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Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:46:02 -0000

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

fredwilson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:38:02 -0000

This is the number one issue/feature request I hear about

Fred

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RealBird.com — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:27:24 -0000

I wonder if these aggregators has some sort of protocol in place or planned, so that nobody ends up creating (intentionally or unintentionally) an infinite loop, a "video feedback loop" for feeds. Like MyBlogLog aggregating FriendFeed and FriendFeed aggregating MyBlogLog. As these services will develop further into their own verticals and creating distinct services on top of the core aggregation feature, it can explode into something unexpected. I am not sure that the root Url is sufficient enough to be tracked by. This problem will certainly effect usability at some point in the future and usability is simply the biggest deal when it comes to aggregators like FriendFeed.

-- Zoltan

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isayusay — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:32:03 -0000

Thanks for your idea. We'll add the features to post media buzz by groups in layers and to sort media buzz by friends after we launch the friend remix feature in the upcoming release on isayusy.

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

daryn — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:59:50 -0000

I got my first friendfeed comment (that I've noticed) today, and really would like to second #6 (comments posted back to blog/flickr/comment system)

I signed up for friendfeed awhile back, but hadn't really given it much thought. However, I think many of the items on your "ten things" list really rings true for any aggregating service, or any service with overlapping features.

For these two in particular, I wonder if AdaptiveBlue's SmartLinks can at least be part of the answer...
- If you're going to have an MP3 link on your site, show a player.
- If you're linking to a photo/photo page, show a preview.

I'd love to see a "Best Practices for Social Media" post. I suppose a wiki entry would make the most sense :)

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

Joe Lazarus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:09:58 -0000

Graysky, there's a somewhat buried feature that lets you hide certain content like Twitter posts from people you're already following through Twitter itself. For example, if you click on the "options" link next to one of the Twitter posts, you'll see a link to "hide entries like this". It's not perfect, but it helps with the problem you described. Thought you may have missed it... I did till recently.

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

fredwilson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:17:02 -0000

Oh, that list is about 100 long but fortunately many third party services are doing them now

Fred

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Scabr — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:08:49 -0000

Sorry...I'm waiting your future "Ten Things I'd Like Twitter To Do" :)

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fredwilson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:36:07 -0000

Inside joke. Nice

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fredwilson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:36:07 -0000

Not sure I understand your question

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Sahil Desai — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:41:21 -0000

All of these are awesome ideas but the one thing that I really really want is to be able to add my own type of feed (eg. I'd love for my Disqus comments to show up). With regard to the 10 things you brought up I completely agree! I started using FriendFeed way back before it was even public and could never really bring myself to get into it, mostly because no one else I knew was on there. Now that it's getting more publicity I'm liking the direction.

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Bob Caswell — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:09:28 -0000

I concur. If the majority of your list was implemented, FriendFeed would move from "cute" to "useful" in my book.

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gregory — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:52:44 -0000

should work like the mind works at a party, listen to who i want, and block out the rest, then shift to another group... hard, eh?

i don't want to have to do anything more than choose which (set of feeds) party i am going to that night, and have the rest be pure discovery

maybe in about xx years

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

andersondb8 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:43:08 -0000

I was working on a list just like this, I think you covered everything I thought of and more. I just hope we could get a few of these soon. Maybe a third party when the api is released.

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Scabr — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:43:13 -0000

Nice program.What about Twitter to do?:)

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jackson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:25:40 -0000

What if..........

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awilensky — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:27:14 -0000

It's too much Fru-Fru. Too many services, too many aggregators, too many ways to receive inconsequential comments. What I want:

A more elegant way to pull it all together , not many ways to fragment it. Someone smarter than I must have an idea. The best service would one that flattens the inbound conversation, and allows one to direct the outbound messages.

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

davidblack — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:16:27 -0000

Yes, the 'minimalist' FriendFeed layout works pretty well on iPhone.

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Louis Gray — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:51:40 -0000

I read FriendFeed via iPod Touch frequently, and I have no complaints. It's not optimized for it, but it certainly works. I've made comments and "Liked" items via iPod Touch several times. iPod Touch and iPhone share the same interface, so it should be the same there as well.

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davidblack — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:51:35 -0000

Good suggestions. I want to be able to add friends to groups, and have the option to use these groups to filter the stream - so I could scan through work-related posts separately from post from close friends, for example.

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kskobac — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:10:09 -0000

A big change that I think needs to be done on FriendFeed concerns how they import content from Del.icio.us ; whenever you have "notes" filled out as description for a Del.icio.us bookmark, it imports to FriendFeed as a comment. Now when you use FriendFeed and filter to "comments" it shows me the hundreds of descriptions you have for Del.icio.us tags, which is somewhat irrelevant and keeps from being able to easily see the general discussion around the content element itself.

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:49:02 -0000

I have no idea since I don't use one. Does anyone else know?

Fred

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:02 -0000

Wow

The tricky one is letting people read directly in friendfeed. Publishers/bloggers want the page views and click thrus (I don't care myself)

So you'll have to tread carefully there but I know your users will love not having to click thru and back

Fred

Re: Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do

Bret Taylor — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:20:33 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Wanted to let you know we all read them here at FriendFeed, and I agree with you on almost every single request.

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Gus — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:09:09 -0000

Do you think Friendfeed is iPhone friendly?.