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Andy DeSoto — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:13:11 -0000

Mona! I had to throw you in there somehow but wasn't sure how. I thought a little bit of random anchor text would do it.

(Next time I'll build you in a little more prominently, perhaps!)

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Mona Nomura — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:59:29 -0000

Andy, thank you kindly for including me :)
It's great to 'meet' you!

Regards,
Mona N.

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Andy DeSoto — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:40:14 -0000

Wayne: Glad to hear you're starting to get back in with FriendFeed! "Other-based" is just my pretentious way of referring to the "Best Of" function. If you go to the Friends tab, there's an option to see the best of the Day, Week, or Month right beneath the search box. This is a great way of culling the content to solely what's interested your friends.

Nikki: Thanks for the friending! It's definitely more complex using FF than some of the other services out there, but it also seems to bring with it a much more intellectual userbase and quality of discussion. Now, if only I were a better user myself!

TJ: Yeah, you're right. I used to love Socialthing! myself but the 2.0 update a while back sort of left me feeling empty. They're both very useful tools for the right circumstances...

Gregory: What a phenomenal analogy! The number of people that have announced that they're giving up RSS to embrace FF is growing day by day, I think. Glad you found the blog, drop by again, eh?

Kyle: Got it working now? Yeah, as soon as you get Twitter entirely (or at least non-'liked') out of there, it makes a big difference.

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Kyle James — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:27:28 -0000

That Hide feature is gold. I didn't know that I could hide a whole type, like twitter... I mean that's what twhirl is for and twitter quickly clutters up my FriendFeed RSS.

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gregorylent — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:30:21 -0000

i don't use rss feeds, it is too much, a shotgun instead of a rapier, and inconsistent quality. in friend feed, with its search, i can follow interests instead of sites, as well as people, and if i understand the person, it is a kind of filter on the information. i will go to, say, www.friendfeed.com/scobleizer, and follow the conversations around one of his themes. if someone says something interesting, i click and go into their world. that is how i got here.

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teejayhanton — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:46:06 -0000

My only issue with FF is friends. I have several other social sites I frequent and there's no easy way to import those friends ... I have to search for them or ask them to friend me on the other sites.

SocialThing is another great aggregator that just passes through your friend settings from each site. But, it doesn't have nearly the filtering capabilities that FriendFeed does. *sigh*

Somebody somewhere will eventually get it right.

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Nikki Backshall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:02:09 -0000

here
Nikki

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Wayne Smallman — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:15:10 -0000

I've been slowly warming to FriendFeed this past two weeks. I use it to catch up on what people have been up to.

BTW, I don't see any option for "other-based filtering". Where is that?

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Andy DeSoto — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:38:21 -0000

Thanks for reading and the FF friend! Drop by again, okay?

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Bill Sodeman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:51:35 -0000

Good article, Andy!