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Improve FriendFeed for your friends by recommending subscriptions - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

July 24, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Nice! Friends, please send me recommendations :) - joey

Excellent feature, gooood idea! - Susan Beebe

Very cool =) - FFing Enigma

Cool stuff. - Mike Bracco

gr8 - حاج مهدی ©

Uh, it tells me that Scoble, among others, could use the recommendations. WTF? Perhaps I have too few subscriptions for this to work. - Fred Yankowski

more good stuff - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Finally a better recommendation - directeur

I'd still love an "e-mail this item" feature, similar to Google Reader. - Jesse Stay

great idea! - Edwin Khodabakchian

Cool! Beats the heck out of #followfriday!! - Larry Hawes

What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else. - FFing Enigma

Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you. - Bret Taylor

Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible. - FFing Enigma

Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it. - Bret Taylor

At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about? - Liza + = ?

Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like.... - FFing Enigma

I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug. - Meryn Stol

Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog. - Bret Taylor

User-driven...I like. - Josh Haley

Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us? - Fred Yankowski

@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender? - Roberto

Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed. - Ross Miller

Roberto: yes, they see who recommended - Bret Taylor

Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant. - FFing Enigma

Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical) - Meryn Stol

and can I see who has accepted my recommendation? - Roberto

Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender. - Ross Miller

Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn) - Fred Yankowski

Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations - Bret Taylor from email

Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :) - Meryn Stol

hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life.... - Bob DeMarco

I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot. - Ben Hanten

Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily. - Natsuki Seika

Definitely better than #followfriday. - Bernie Goldbach

As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user? - Kol Tregaskes

fatma küfür istiyor - Joan Miro

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Ping.fm vs HelloTxt. Which one do you prefer. And Why?

August 6, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I haven't used HelloTxt, but from first impressions of the webpage it doesn't look quite as nuanced as ping.fm - seems more about status updates only. Ping.fm allows blog and microblog posting as well and I like the flexibility. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with doing one thing well. - David Young

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http://weblog.techdad.net/2008... - Rah-PM 2012

I like hello.txt because I could actually log into it without getting a beta invite. For me, they have first mover status. :P - Justin Whitaker

Good point Justin, but Ping.fm invite codes are so freely available these days, I don't even know why they're still required - Rah-PM 2012

HelloTxt - because it has an SMS gateway. - Alja Sulcic

Ping.fm - The triggers are very useful - Bwana ☠

Sounds pretty even right now. Someone should post a feature comparison grid! - Glenn Batuyong

Hello.txt with SMS gateway; while Ping.fm with IM support. Hello.txt is two way (at least on the web interface); while Ping.fm could only send messages, not receiving. - Jansen Lu

I'm trying to get SMS working at hellotxt, but it rejects saying that I'm not sending to a "vaild 10 digit code" - ideas anyone? - Steve Isaacs

Thanks for the updates, everyone. Does either service work well with Blackberry? - Ryne Nelson

would anyone use Hellotxt as a two-way communication tool? or just treating it as a message broadcaster? - Jansen Lu

HelloTxt: nicer interface and more services supported, though I tend to use both 'cos I'm a nerd ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol my Ping.fm's interface is very clean and neat, 'coz it's only the gtalk conversation windows :P - Jansen Lu

I'm leaning toward TelloText though I haven't really given Ping.fm a fair shot. - Kimberly J

I use Ping.fm and I like it better because they keep adding great new innovative features. And you can use it with many different applications like Twirl, Spaz, etc. - Guitarguy234

Ok, so what is the term for FriendFeed Post Necromancy? Because this is the poster child for it. - Justin Whitaker

Ok..i love pingfm..and now im using posterous. - Dan Kern

http://unlimitedscript.blogspot.com - Dan Kern

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