The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed Part 3: ROOMS. « TheNextWeb.c. 19 January '09, 10:40pm Follow If there’s one area of Friendfeed which I find most outsiders don’t know/understand it’s Friendfeed’s Rooms. To stress the value/importance of rooms,I’m happy to admit Rooms are where I spend most of my time on Friendfeed…mainly because you know what you’re going to get.
Let me explain… What is a Friendfeed Room? A room at it’s most basic level is a mini-version of Friendfeed, a place where you can set the subject/theme and people can share content into that specific room. Types of Friendfeed Rooms You can create: Private Rooms (requires invites and are not indexed by search engines)Semi-Private Rooms (anyone can read or comment, only room admins can post)Public Rooms (anyone can access or join the room) Private Rooms Private Rooms are a really useful option when it comes to collaboration or private content. Team DiscussionsPrivate BookmarkingPrivate ChatroomPrivate NewstreamAggregating ContentEgo Feed (a feed of everything that mentions your name or your company) Who Is That New Follower? Ask Socialwhois. While the names of some new followers I get on Twitter or Friendfeed immediately ring a bell, with others, I have no idea who the person might be. Typically, I can make a “re-follow decision” within a few seconds by checking out their profile and clicking thru to whatever links they provide, but for those looking for another layer of detail, Socialwhois is a new service you might find somewhat useful.
Much like a domain name whois, Socialwhois provides additional data for a username on Friendfeed or Twitter. By default, this appears to be done by trying to cross-reference the two sites – for example, before signing up, Socialwhois seemed to associate my Twitter username with several other accounts that are listed on my FriendFeed profile. But, not satisfied with what Socialwhois calls a “guessed profile,” I decided to setup my own profile on the site, which is where it gets interesting. Ultimately, Socialwhois seems to serve as an extended profile for Twitter and FriendFeed users. Friend Deck: An aggregator for friendfeed. Login. 10 Useful Tips to Using FriendFeed.
FriendFeed is increasingly becoming a popular social media tool for being a social aggregator with community features. It was one of the first to use the “Like” functionality that more and more web sites (e.g. Facebook, Digg, Seesmic, etc.) are adopting. Additionally, FriendFeed has built a social community that allows you to quickly find an answer to any kind of question that you ask, or get to know other people who share similar interests. New users are usually overwhelmed by the social media site, and are not sure what to do or where to begin.
Here are ten useful tips to enjoying all that FriendFeed has to offer: 1. If you plan on only aggregating Twitter into FriendFeed, you won’t get the full experience of the service. 2. You are able to receive email, IM, and/or desktop notifications for your and other people’s posts. 3. FriendFeed provides a variety of options to publish items to Twitter. 4. 5. Enter a brief description about yourself, so that people can get to know you better. Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed - 6/15/2009 - Library. FriendFeed rolls out redesign plus list-replacing email features. FriendFeed rolled out its redesign earlier this month in beta. The life-streaming service’s changes were controversial because it hid some features in the old interface, and more importantly made everything update in real-time. It’s similar to what Facebook is working on with its own redesign — but many FriendFeed users didn’t want real-time.
However, the results have apparently been good enough for the FriendFeed team that it’s now introducing the redesign to its full user base, as it announced today on its company blog. And, the launch also comes with some new email features. Considering that the company is comprised of Paul Buchheit (the creator of Gmail) and other early, product-focused Googlers, it’s best to pay attention when it mentions email. From the company: We are also launching an exciting new feature with this redesign: FriendFeed by Email ( Feeds are a key way to help people stay in touch with the world around them. Twitter is officially dead. - Alex Scoble. While Twitter Jumps The Shark The Cool Kids Jump To FriendFeed. I’ve been pulling the night shift with the new baby lately, so I was up at 2am when Ashton Kutcher and CNN were in the heat of their battle to 1 million Twitter followers. That next day Oprah had her big Twitter show and sky rocketed the Twitter userbase by over 2 million people.
Later that same night I watched Larry King interview Kutcher, P. Diddy and Jimmy Fallon about the wonders of Twitter. I thought this a little too well orchestrated and it seems I’m not the only one. Twitter’s @SteveOuch exposes how almost half of all the many Twilebrity’s followers are fake. Regardless if this was an elaborate publicity stunt or not, Twitter has begun to lose it’s luster. It’s no longer the next cool thing. Why The Cool Kids Are Flocking to Friendfeed While there are many reasons for you to spend more time on Friendfeed, below are a few of the more refreshing aspects of a much under utilized service. 1. 2. Friendfeed is after all a collection of your personal feeds. 3. 4. 10 + tools to pimp out your Friendfeed. We're big fans of FriendFeed, the social network aggregator that helps you keep track of your friends' activities across different platforms like Twitter, LastFM, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and about 1,000 36 others.
