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bentrem shared an idea in Seesmic on April 06, 2009 22:01:

"Filtering" ... the way LiveJournal allows users to group Friends.

#RFE.twhirl

The public face of my LJ friends list is a very full channle, viz http://hfx-ben.livejournal.com/friends.
What isn't public is the set of filtered groups I can view, each with their own ULR e.g. http://hfx-ben.livejournal.com/friend....

In reply to @splorp's "We need to build a filtered channel solution" what came to mind was not yet.another hashtag service but, rather, a way to segregate Tweeters I follow.

Some are social; ome are geeks, viz http://twitter.com/itgeek ... but there is a small number of categories.

So: by feeding data to the Twhirl back-end e.g. @splorp is geek, @pistachio is marketing, @benlucier is social I could a) view the entire stream, as I do now, or b) select an individual group, as though filtering by hashtag.

cheers
--bentrem

p.s. this, I think, would cut into TweetDeck's turf

bentrem reported a problem in Big Think on March 07, 2009 18:38:

A record was created, but the idea does not exist.

John Temple Searches for Innovation appears in a couple of listings, the obvious places, but actually doesn't exist, viz.: "Content for this idea was not found. It could be being created right now."

Under "Ideas by John" it appears as this: "John Temple posted an Idea at 5:37pm on March 6, 2009" ... which is almost 24hrs ago ... so it probably isn't "being created right now".

cheers

bentrem replied on March 01, 2009 00:10 to the question "how can i integrate my soup.io flow into my website (without blowing everything up)?" in Soup:

@dennyhalim That's what I do at http://soup.groundplane.org ... but the point of this thread is to integrate that stuff into other pages in a site.

bentrem marked one of Satjot S Sawhney's replies in buzzable as useful. Satjot S Sawhney replied to the problem "And Buzzable is good for ...".

A comment on the problem "And Buzzable is good for ..." in buzzable:

Uhh ... ok. Sort of like what you'd get if you could subscribe to a hashtag?
Actually huh huh now that I think of it, there was buzz about a groups function months back. Ok, thanks! --bentrem – bentrem, on February 28, 2009 01:33

bentrem reported a problem in buzzable on February 27, 2009 21:54:

And Buzzable is good for ...

As I tweeted to @corbett3000 just now (He announced his Gov20 group) I just don't get it. I get most things. I don't get Buzzable. *sigh*

A comment on the question "how can i integrate my soup.io flow into my website (without blowing everything up)?" in Soup:

@Flights - I noticed something broken in FireFox; slightly smoosched in IE, but scrunched in FF. Your "Blogs I Visit" is below in IE, but to the right and about 8PX wide in FF.
http://bentrem.sycks.net/images/soup_... and /soup_broken.jpg

The IFrame looks fine. – bentrem, on February 26, 2009 05:28

A comment on the question "how can i integrate my soup.io flow into my website (without blowing everything up)?" in Soup:

Yaa huh huh ... to this old timer comments is what makes a blog a blog.

The right side-bar?! OMG that integration is so smooth I never even noticed it! Haaa ... evidently it worked real well! :-)
p.s. http://soup.groundplane.org is what I want to make use of – bentrem, on February 26, 2009 05:19

A comment on the question "how can i integrate my soup.io flow into my website (without blowing everything up)?" in Soup:

Nice post ... too bad registration is required for comment. (Odd way to run a blog, no?) But say: why no demonstration page? Is nobody doing it actually? Or did I just miss the link? – bentrem, on February 25, 2009 04:25

A comment on the question "how can i integrate my soup.io flow into my website (without blowing everything up)?" in Soup:

@denny - I don't think this is just a Firefox thing: the IFrame is far too narrow for comfortable reading ... I can't imagine what would make it so it looked good for you.

On another hand (I have thousands! **grin*) the problem I encounter with that sort of widget is that they don't target externally e.g. I clicked on the LJ icon (I'm there as "gnodal") but had the whole LJ page load in the frame ... which, of course, is far from optimal.

cheers / HNY – bentrem, on January 03, 2009 20:28

bentrem replied on December 22, 2008 17:10 to the question "How do I know if I friended someone just now, or un-friended them?" in Soup:

Yes, it's one of those little things that's very obvious /after/ you know how it works.
:-)

Good luck on the UI.

best of the season to everyone there

bentrem asked a question in Kyte on December 20, 2008 09:12:

paging through 14,000 results 5 per page ...

14K channels, and you list them 5 per page? You've been asleep a looooong time. C'mon ... who has used this and not realized 5/page is dumb. C'mon ... really.

bentrem replied on December 19, 2008 18:17 to the question "How do I know if I friended someone just now, or un-friended them?" in Soup:

Oh, I believe that the list is reliable.
But you missed my point.
In Twitter there are Followers, and there are folk I Follow. Clearly different.
Here, I saw only Friends ...
... so didn't know if that list was Followers or folk I Followed. See what I mean?

thanks

bentrem replied on December 18, 2008 23:58 to the question "How do I know if I friended someone just now, or un-friended them?" in Soup:

huh huh :-)
When I see it bright green, then I think I should click it!
When I see if faded / pale, I think I have already clicked it.

I see "Friends" at the top of my page.
I do not know for certain that this is people I have Friended, or people who have Friended me.
You see?

But I see it now: I clicked the green, and the fellow disappeared, so now it is clear!

thanks

bentrem asked a question in Soup on December 18, 2008 01:49:

How do I know if I friended someone just now, or un-friended them?

It's very nice, the way the icon dulls and brightens ... but which is which? The tooltip in both cases says, "Add/Remove".

A person friended me. So they're in my list of friends.
I tried to add them as my friend.
Did I succeed?
I really don't know.

bentrem replied on December 04, 2008 16:40 to the idea "Add Ability to move Applications into Right Column" in LinkedIn:

Thanks for the FaceBook heads up on your suggestion here, Mitchell. I wasn't aware that LinkedIn had a GS site.

@Adam: if LinkedIn wasn't so important the site wouldn't frustrate me as it does. ;-)

cheers

bentrem replied on December 02, 2008 03:08 to the problem "Failure to post" in Soup:

p.s. as evidence of how well you've created this service: I found the failed attempt in my Firefox History and, without re-visiting the original page, carried on with the post.
And succeeded.
see http://soup.groundplane.org/post/8297...

Let me guess: this validates REST as a robust methodology?
:-)

regards

bentrem marked one of Andreas Fuchs' replies in Soup as useful. Andreas Fuchs replied to the problem "Failure to post".

bentrem replied on December 02, 2008 03:03 to the problem "Failure to post" in Soup:

Oh, hey, Andreas, don't be so hard on yourself.

In this instance you took heh something under 2 hours to respond!!

FWIW my biggest motive in reporting it was to help de-bug ...
... no complaints here!

continued success
ben

bentrem reported a problem in Soup on December 02, 2008 01:34:

Failure to post

Eeew! I think this is the first time my Soup bookmarklet has failed me.

I regularly post to http://soup.groundplane.org ... maybe not real often, but regularly.
Just now I tried to grab a snippet from an RWW article and got your very reasonable alert:
"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

Our trusty debug robot just sent e-mail telling us about this problem. If you can give us further details about what happened, please write to us on our feedback page!"

Sooo, here I am.

No sign what's wrong ... the post form is behaving very normally ... not a clue.

But I know I got a "Help us improve" email earlier ...
... you tweaking things under the hood?

cheers
--bentrem