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Filtering Your Friends with FriendFeed

So FriendFeed has the new look over at beta.friendfeed.com and one of the kool new features is the ability to put your friends or people you subscribe to in groups to lower the noise or just allow you to get what noise you want based on what you are looking for in that group.  So how do you have your groups so far?  I would love to know as I am working on getting that all ironed out for myself

Right now I have 2 groups I have created in offline friends which would be coworkers, family, misc friends i know personally who might just have a flickr feed, maybe a blog, ect - I like to call these my none geek friends.  Then for my second so far is kc friends where I have local podcasters, social media geeks, and bloggers.

For now that is it....now I have to decide how am i gonna group others like Corvida, idonotes, wayne sutton, j.phil, ect.

So how are you using the new FriendFeed Filter?  Would love to hear any thoughts on the matter.  Basically I am just looking for ideas....hehe

Who My Stats Say I Find Interesting On FriendFeed

So every once in awhile I will check out my FriendFeed stats to see who am I really finding interesting, who I have liked or commented the most, who I am really digging.

So I thought hey what a good idea for a blog post....so with that here are the top 10 that I find interesting at this time.  I thought It would be a good way to share with my readers who might be new to FriendFeed or even my long time followers to find someone new to follow....if I find them interesting then you know they gotta be.  hehe

Corvia
J. Phil
Louis Gray
Mona N.
Mike Fruchter
Benjamin Golub
"Czar" DJ Peterman
Hao Chen
l0ckergn0me
Mark Wilson

who is on your list?  throw some up on the comments and maybe myself or someone else can find some new "interesting" people on FF.

Uniting FriendFeeder’s Around The Interweb

One of my fellow FriendFeeders Hao Chen has created a really kool little web app that lets you put in your FriendFeed username, select the service you want to check out....whamo! you got your list of links to your FriendFeed friends with accounts on that service.

Great way to find everyone you follow on the interweb.  It is in the early stages so you might find some issues but its a great start to what I think is a great little service.

[note : I already have found some people I follow on other services on other services like brightkite and del.icio.us  pretty sweet!]

Great Job Hao!

Find FriendFeed Across The Web

Making My Site More Friend(Feed)ly

These days I find myself spending more and more time on FriendFeed as it has pretty much become my place for following friends, following podcasts, following blog updates, and just finding kool new content in general...but for more on those thoughts make sure to check out my past posts on FriendFeed.

Today I want to talk about deciding to integrate FriendFeed with my site and really when it comes down to it there really is not much to it....a little designing, a little css, and a little embedding.

Designing The Page
First I setup my website with 2 <div>'s with one being for my menu on the left side and then the other being where my friendfeed content will be located.  This of course would just be what you are looking for look wise or what you find catches your eye.

Embedded FriendFeed
In order to get all your content from the site you have to use the following script from FriendFeed :

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://friendfeed.com/embed/widget/<USERNAME>"></script>

Obviously you will replace <USERNAME> with your username to grab your content and you can also add "?num=VALUE" to set how many entries you would like to be displayed at one time and then you can add "?source=VALUE" which would allow you to just get a service by itself (twitter, friendfeed, disqus, youtube, ect).

CSS
Once you add the script to your site and take a look at the content you are probably gonna find you wanna get rid of some of the default formatting that comes with the FriendFeed widget.  This of course would be based on taste and integration with the current look you are going with but here is my css to just get you started.

div.friendfeed {
margin-top: -5px;
}

.friendfeed .header {
display:none;
}

.friendfeed div.feed {
border:0px;
}

.friendfeed .feed .entry {
border-top: 2px dotted #cccccc;
}

I would like to give credit to Jason Griffey and his site for giving me the inspiration to do this.

So why did I do this?  Is this the end of my blog?  First let me say no its not the end of my blog....I find FriendFeed to be a great resource to help bring all the service you use togather and follow your friends in one place...so you will see my blog posts from jeffisageek.net/blog right there at the new jeffisageek.net.

As to why I did it well for me I am always looking for a new way to share my content (FriendFeed makes that pretty easy) and also I always enjoy just tinkering with a little code here a little css tweak there so in some ways it was just a little experiment to see what I could do and I must say I like what I have and think it is here to stay for awhile (or till I decide to mess around with something else...hehe).

Is this something you are interested in?  Have some questions?  Feel free to drop me an email or IM and I would be more then happy to help you out the best I can.