If you're a fan or if you're just getting started, below are 10 tools to help you experience it just the way you like, after the jump. 1. Filter FriendFeed by Service - when you don't want one big data dump, this Greasemonkey user script allows you to filter streams by individual services and by context. After installing, you will get a display box of the 41 service icons. If you are within a specific user's stream, then clicking on the icons will filter by that app for that particular person. If you're browsing within friends, then clicking on the icons will filter by that service on all your friends' activity. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Note: we could not edit the filter groups we created by clicking on the edit button. 10.
SocialWhois » Home Page. FriendDeck: Now an Adobe AIR App for Tracking FriendFeed - ReadW. Last week we introduced you to FriendDeck, a new online application that lets you monitor FriendFeed in a way that's very similar to how the Adobe AIR app, TweetDeck, monitors Twitter. Within FriendDeck's columns, you can track FriendFeed searches, users, friends, lists, rooms, and more. Recently, FriendDeck developer Paul Kinlan released an Adobe AIR application of his FriendFeed tracking tool.
Although still rough around the edges, this app has potential to become a viable alternative interface to FriendFeed for the service's heaviest users. FriendDeck's AIR App: Still Early, Could be Awesome One of the best features of the new AIR application is how it syncs with the online version of FriendDeck. But let's be clear. Yet despite these problems - all of which are being addressed according to the developer - I still can't get enough of FriendDeck. Use FriendDeck to Follow Your Lists, Rooms, and Searches There are a couple of ways you can use FriendDeck. Too Complicated? Choosing Your Social Media Drug. Last week I noted that of all of the social media sites, I’m probably most engaged with Facebook right now. Twitter tends to fragment my attention too much, so I started restricting my time on it to about an hour a day. The conversation there is too disjointed for me, and it’s impossible to find and refer back to all the pieces of a conversation even just a few days later.
The best I’ve been able to manage is to use TweetDeck to create groups to check in on periodically, as opposed to trying to keep up with everyone all the time. I still don’t let myself sit on Twitter for too long because as Ed Vielmetti says, “If you keep refreshing it will never, ever stop..” In fact, my rule of thumb on any social site is that I never hit the “older” button. Then FriendFeed came along, which helped unify conversations and brought pictures, audio, and video into the mix.
Be Sociable, Share! 4 Microblogging Firefox Tools You Shouldn’t Ignore | MakeUseOf.c. It seems that the world and his dog now have a Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku or Plurk account. Some of us see these services as an extension of our mobile phone or our blog, some as a way to get into internet communications. Whatever you like to call it, microblogging has propelled itself into the internet limelight. It seems that people just can’t get enough of posting 140 characters of text. Perhaps the reason these services have become so widespread is that the creators of these networks have released public API’s, allowing third party developers to utilize the services these networks offer.
Examples of these API’s at work can be found inside our very favourite internet browser; Mozilla Firefox. Eliminating the need to install software and run it on your desktop, Firefox allows you to install powerful add-ons that add to the functionality of pre-existing websites. 1. One of it’s most useful features is the ability to quote text on any given webpage. 2. Yoono currently supports MSN, Yahoo! HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed. Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter. FriendFeed is a social media feed aggregator that makes it easy to follow many different individuals’ various social activities on the Web all in one convenient place, instead of jumping from service to service (and having to create new accounts ad infinitum!)
To see what the people you’re most interested in are doing. It’s basically a continuous river of information that you can use as a virtual water cooler of news and content, but it’s also interactive – you’re encouraged to comment on other people’s stories, “like” something that resonates with you, and more. If you’re looking for something that is a one-stop solution for a variety of different content frames: feed readers, micro-blogging, images, etc, then FriendFeed is a good fit. Let’s look at a few tips for both beginning and more advanced FriendFeed users that can help you make this service as useful as possible. The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed Part 2: Getting Started. In part 1 of this series on Friendfeed, I brought up a list of reasons which I had found made Friendfeed quite possibly the best social network / news discovery service I have ever used.
Today I’d like to give you some ideas (in order) of how to get started on Friendfeed. Part 2: Getting Started 1. Set up your profile: Friendfeed, unlike many other web 2.0 sites has very little focus on your ‘bio’ or ‘about you’ section of your profile however by adding your other services such as Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, your blog and a few other services it automatically gives people a solid overview of who are you and the kind of content your going to be bringing into your prospective followers feed. 2. 3. 4. 5. Again, you can find a list of the most active and most popular rooms on Friendfeed via FFHolic but also Friendfeed has just integrated their own ‘room directory’ which can be accessed by clicking ‘Rooms’ in the sidebar. 6. 7. 8. 9 Comment away. 10. 11. 12.