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Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed [Take Two]

Last month I posted the list of those on FriendFeed that found me the most interesting. It has been about a month and figured I would post the new results. If you get a chance and do not follow one of the people listed check them out they are all great and that is not only because the follow me...hehe

People who find you interesting
	Mike Fruchter
	Morton Fox
	Sarah Perez
	Franklin Pettit
	Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
	AJ Batac
	Tim Hoeck
	Phil Glockner
	Yolanda
	Susan Beebe

Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed

Every now and then you will see someone has posted a list of people on FriendFeed they follow and find interesting...well I thought why not take my FriendFeed stats and produce a list of some people who find me interesting for a change.  So if you find my posts on FriendFeed interesting and like following me you might give a look to some of these fellow users as they seem to like my stuff as well

	Mike Fruchter
	Sarah Perez
	AJ Batac ♘
	Franklin Pettit
	Mladen Srdić
	Susan Beebe
	Tim Hoeck
	Phil Glockner
	Dobromir Hadzhiev
	Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Who are some of the people on your list? Leave a comment and share. Help others find kool new content/users out there.

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.

Tidy Up With Cleaner FriendFeed

I have been using FriendFeed since it opened its doors to everyone a few months back and it has slowly climbed to the top of my list of services I use sometimes almost by the minute up there with gmail and google reader.

Besides all the great features that have been slowly rolled out by the FriendFeed gang there has also been a great many scripts and addons that have enhanced the experience.  Everything from rooms and embedded mp3 files to scripts that allow you to add readburner right on friendfeed and others that let you send twitter messages right from the service as well.

This morning I found a nice script called Cleaner FriendFeed which you guessed it cleans up the interface a little bit and adds a few features to your pages.

* Cleaner and cool look and feel
* Different font style
* Highlights friends comments with baby yellow
* Highlights your comments with baby blue
* Replaced FriendFeed logo with FriendFeed Favicon
* Derived from Better FriendFeed

As with most scripts or add-on's it is pretty easy to install all you need is either Stylish for Firefox loaded or you can use a greasemonkey script.  Once installed you just have to refresh or reboot and you should see you new style in action!  I for one love the look you get from Cleaner FriendFeed.  Below is a before screen shot and then an after shot so you can kinda see what the differences are.  Go out and grab it, hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

before

After

FriendFeed Is About Friends

So I am using my Jedi Mind Skills (aka FriendFeed Stats) to see who I find the most interesting based on my habits on FriendFeed and in turn who finds me the most interesting.  I thought I would share my findings after deep meditation (aka looking at the stats page) and maybe everyone can share who finds them the most interesting or who you yourself find the most interesting based on your stats.

People I find most interesting according to FriendFeed
Corvida
Louis Gray
Benjamin Golub
J. Phil
Caleb Elston
Sarah Perez
Hutch Carpenter
Steve Rubel
Bret Taylor
Christa C.

People who find me most interesting according to FriendFeed
Sarah Perez
Corvida
Benjamin Golub
D e f c o n
Franklin Petit
J. Phil
Mike Reynolds
Anthony Farrier
Mike Fruchter
Hutch Carpenter

So there you have it....just some stats on me thanks for friendfeed.  so who are you finding the most interesting?  who is finding you the most interesting?  please share and maybe we can all discover some kool new people to follow.