How The Real Time Web Works : FriendFeed On The Inside
This video pretty much show us what makes FriendFeed work and why they have THE real time web.
I knew LEGO had to be part of it somehow!!!
My Guest Appearance On The FFundercats
Last week I got a great chance to be a guest host on one of my favorite podcasts FFundercats which is a show that's subject is about a service I have come to love in FriendFeed. FFundercats is a podcast by FriendFeeders, for FriendFeeders, and about FriendFeed.
One of the regular hosts Josh Haley was out on vaction and Johnny Worthington asked if I could fill in and help talk about some of the big news around the web from the week as well as some of the goings on around FriendFeed.
I had an awesome time and look forward to maybe getting on the show again real soon!
On a side note I was glad with how I sounded as I was using my new USB headset which has really improved my sound quality when doing various shows. If you are looking for someone to be on your podcast feel free to contact me as I love chatting with other geeks about all things geeky.
[Check out FFundercats Episode 41]
Thanks again Guys!!
ffollo – Auto Follow FriendFeeders
I found a kool service I have started using to follow those who either "like" or comment on my FriendFeed posts automatically. It is called ffollo.
Basically it is pretty simple you log into the service and set you preference of who you want to follow....those who like or comment on your posts or even those who like or comment on posts you liked or commented on...you can even extend it out to your groups and saved searches I believe.
One thing I did was when I set it up I created a group on FriendFeed called ffollo and place all my new follows there to kinda see what they are doing on FriendFeed and If I am liking what I see I can move them over to my main Home feed. very kool option to have.
The service was created by Paul Kinlan who has been great at answering any questions or helping with any bugs I have found. It goes without saying this service is in early early beta so you might find a few things that need to be tweaked and such.
Discussion on FriendFeed about the service [embedded]
Fresh From FriendFeed today
Game Over
Which Of These Men Will Be Our Lantern?
I almost forgot about you Rock ‘N’ Jock
R.I.P… Rest In Pizza
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Seven Go-Bots that kick their Transformers counterparts’ asses
Rice crispy treat by the crap ton!
it was good I will tell you that 
me taking video at the smckc breakfast this morning
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#bacon and other stuff
Kansas City Cafe #2
Kansas City Cafe
Dont park here or else
Kansas City Cafe
FriendFeed Brings The Real To Real-Time Search
Below is the story posted on FriendFeed about real time search being added as well as an example of it in action and embedded right in my blog post! how kool is that!
Here is an example of the real-time search in action showing everything coming up with the term "FriendFeed"
(jeff)isageek’s FriendFeeding for June 25th, 2009
who would win? John McClane or Rambo?
who do you think would win?
Stop Working! Go To The Movies!!!
good idea
Behold! The toilet upon which dreams are made…
would be interesting
Porta-Pizza Oven
mmm mobile pizza
Dot Overdose
haha love it
PIKACHU, NO!!
zombie pikachu?
Why IE is Better: Can Firefox do THIS?
MyVibe Thighs-On: First iPhone Vibrator App Approved by Apple
think my wife will be wanting to get an iphone now
anyone have this app?
FriendFeed Icon Pillow is up next!!!
adding the Twitter Icon Pillow to my collection
It's Not A Game. Take Action!
Superheroes
Imperial Hooters
Star Wars: The evil galactic empire takes a toilet break
How ice cream is made.
I giggle everytime i see this picture
Be Aware of Invisibility
(jeff)isageek’s FriendFeeding for June 24th, 2009
Happy Birthday to Joss Whedon
The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S: The Ultimate Showdown
Scarlett Johnansson
I love scarlett
Family Guy x Doctor Who
skull swap - It’s like a Beastie Boys video…but with a squirrel instead of Mike D.
What are you drinking meme http://friendfeed.com/banane/10ac90ee/what-are-you-drinking-meme
I have a nice big cup of cold ice water!
Giordano's, Chicagos World Famous Stuffed Pizza
enjoyed this when i was in chicago. yummy!
