempts to post *anything!* sheesh...
- Morgan
*runs after Morgan to give worldly advice in a Morgan Freeman voice
- Matt Frog
*sits down to listen to the advice offered by Matt "Morgan Freeman voice" Harwood
- Morgan
Oh my God. My Internet went down. Came back up.... AND THE TREAD IS STILL ON!
- tehKenny
Well now, I remember when I was a boy, and I came to a crossroad in my life, similar to you. You see Morgan, there's no greater destiny, no greater accomplishment in life, than writing the last comment. Now my thread, my thread died. But yours, yours will succeed. Now fetch me a sandwich.
- Matt Frog
*Rises up with a renewed sense of purpose. Fetches a sandwich for Mr. Freeman. Realizes that there can be only one. One final comment. One victor. **begin training montage to 'Jukebox Hero' by Foreigner...**
- Morgan
What do I win? I don't want to participate till I read all the terms and conditions (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, etc..).
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give 'em a push. You'll be surprised, you're doing the French mistake....Voila!
- .LAG liked that
i hear jerusalem bells a' ringing, roman cavalry choirs a' singing...
- .LAG liked that
*THIS THREAD HAS BEEN LOCKED/UNDER MODERATION.* Please "Hide"
- Andrew Smith
Josh with his "Rush Rules", and then -crickets- for 45 minutes. I was staring at it and simple couldn't comment further. It had its own force shield.
- Micah
Sir, Yes Sir! No problem! Will HIDE immediately.
- Rah-PM 2012
@tehKenny/scobleizer I'm afraid you spawned a FriendFeed -inside- a single thread. That's right, a "µFF" service. For better or for worse (*danger* ...http://www.fborfw.com/strip_f... )
- Micah
Yo dawg, I heard you like to Friendfeed, so I put a Friendfeed in your Friendfeed so you can Friendfeed while you Friendfeed.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Zero-sum or infinity-sum? You decide. As long as Tyson has time to burn, we all win by virtue of his "likes".
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
One day, the world will click on the link to open the rest of the comments, while pleading "Save us!", and FriendFeed will simply answer "No."
- Josh Haley
I only have 425 comments! Look like blocking changes out what numbers you see.
- Anika
@Josh while black ink spreads across the FF logo.
- vijay
This challenge is like a puffer train in the game of Life (as in cellular automata). It is structured to go on forever. Does FF have the server capacity to handle an infinite thread?
- Tim Ostler
Somewhere soon a database table is going to cry.
- David Bisset (sn)
This thread is still going???????? I think they do, but don't blame me for a buffer overflow.
- Roberto Bonini
This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started writing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue writing it forever just because this is the thread that never ends...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I'm sorry, but as the king of England I do not recognize this victory.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
When I frickin' FELT like it, Simon. :P :)
- tehKenny
“The following thread will go on. But just so you know Anika won.” ~ BLASPHEMY
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
tehKenny has had his power to determine the winner of this thread stripped by the authority vested in the friendfeedosphere. Sorry man, but it's the last person who comments on this thread, ever. Not who you determine is the winner.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It is now 11:22 AM PST. If no one comments on this thread by 11:30 AM PST (you have 8 minutes) I declare myself the winner of this thread.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It is now 11:31 AM PST. You did not post anything. I did. So I win. Thanks for playing. This contest is now over!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Considering that I'm the last person to comment in this thread for over 24 hours, I hereby, once again, declare myself the winner.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But by doing so of course, you have re-ignited the contest. Catch-22.
- Tinfoil 2.0
oops, just BUMPed into this thread. I cant believe this is still floating around
- Threepwood
shouldn't feed this. this is madness. I think you set a record, tehKenny. I'm probably the 50th person to say so... a bit scared to open & see, but I will..... ok, no, amended per what Micah said. 14,600????? good luck touching that one. you set an FF record though, for sure
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
A fire alarm rang at 4 pm in a large office campus when almost all employees were present ( approx 5,000 people ). As per past fire-drill practices, the entire office was quickly evacuated within 3 minutes, and all employees gathered outside the complex in designated areas waiting for further announcement. Before long, the fire drill officer in-charge made the following broadcast over their loud-speakers system : " My dear colleagues : With sincere regret, I have been asked to announce that for many of you, this will be your last evacuation drill with us. Due to the on-going recession and bad business climate, the company is laying off almost 50% of its staff. So when this announcement finishes, I ask all of you to move back into the building. And if your swipe-card does not work, then it means that you have been laid off, in which case you will not be allowed inside, and all your personal belongings will be couriered to you by tomorrow. The company is using this innovative,...
