Last week, while in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo, I was invited to go check out the new version of FriendFeed. Not being from the area, and to be honest, not having time to figure out how far away the office was from the Expo, I didn’t even pull up the address for [...]
Alan Cheslow, a FriendFeed fanatic whose entire personal web site is built around the service, has just created a new widget which FriendFeed fans are definitely going to love. Unlike the official FriendFeed widgets that show off your stats or your feed, this new widget shows off your friends instead. The FFavatars widget is sort [...]
Many people have made arguments for the productive uses of FriendFeed, noting its liveblogging rooms, potential for blog fodder, community building aspects, etc. Those are all great reasons to love the site, but at the end of the day, I still see FriendFeed as a timesuck. A huge, glorious, fabulous, incredible timesuck. I’ve been spending [...]
Today, I asked this question on Twitter and I got some interesting responses: Now I’m really curious. I was surprised to see so many NO’s. I guess I thought that most of the people following me on Twitter would probably be social media enthusiasts who loved the FriendFeed service, too. This is a great example [...]
FriendFeed Better FriendFeed is a new Greasemonkey script based on the work done by Duncan Riley and AJ Batac. Basically, it’s a bunch of great FriendFeed scripts in one. With Better FriendFeed, you can do the following: Add and remove custom tabs to FriendFeed simply by specifying the URL and/or favicon UR Activate Cleaner FriendFeed [...]
Other Adobe AIR clients have had trouble competing with Twhirl thanks to that app’s overwhelming popularity among Twitter users, but a little app called Posty has a shot. That’s mainly due to the fact that it offers the ability to multi-post to a number of services in a manner that’s similar to how HelloTxt or [...]
You know how this goes – you mark it for later and then don’t get around to it. Maybe these wouldn’t have filled out an entire blog post or maybe there’s not that much to say about them, but they’re worth a mention nonetheless. They’re kind of awesome. This is no spliced in del.icio.us link [...]
Posty, an Adobe AIR app I mentioned briefly here is a tool that lets you update Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed, and Pownce all at once. Today, this app has received an update which brings with it several new features that make the app much more useful than before. These new features include the ability to [...]
I’ve been looking into ways to get my followers in sync between the various services I’m using, mainly FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, and Identi.ca. It’s not easy. Of course there’s the Twitter 2 FriendFeed Importer, but ultimately, adding contacts is still very much a manual process these days. I tend to batch this process on a [...]
FriendFeed/Twitter AIR app Feedalizr has just launched into beta today. They had been previously been in a public alpha, but they now feel that their feature set is rich enough and enough of the bugs have been squashed to qualify their app as a beta. Along with the launch, feedalizr has been updated with a [...]
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