Minimalist remake of Empire Strikes Back poster.
for A New Hope http://aldousmassie.com/cgi-bin/remakes/images/starwarsfull.jpg
and Return of the Jedi http://aldousmassie.com/cgi-bin/remakes/images/jedifull.jpg
very kool!
we will set you on fire!
oscar
he is a slave to the rhythm
Warning: Water
who knew?
Dark Side
nice
Advertisement Flyer Fail
gothic hottie
Afro Sheen
OH, #@#!!!
haha love it
Washington, D.C.
I wanna draw bunnies
Lasagna lovin’ boobies!
It will blow your mind!
procrastination
(jeff)isageek’s FriendFeeding For June 21st, 2009
welcome
bunnie kittie
E.T. and Soundwave share a slurpee
Alter LEgo
ping pong transformers
I have been programmed to rock and roll all night!
poor at-at
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitchen Appliances”
(jeff)isageek’s FriendFeeding for June 18th, 2009
This computer does not support my cow/banana needs…
six-pack abs
word!
Olivia Munn in Iron Man 2
If you can read this....
tough times…
"Transformers Fun Facts"
some kool litle facts about the new movie. a few examples • Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
• Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
Retro Computer Heaven
clean your room
bubble wrap
.its not a purse its a satchel! Indiana Jones wore one!
agreed. hilarious movie
sign it?
hello scarlett!
(jeff)isageek’s FriendFeeding For June 17th, 2009
International poster for Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
megan fox meme
from this http://thedw.us/post/124971803/late-links-fiance-a-porn-star-thats-a
A meme is born
from this pic http://thedw.us/post/124971803/late-links-fiance-a-porn-star-thats-a
The Greatest Megan Fox Pic of Our Times
the meme has begun! http://friendfeed.com/jeffisageek/d4b7be35/meme-is-born
another pic from the meme - http://friendfeed.com/jeffisageek/9bc818c0/megan-fox-meme
Absolut iPhone
that wasnt chicken
hair gel
LEGO Zombies!!!
zombies + lego = win
letterspacingisimportant
This > Terminator Salvation
very kool!
very kool
colorful night
very kool
Twilight with a twist
agreed would love to see this version
oh hai!
The robots are attacking!!
FeedStats – Bringing You The Stats From FriendFeed
I recently wrote a blog post about a kool new service called What The Hashtag?!? by the gang at Microblink well they are at it again releasing the service call FeedStats which bring you all those stats that us geeks just love to get about the services we use.
Today we’d like to announce our second public project, FeedStats. FeedStats exists for the purpose of visualizing FriendFeed users’ data to see how they interact not only with the service, but with other users. It’s a quick way to find what services they’re using, when they post, and who interacts with their content the most.
With FeedStats you can get info like how much you or someone else is posting daily, what services you are using the most to post content, which day do you post the most, who are you most compatible with on FriendFeed, ect ect.
According to FeedStats I post an average of almost 67 times a day, I like Monday's to post and I use FriendFeed the most when it comes to services with Twitter not far behind.
This kind of service is not only a great way to see how you and others are using the service it also allows you to find others on FriendFeed that might have the same interests as you and worth a follow.
An example of a user page
Using FriendFeed As My Twitter Client
This past weekend I decided to make a change with how I interact with Twitter by setting up FriendFeed to be my client of choice to monitor, post, and reply on Twitter.
So far it has been pretty effective but there are a few holes at the moment like if someone is not a friend or imaginary friend of mine of Facebook I will not get their @ replies (using tweetbeep to catch any that fall in the cracks at this time) as well as the ability to have mobile posts automatically post to twitter (it can be done in settings but I dont want every message to go to twitter).
My main goal with going this route is to get as much of my online activity onto FriendFeed...I really enjoy the service and how it allows me to find out what is hot out there on the web, allows me to interact with a great community, and share all kinds of great content and such with my followers.
How is this done you ask? It is pretty easy really just create groups of your FriendFeed friends like for mine I have one for the guys of my favorite podcast the ffundercats, local twitter users, and one for the gang on the social geeks podcast. Once I have them in a group I create a saved search pulling only their twitter posts and getting rid of the rest. With that you now have a twitter stream to your liking! If you are interested in trying something like this out let me know and I can help you set it up.