- Bwana ☠
Definitely cool. Might be nice to just have some official repo of Greasemonkey scripts to tweak this stuff :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
My one little suggestion would be to put the icon over to the left of the date, so it's closer to the avatar, easier to catch in a single scan down the left hand side.
- Ken Sheppardson
Excellent work Mama Z and AJB! Loving this!
- vijay
Thanks all! I'm curious ab/t the positioning but since AJ's style has a flexible layout the positioning might be off.... oh well. proof of concept anyway :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
The CSS is basically looking for 'facebook' anywhere in the 'href' attribute then applying the background I grabbed from friendfeed's own icon inventory :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Hmm... Greasemonkey should be able to do anything it wants with the parent <div class="profile"> based on the service href...
- Ken Sheppardson
In fact, this has me thinking... Greasemonkey should be able to look at this link and if it's to twitter, replace the avatar with the avatar off the twitter service. This could solve an unrelated problem.... hm.
- Ken Sheppardson
Mama: I don't know if it'd make your life any easier, but FriendFeed uses jQuery so you have that available to your Greasemonkey scripts. For example: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Ken Sheppardson
True but writing CSS is faster for me than writing JQuery ;) but it's definitely a better option
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
The very first FF post I'm going to hide! Not because I don't like the subject, but because I don't like the movement. Very annoying to my eyes.
- Dawn
Boobies! But that's probably about it. Meh.
- Rah-PM 2012
Hot. And just like Jessica Alba, and Angelina it will become over done. You know who else is hot? Natalie Portman, Kiera Knightley etc... but they don't get the same coverage.
- Michael
She's a pretty girl who oozes sexiness. The only thing is she has done too much plastic surgery for me to say she is beautiful, but she is hot
- Shevonne
She's no Shevonne, Tina or Penguin, but she's not bad.
- Steven Perez
I love you Steven Perez! That made my day. =D
- Shevonne
She is gorgeous. I'ma marry that one someday. lol.
- Brandon Ball
Wait, she's had surgery? Then, I'm less impressed with her now. :\ Anyone can look hotter with surgery (well, almost anyone). But that pic really doesn't look like her. For one, Megan is skinny as hell--those boobs are much bigger than Fox's are in every other pic I've seen of her. They're still nice, of course.
- thepete
"Recent action by the Australian Government may see Google and many other popular websites banned in Australia under existing censorship laws. Under the Communications Legislation Amendment (Content Services) Act 2007 sites that link to content that is Refused Classification (RC) are considered themselves to be RC, and if hosted in Australia, site owners can be ordered to remove the link(s), or fined AU$11,000 a day."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Whitelist internet is something I've been warning people who'll listen. "they could never do that". Australia and China are blazing that trail.
- alphaxion
Hmm, why don't they just go all-out and ban Internet access altogether in Australia, and go back to the figurative technological stone age?
- Tyson Key
This is assuming that Google maintains any servers it has in Australia, correct? I mean, the copy included in the comment states that sites hosted in Australia can be ordered to remove links or fined, but doesn't specify non-Australian sites.
- FFing Enigma
This table measures 1.5 metres wide, and is strong enough to draw or cut on. What makes it unusual is that it folds flat enough to be portable, and is made entirely of biodegradable cardboard. Eco-friendly concerns and a clean, robust aesthetic are combined to provide a solution to cramped or 'occasional' working spaces where furniture must be kept to a minimum. The result is both practical and stylish. Source: http://www.inhabitat.com
- Sasha Kovaliov
from Bookmarklet