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daliburgado — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:58:22 -0000

Hey Louis, (and Alex)

Ping.fm allows you to update a lot of social networks with the push of a button - including friendfeed and twitter. I also, like Alex, have more people following me than I do on friendfeed and think they both have great features. I think friendfeed is a great place for community building and masterminding...I have a blog post forthcoming on that. :-) In the meantime, check out more info on ping.fm on my blog at: http://daliburgado.com/ping...

I look forward to reading more good stuff here Louis.
I appreciate you.
Dali Burgado

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #2: Using the Bookmarklet

Alex Hammer — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:23:05 -0000

Very nice post (as usual). I use the Friendfeed bookmarklet, and like it (it is simple and effective). One question I ask myself as I find pages of interest on the web, is do I want to use the Friendfeed bookmarklet to send them directly to Friendfeed, or do I want to instead (I use Twit.io.us I think it is termed) to send them to Twitter, and then Twitter information is picked up by Friendfeed. A couple of considerations in this regard. Twitter has higher adoption still than Friendfeed. I have significantly more people (but still not a lot) following me on Twitter than on Friendfeed. So if I post directly to Friendfeed, the people just on Twitter but not on Friendfeed never see it. If I post to both, it's repetitive on Friendfeed, which could annoy people, and of course it is also too time consuming to post to both. If I just post to Twitter (which sometimes I do do) that seems to be ok but seems less direct and less in line with my goal of Friendfeed being the primary service (for me) as opposed to Twitter, which I enjoy also.

The larger issue, to me, is whether Friendfeed is going to add more structure to discovery (e.g. popularity lists by overall members or specific members that are of interest to me) so that I can find the things that I want faster (eliminate unwanted noise - create better filters - time is money - hide function just a tiny baby step). Not that it will be a complete AI, but I want some sort of Friendfeed smart agent that can be set up to know what type of information that I want and grows smarter through use. Otherwise it has too much of a stumbleupon feel. No knock on that service, which is also a good one, but too random for my preference. I don't consider it efficient.

This same principle applies also to feed readers. I migrated largely from Bloglines to Toluu (and My Yahoo before that) because of the discovery element. But again, it is too roundabout (I won't say random), too time consuming and too inefficent. I want the discovery to be smart. I want it to get to know me. I have the same problem with Minggl and Snakr, the randomness of it, but those don't bother me as much because they are adjunct services that function autonomously (without my taking additional time except to glance down as they scroll across) on their own, so as the information comes up that I want I follow that. Now if you could combine this automatic functionality of Minggl and Snackr so that the results come to me instead of me taking up my time going to (searching out) the results, and combined that with intelligence to make discovery smart, then you'd have the killer app. I don't think I'd ever stop using that (as compared to the present state of what else exists currently).

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #2: Using the Bookmarklet

Rick Powell — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:26:09 -0000

The Shareaholic Firefox extension has had the exact same sharing functionality for FriendFeed, plus dozens of other bookmarking and social networking services, for at least a couple months. Works in FF 3 RC 1, as well.

http://shareaholic.com/

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #2: Using the Bookmarklet

Marcel Weiss — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:55:13 -0000

yeah, good tips. didn't knew posting pics on friendfeed was as easy as doing so on tumblr. nice

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #2: Using the Bookmarklet

mila_frerichs — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:53:19 -0000

great tip..especially your browser folder for sharing...i didn't even thought about it...