I now have FriendFeed as my news stream, my podcast stream, my twitter stream, and pretty much my finger on the pulse of the web and even the world. Pretty kool huh?
Monday I posted to FriendFeed that I was making the switch to FriendFeed as my Twitter client and a pretty good discussion opened up so I wanted to share it with you to check out and even get your thoughts and input....so if you are on FriendFeed give us your 2 cents on the subject.
FriendFeed – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Found this great song related to friendfeed to the tune of the Cheers theme song. Cant believe I missed this the first time and just found it. Enjoy!
Twitter And FriendFeed Down At The Same Time!!!
Ok at this moment I am unable to access twitter or friendfeed!!! How is one suppose to live like this! Hope they come back soon.
So that brings up the question both are down...what do you do now?
Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience
Are you a new user to FriendFeed? Maybe been using it for awhile? Real time feed have your eyes spinning as it flys by on the screen? Well have you checked out saved searches to help you manage your stream?
Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. Some of the searches I have (once called filters) are ones looking for posts just about bacon, hot friendfeed discussions, or up and coming posts and the list goes on and on.
One great reference to use is the FF Saved Searches Group on FriendFeed which will keep you upto date with any new ones out there to grab as well as great discussion on how to maybe tweak that search you have.
Check that out and if you have any questions or wanna talk searches feel free to comment or shoot me a message sometime.
Bring FriendFeed To Your Site with Sharing
One of the kool new features added to the beta version of friendfeed is the ability to share posts from the service. You can share them on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Del.icio.us, and even embed it into your page like I did below with one of the Talk Social News episodes with my fellow Social Geeks contributor Wayne Sutton.
Definitely a very kool way to share stuff you find on FriendFeed around the interwebs as well as pretty easy to execute.
Here is another example...with a picture I had posted on FriendFeed. As you can see not only do you get the picture embeded but you get the likes and comments and you can even posts a comment right in the embedded item that will show up for all to see! Very kool. I think I will keep playing with this and see what different ways I can come up with to rock the house with this functionality.
Filtering FriendFeed = Becoming a FriendFeed Ninja
One of the awesome new features of the FriendFeed beta is the ability to filter information from your streams pulling what you want and more importantly what you may not want.
Bwana one of my fellow FriendFeeders and general geek put together a great post and video about the new filters (as well as highlighting some of the other new features).
Check it out and learn some kool new ways to use what I think is the best service out there!
[from Bwana: FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta]
After checking out the video and chatting with some of my fellow users of FriendFeed I am having a great time pulling tons of great content off of FriendFeed and getting the most out of the service. I have been geeking out adding filters all morning
On a side note if you are on FriendFeed already there is also a room devoted entirely to filters called FF Filters so check that out for all kinds of discussion and updates.
Enhancing The New FriendFeed Beta With Greasemonkey
My fellow FriendFeed'er Rasheen put up a blog post on ways to make the new FriendFeed beta work for you and included were a couple of greasemonkey scripts you can use to change the look, add a few features, and customize what you see.
Below are the scripts that were featured. Of course the first thing you need to do is install greasemonkey if you have not already and if you have any questions feel free to contact me and we can see what we can do.
Cleaner FriendFeed [Widescreen] [Regular]
* Cleaner and cool look and feel (FriendFeed is already clean, this makes it a lot cleaner)
* Different font style
* Highlights friends comments with baby yellow (instantly know that the user is already your friend)
* Highlights your comments with baby blue (it’s cool to see your own comments from river of comments. Looks good when you are a distance away your computer, makes your comment a marker in conversations)
* Highlights Likes to light pink
* Dims comments from non-friends (normal color of FriendFeed comment)
* Separated each posts with a bottom border
This userstyle brings the FriendFeed conversation to another level by instantly letting you know…
1) Your own comment (Powder Blue)
2) Your friends comments (Light Yellow)
3) Your non-friends comments (Normal FriendFeed Comment Color)
4) Likes (Light Pink)
FriendFeed Beta Service Icons [Script]
Adds service icons to the Friend Feed beta site using the API (only works on public entries)
FFlite [Script]
You can take on the real-time feeds without being constantly updated with a barrage of updates as other FriendFeed users participate with comments and likes on the feed.
