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Inappropriate?Hey Howard,
What sort of FriendFeed integration do you picture? Flock already combines your social networks, so adding FriendFeed seems a bit superfluous to me.
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FriendFeed has become a network in and of itself. Lot's of people now post directly in FriendFeed. With the addition of FriendFeed Rooms, it is now even more valuable, since you can setup a room that is private to a group. It's excellent for team discussions. Without Flock adding FriendFeed (with rooms support), then I'll have to have some other client displaying my FriendFeed social data. Which seems to defeat the purpose of Flock. -
I agree. I have groups in friendfeed which I'd like to follow through flock. -
Inappropriate?Um i think we schoid add friendfeed so we can share the site that we're visting sorta like facebook but without the apps
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Inappropriate?I see Friendfeed more as an aggregator of all my online social network activity - a single RSS feed is available to my friends regarding what I have done where. Facebook is catching up now in terms of this with many new services it will follow, but Friendfeed still has a far broader services base that it follows. So I would understand Friendfeed integration more as a single view of all my friends' activities across the different services. Right now on Flock we see that on a per service / social network basis.
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Great post, Danie! I *think* what I hear you saying is that you want a single view of all your friends activities across different services...it doesn't need to be FriendFeed doing this necessarily. Would you agree with that?
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Thinking of FriendFeed as just an aggregator is just wrong. Sure it's a great aggregrator, but it is everything Twitter is and more. Many top social media users now use FriendFeed as their primary post site. The comments and likes give it a richness that is missing in other sites. And as I said in my first post, FriendFeed Rooms create an entirely new class of activity. You can't be serious about having a social browser and continue to ignore FriendFeed. -
Inappropriate?Thanks Evan, yes I agree it does not have to be FriendFeed but Flock would need to achieve the following:
1. A way of aggregating a friend's activity across various services. Flock does cover many popular services already but remember the friend will very likely not be a Flock user. FriendFeed does this by allowing you to create an imaginary friend and then add various services to that friend by specifying their user names on the services. This will give you an overview of that person's activities across various accounts. FriendFeed has 59 services listed.
2. Publishing or making an RSS feed available of own activity - we should be able to have this as an option. Then any other friend can subscribe to our feed and get an aggregated view. Flock already knows what services we are subscribed to so this would be the easiest to achieve but bear in mind this type of aggregation must obtain the updates directly from those services (even if I'm uploading via my mobile device to say Flickr) to be truly effective.
I am wondering then based on the above whether all this belongs within Flock as a browser? Maybe it may be worth thinking about integrating FriendFeed into Flock as an account - Flock would offer the functionality of reading the virtual feeds (imaginary friends) from FriendFeed and displaying them on a "My World" type page view within Flock. Or on the FriendFeed account view it would display a list of all your FriendFeed imaginary friends and you could click on each one to get the view of activity.
Alternatively Flock would have to go through a process of allowing us to link our friends from each service within Flock to each other. In other words it checks all my friends on Flickr and asks me to match them up with the same friend where they appear in the other services. This may be a bit tricky in terms of user setup.
See also my comment elsewhere on this site regarding pushing single status updates out from Flock. This may also be a big plus as far as aggregation goes and a quicker win. FriendFeed type functionality was more of a pull type service for aggregation.
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Inappropriate?True it is more than just an aggregator and I think we all use it slightly differently depending on where our main social network activities are. Point is FriendFeed itself does give you control over whether and what you want to aggregate or want to push out. In my own case I found FF pushed too much to Twitter so I rather push via Ping.FM but its not a problem as I can decide where I want to do what.
Its maybe a question of just how we would like to see FF integrated into Flock - what functionality do we want to see working with FF inside Flock and what views should we see? What value would Flock offer as a browser working with FF insted of us just going directly to the FF site?
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Inappropriate?If Flock doesn't take on Friendfeed as a native feature, is it going to (a) encourage using a Firefox plugin, or (b) encourage moving more content over to Firefox?
I've just discovered the MySocial 24x7 plugin for Firefox at http://mysocial247.com/ . Sarah Perez reports it's "under new management" at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/... .
I haven't installed this sidebar yet ... I prefer async feeds via Feed Demon ... but am watching this. -
Inappropriate?Friendfeed is only %60 RSS aggregation. There's much more than that. It even deserves its own button and sidebar I'd say.
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Inappropriate?I use FriendFeed because I have yet to experience a character limitation...
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Inappropriate?i realllllllly want this
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Inappropriate?Can the FF bookmarklet be used in Flock to share text and images?
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Hey JECO,
I imagine it can be, it should work the same as in Firefox.
Evan Hamilton
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Inappropriate?thanks for your time Evan.
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