“So how does one follow FriendFeed like you follow services such as Twitter and Pownce? I don't see a desktop app or something that does those things....thoughts?”
Thanks Bwana. That helped a lot! Now I can focus on less than 3 services :) I even had Twhirl installed and didn't realize it supported FF. - Paul Wade
I would definitely use that as a filter if I didn't have time to go through everything - Paul Arterburn
You could use the 'hide' function and then under 'more options' you can chose just to display items with comments and likes - you would have to do that service by service, but if you just start with Twitter and work from there, it cuts down 'noise' very quickly. - Frederic
Robert, are you starting post just messages in FriendFeed? Why not Twitter? - Ian Betteridge
Ian: because this was a FriendFeed specific question and I know there's enough people following me here that I'd get a good answer fast. - Robert Scoble
Frederic: that won't work. I want to see all Twitters sometimes. Other times I just want to see the ones with comments. Other times just the ones with likes. Weird that I can see my own that way, but I can't see your items that way. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
We should make this easier, but it is not really possible right now. Sorry, Robert. - Bret Taylor
Ian: it took 12 minutes to get an answer from Bret Taylor, one of the founders of FriendFeed. Like I said, no need to use Twitter anymore for some questions. :-) - Robert Scoble
granted, if I chose this option, I'd never see updates on FriendFeed, but, it'd be handy for high volume users - such as yourself - Enrique Gutierrez via Alert Thingy
Where is auto-follow? In Twitter? FriendFeed? (I may regret this question, but until then, point me in the right direction). Gracias. - Dan Keldsen via Alert Thingy
Autofollow? I turned it off. It was done specifically by Twitter's engineers for some of us. You gotta talk one of the Twitter engineers into turning it on for you. - Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert - will look into whether I'm interested/desperate/lazy enough to find a Twittgineer. - Dan Keldsen via Alert Thingy
Mike: nah, but Dave Winer isn't following me so I guess he doesn't want to see anything from me. - Robert Scoble
For each service, click Hide then More Options. Then click to hide that service unless it has comments or likes. - engtech
Verbose/Terse/etc... settings for FriendFeed? Can we have a switch to move between various custom-settable modes depending on our desire? Sometimes I just want a quick overview of major articles (e.g. only blog posts, no Twitters or Del.icio.us), sometimes I might want only photos, other times I might want to see everything because I'm browsing. For example (BLOGS only, Articles only, BLOG & Twitter, etc...) Also, with & without comments/likes/etc.. - Mitchell Tsai
FriendFeedMachine's Stream view lets you filter that way - via FriendFeedMachine - Scott Goldie
You may use bTT; you may filter services directly from the tool; www.sobees.com/btt - Vincent RITHNER
Thanks Jared, Scott & Vincent for the suggestions. I'm looking at them now. I was thinking not of a filter by service, but more of a customizable drop-down menu option on the right-hand side of my FriendFeed page; e.g. (1) Blogs & Articles & Del.icio.us, No comments/likes (2) Blogs only, No comments/likes (3) Blogs & Pictures, Yes comments/likes (4) Photos only, Yes comments/likes (5) Everything except Twitter, Yes comments/likes. - Mitchell Tsai