before
after
FriendFeed Twitter Tweaker [Script]
Tweak the way Twitter entries are displayed on FriendFeed
1) For Twitter entries, appends the username of the Twitter user after the "N minutes ago from Twitter" message in the entry metadata
2) Helps you track Twitter users not on FriendFeed:
- Create a feed (formerly known as a Room) that includes the text 'twitter-friends' anywhere in the name (e.g. "kshep-twitter-friends")
- Add the Twitter feed from each user you'd like to track. You can add as many users as you'd like.
- When an entry appears in this feed, the name of the feed will be replaced by the username of the Twitter user who created each entry.
So there ya go. Hope you find the scripts useful and if you come across anymore for FriendFeed or any kool greasemonkey scripts you wanna share please feel free as I am always on the lookout for more.
The FriendFeed Team Discusses The FriendFeed Beta
Unless you have been under a rock somewhere you probably have seen on the blogs, twitter, or FriendFeed itself about the new beta version of the service that adds some new features and brings FriendFeed to real time all the time.
Robert Scoble had a chance last week before the changes hit the FriendFeed beta site to record a discussion with the FriendFeed team and others about the process, the changes, and so on. Below are the 4 videos taken by Scoble so check them out and get a little insight as well.
Thanks Robert!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
FriendFeed : They Like Me!!! April Edition
Ok so it is that time again to post up who according to the FriendFeed stats likes me the most of all my friends on the service. I like to do this to show you who maybe you might want to follow on FriendFeed if you are looking to add some people who might have similar interests or are just damn kool! hehe
There you have it.
New FriendFeed Design Coming This Monday!
One of my most favorite services in this galaxy and the star wars galaxy is FriendFeed and last night thanks to Zee and The Next Web I have learned that there will be a new design coming to beta.friendfeed.com! How kool is that!! plus I have the whole day off so it will be a day of checking it out for sure.
Some extra details I have found out this morning is the change will go up on the beta site at 9am pacific time so 11am central and noon on the east coast and that Robert Scoble has a really nice quality video of the whole press conference which will be kool to see. While we are on the subject of scoble here is what he had to say about the changes coming on FriendFeed last night.
So needless to say I am stoked about seeing what the changes will be and cannot wait till monday morning!!
Monkeying Around With FriendFeed
Last week I wrote a post about using greasemonkey to enhance twitter and thought hey why not do the same for FriendFeed since I do that same there as well.
Below is a list of scripts I use to add extra funtionality to FriendFeed through greasemonkey. So do you have any scripts you use? Would love to hear about them and share with other readers.
Endless Scrolling
Endless scrolling for friendfeed user pages. If you scroll down on a friendfeed page and the page includes these page 1 2 3... links, this script will automaticaly load the content of these pages and appends it to the site. jQuery supported.
FriendFeed Profile
Adds a profile section on FF user pages. Retrieves Twitter and LinkedIn info if available. Allows customization of which fields to display by editing the script and setting the variables. Supports multiple of same service (ie. two twitter accounts).
Cleaner FriendFeed V2
* Cleaner and cool look and feel (FriendFeed is already clean, this makes it a lot cleaner)
* Different font style
* Highlights friends comments with baby yellow (instantly know that the user is already your friend)
* Highlights your comments with baby blue (it’s cool to see your own comments from river of comments. Looks good when you are a distance away your computer, makes your comment a marker in conversations)
* Highlights Likes to light pink
* Dims comments from non-friends (normal color of FriendFeed comment)
* Separated each posts with a bottom border
This userstyle brings the FriendFeed conversation to another level by instantly letting you know…
1) Your own comment (Powder Blue)
2) Your friends comments (Light Yellow)
3) Your non-friends comments (Normal FriendFeed Comment Color)
4) Likes (Light Pink)
So there ya go. Hope you find something to help enhance your FriendFeeding...see you in the streams!
