"We have heard from several users, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that a large number of you want Friendfeed backup support. So if you do, leave a comment on this post, send a twitter message to @robmay saying that we should support friendfeed, or tag a tweet with #backupfriendfeed."
- Mark Krynsky
I'm interested, as long as it's relatively user-friendly.
- Ladybug Heather
The one thing that keeps me from using Facebook more is that it is so cluttered. Hopefully things may change and become more simplified.
- Russ Sargeant
from iPhone
Does anyone currently use LifestreamBackup? How is it?
- Justin Whitaker
I haven't tried it yet but plan on doing so soon. Keep in mind its not a free service but they do offer a 15 day trial.
- Mark Krynsky
At $29 per year, it's cheap enough to take a flyer on. Just wondered if it was difficult to use your data once they archive it.
- Justin Whitaker
I'll probably write a review after trying out the service that will hopefully provide details.
- Mark Krynsky
cool, thanks Mark... I appreciate your efforts in this regard. I'd love a FF content backup. I need to get lifestreaming working on my WP blog, that way I own my lifestream :)
- Susan Beebe
Justin - excellent question - how is the data archived? what backup format / access options exist?
- Susan Beebe
Susan, I've been using WP-Lifestream plugin http://wordpress.org/extend... which I feel is the best one available for Wordpress. You can see it on my site here http://krynsky.com/lifestream/ It's great to know I have all my Lifestream data safely stored in my Wordpress database.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the info, Mark - I'll be giving the WP plugin a go on my own blog and ditching the lifestream I based on the Friendfeed API..!
- Andrew Terry
You can post images and mp3 files, post your entries to multi-groups via your account! It is beta, for feedbacks use: http://friendfeed.com/ffsched... I developed and @hmert designed the ui.
- Alp
from ffScheduler
The choice of domain name is of course yours that's why I asked about the reasons behind it :) I thought that it's an uncommon scheme. Single sign-on would still be handy.
- Alex Kapranoff
This is a fantastic service, particularly for corporations and large PR departments! Would be great to have a similar service for Facebook Fan Pages, esp. since FB now owns FF.
- Johns Hopkins
@Johns Hopkins I hate this news but it has been already sold :( I can't imagine about future of FriendFeed since it is completely irrelevant when compared to facebook.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
This service was awesome a month ago when I first found it. Thrilled that you've worked out the bugs and that it's live now! Congratulations!
- Chris Aldrich
@Chris, yes we proceeded to FF-API v2 and solved some problems with sponsorship :)
- Alp
One easy and useful feature to add, would be a character counter (or countdown) so that those who cross post to Twitter or who broadcast out via SMS can keep track of their post length for it's appearance on other services. Again, this is one of the most useful tools in all of social media! Thank you again.
- Chris Aldrich
very cool! A bookmarklet or a firefox extension in the works?
- Mitchell McKenna
I made a schedule to send a message 1000 years later to tell the world that 1000 years ago a gentleman booked this message. brilliant... I'm not going to die.
- xiawinter
Great UI for a service that is nice to have. Thank you.
- Vezquex: God of FF
@Alp: I see a slight bug (?). My Timezone is GMT+7, but when I 'connect' ffScheduler to FF, the time display that actually matches my local time is GMT+6. My guess: You forgot to factor in DST
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
good conjecture... guess we'll find out soon.
- Nathan Chase
It's also why I'm taking a wait and see approach and not listening to any of the "jump" posts
- Jesse Stay
NO I am sure they are selling because wave is coming, why should they sell to FB if FB is currently working on mini FF clone akka FB lite?
- abdellah
I wouldn't be surprised if an 'open-garden' version of Facebook arises from the foundation of FB Lite, and that version will be very similar to Friendfeed.
- Mo Kargas
If true, would make a lot of sense. But as abdellah says Wave makes great sense too. btw: 6:00am ? early bird?
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Alex: it's 8:07 a.m. here in San Antonio, Texas.
- Robert Scoble
well, if the friendfeed team takes over facebook lite it would be some good news.