Who Finds Me Interesting On FriendFeed – Feb 2009 Edition
Every month I like to highlight those who find me the most interesting on FriendFeed to share with others who is finding my stuff the most interesting and therefore if you find me interesting you might find these people interesting as well. Just my little way of giving back.
Twestival – FriendFeed Style
Are you a FriendFeed user? Are you wanting to follow all the going's on with the twestival event on Feb 12th around the world? Then you should check out the FriendFeed Twestival Room.
This is a prime example of how you can use FriendFeed to create niche subjects on pretty much any subject.
FriendFeed : Some Thoughts On The Service
If you have been following my blog or twitter for any amount of time then you know I have a love affair with the service FriendFeed and that I am always getting excited over a new feature or posting something up on the service which then turns around and puts it up on my other social services I use like twitter or facebook.
I know talking to others at meetups and such I find people who are interested in FriendFeed or think it is to much to follow so they are kinda on the fence when it comes to the service.
Recently two people I follow on the interweb and most likely you do as well have talked about why they use FriendFeed or even more why you should.
Thomas Hawk posted "10 Reasons Why You Should Sigh Up FriendFeed" which included the ease of signing up, better exposure for your work, as well as it lets you get rid of your RSS reader.
Robert Scoble also put his two cents in on the idea of how great FriendFeed is by posting "Things I've learned by clicking "like" 15,301 times" which included likes are searchable, meta data, and he is getting to know his followers more intimately.
For me these were two great posts that I can pull ideas from when talking about what I find interesting when it comes to FriendFeed and why it has become a HUGE part of my daily internet usage. So check those stories out and feel free to comment your thoughts on FriendFeed...what you like about it and what you dont like about it.
Bring Your Twitter Friends To FriendFeed
FriendFeed added a kool new option that allows you to bring your Twitter friends over to your FriendFeed stream with a few simple clicks.
The friend importer for twitter basically takes your twitter user name (no password needed) finds who out there is also on FriendFeed and lets you add all those users to a current list or create a new one. Once you have done that you are ready to follow those new friends feeds.
Pretty simple but also a great way to add to your FriendFeed addiction hehe
Side Note - I added 629 new people to my FriendFeed using the importer so pretty sweet!!
Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed (Jan 2009)
Its that time again where I share with everyone who based on my FriendFeed stats finds me the most interesting. I do this for those who follow me on the interweb to help them maybe find some kool new people to check out either on FriendFeed or somewhere else on the interweb.
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Your FriendFeed Savior
Are you tired of seeing post after post about Governor Palin? Don’t have an iPhone, don’t want an iPhone, and don’t want to read about iPhones? You’re in luck, FriendFeed Savior is here to save you from all the drivel on the web that you just don’t care about. And just in case your curiosity gets the best of you, there’s a handy link to show you what you missed. And yes, it works on Friendfeed Real-Time as well.
Bjorn Stromberg is the creator of the greasemonkey script FriendFeed Savior and he also has instruction on how to edit the keywords in the script.
I know this will be a script that many in the FriendFeed community will find useful to block certain keywords. Enjoy!
What SUP FriendFeed?
Found a great way to get your blog posts hitting the FriendFeed service in record time using the services Simple Update Protocol or SUP!
SUP (Simple Update Protocol) is a simple and compact "ping feed" that web services can produce in order to alert the consumers of their feeds when a feed has been updated. This reduces update latency and improves efficiency by eliminating the need for frequent polling.
I initially found out about this from Josh Haley, a WordPress plugin (WP-SUP), as well as a little video put together by Benjamin Golub.
known issue : apparently there is an issue if you use Feedburner where it is stripping the tags that are added by the plugin..so just so you know that.
Ok with that said I am gonna give the SUP a try with this post. If all works right it should post right away to FriendFeed. 3, 2, 1.....
People Who Find Me Interesting On FriendFeed – Dec 2008 Edition
So its that time again...I have started a little monthly tradition of listing those on FriendFeed who find me interesting and in return helping you maybe find some other kool people to follow. So check out the new list.
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