- Mark Essel
I don't know where I stand on this, because while I don't use FF alot, I appreciate it. But I loathe FB as it slides into MySpace-ity.
- Trine Curtis
I agree with Trine there... I stopped using FB a while ago.. It was nothing more than a waste of time. At least with Twitter/FF it's useful interactions, most of the time. FB Lite looks interesting, but Facebook already lost me.
- Jared Quinn
just to add to what I said before, I think (mean speculating) the the new Google product that the executive Google told @robert S, may be a new Greader more social oriented, so let suppose that Greader change UI for a better (sharing+like) facility, what would happen?
- abdellah
My bet is on the obvious reason. They sold after seeing the pile of money
- Mirco
Facebook lite.... hmmm Isn't a hype? I read about 10 blog posts about this "project" this morning (I'm an early bird!) and I'm not convinced at all. Facebook is not a search engine, facebook is not a FriendFeed look alike even in a light version and groups in facebok are borings to say the less. The problem here is every web 2.0 sites or 2 dot 0 wannabe are trying to be 'expert' in...
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- Claude LaFrenière
Claude: Facebook is now a search engine. I disagree with you there. Mirco: sorry, $50 million isn't that much, I know Paul was hoping for a lot more when he started the company. In fact, Paul told me several times he wasn't interested in selling and wanted to go all the way and build an engineering-friendly environment.
- Robert Scoble
Mo: technology slowdown? Robert: its 11:16PM in Sydney
- Tyson
@abdellah Doesn't Google Reader already have a fairly decent like, comment, and sharing facility? It seems fairly complete to me aside from the fact that it does seem to gather social media reactions and display them inline. But neither does Friendfeed.
- Jim Reverend
from email
So you are saying he sold FF for whatever he could get before getting wiped out by a competing product? Hmm. Kinda makes me wish we could have seen the competing product slug it out instead.
- Trine Curtis
@jim, it is all about the perception that the UI may induce, for the moment Greader is just like any FeedReader, with some social feature enhancement, let think about a new design that bring all the social feature in the top of the scene reither then trying to hide them. a better UI should be a Thread based one) like in FF, at Greader it is a feed oriented one.just question (how long is the shared like conversation you have in Greader), at the best I will say a feed commented by ome people that all.
- abdellah
@abdellah I see what you're saying. And you're right, Google Reader could do well with a new UI that really highlights the sharing and social aspects that an online Feed Aggregator is really made for.
- Jim Reverend
Esp. for emerging markets, where many have no laptops but everyone has a mobile, FB Lite is brilliant move. It also moves Twitter closer to the dumb pipe many of us have been using it as w/FF (soon FB?!) being our primary aggregation of our stream. Twitter becomes a pure channel that lot of people use but noone ever goes to. But re Google, picture this - they (finally, now) pick up...
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- Thom Kennon
Facebook will destroy friendfeed, most likely, :(
- imran
Facebook Lite may be just a version of Facebook for bandwidth saving: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... It's quite possible: not only users with slow internet connections got poor Facebook-browsing experience, but also Facebook itself spends lots of money on abroad traffic and would gladly shrink these expenses.
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
FBlite does seem to lend credence that part of the reason FB bought FF was to avoid legal liability, as it brings more outright FF functionality online.
- Christopher Galtenberg
What triggered FF sale would be kindoff a mystery for The time beign, given the needs of capital for a steady growing perhaps FF FOUNDERS decide to play it safe, get less but get it now and keep developing under a better capital capture company; as for FB LITE we'll need to see what its focus would be aimed so that in future retrospective confirm or denie that it was the reason of the sale.
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
can someone answer me about iGoogle as social hub and answer 2 FB lite perhaps
- polou/indigo_bow
Hard to know if the FriendFeed team knew about FB Lite and if it precipitated their decision. Guess they saw they were lagging in terms of network effect and that it was hard to forecast if they would ever gain more momentum that they already had amongst some early adopters. It might have been the best time for them to tie their future up with a bigger player.
- Paul Papadimitriou
@robert and all, have any one checked the improvement of GREADER (damn it is worth caps) , in Greader the answer to the question why FF sell to FB.
- abdellah
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди