“Sharing or resharing equals liking. Friendfeed should take this into account when counting 'Likes'. All 'Likes' should be aggregated under the first entry that carries a 'Like' and refers to a certain url”
Yes! Link posts should merge in one thread. More posts of the same link should count as likes. This would also merge different conversations about the same link into one :) I would rate it a #1 priority. Let's lobby for this! - Alexandros Georgiadis
in the same sense, twitter maybe should consider "merging" favorites and retweets (I never use favorites btw) - George Tziralis
via Peter Suber; pullquote: "There's a lot of research that gets 'done' but doesn't become 'real', because it isn't submitted for publication. One common reason for this is that there's a lot of research that in some sense fails to find anything. More specifically, what is found isn't far from the 'null hypothesis' that there is no interesting relationship between the variables measured, or no effect of the experimental manipulation. [...] There should be a web-based Open Access Journal of Null Results." - Bill Hooker
"Discovering that the null hypothesis holds in some specific case is not the same thing as discovering nothing". Very true, but I suspect that there are many who'd argue that it is effectively the same (in terms of "interest") and some who can't distinguish the two cases. - Neil Saunders
There are some journals for "negative results". And an increasing number of online sharing-type resources. - Maxine
Interesting idea. But how to detect when someone click a link? Javascript event? There will be a lot of data to store if you wanna keep track of this for each user. - Jesper Lind
That is done by the browser. Same thing if you are using 2 different PCs. - fredbvalani
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@Jesper Click can be detected by javascript. The "visited" flag will have to be stored in database to work across different machines. And yes, it's a lot of data - but no more than "hide" or "like" flags that already exist. - andrei_c
True, that's just another bool. Would be useful to have this feature. - Jesper Lind
I'm not fond of putting 'my feed' on my blog, but I'd like to put a feed of the threads I've liked or commented on. Seems less self-promotional. I realise this is feature for a very small number of the userbase. - Cains
"Some of the most iconic photographs of Teddy Roosevelt, one of the first conservationists in American politics, show the president posing companionably with the prizes of his trophy hunts. An elephant felled in Africa in 1909 points its tusks skyward; a Cape buffalo, crowned with horns in the shape of a handlebar mustache, slumps in a Kenyan swamp. In North America, he stalked deer, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep and elk, which he called "lordly game" for their majestic antlers. What's remarkable about these photographs is not that they depict a hunter who was also naturalist John Muir's staunchest political ally. It's that just 100 years after his expeditions, many of the kind of magnificent trophies he routinely captured are becoming rare." - Anna Haro
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Elk still range across parts of North America, but every hunting season brings a greater challenge to find the sought-after bull with a towering spread of antlers. Africa and Asia still have elephants, but Roosevelt would have regarded most of them as freaks, because they don't have tusks. Researchers describe what's happening as none other than the selection process that Darwin made famous: the fittest of a species survive to reproduce and pass along their traits to succeeding generations, while the traits of the unfit gradually disappear. Selective hunting—picking out individuals with the best horns or antlers, or the largest piece of hide—works in reverse: the evolutionary loser is not the small and defenseless, but the biggest and best-equipped to win mates or fend off attackers. - Anna Haro
When hunting is severe enough to outstrip other threats to survival, the unsought, middling individuals make out better than the alpha animals, and the species changes. "Survival of the fittest" is still the rule, but the "fit" begin to look unlike what you might expect. And looks aren't the only things changing: behavior adapts too, from how hunted animals act to how they reproduce. There's nothing wrong with a species getting molded over time by new kinds of risk. But some experts believe problems arise when these changes make no evolutionary sense. - Anna Haro
So true. Predatory animals will hunt the weakest and oldest, leaving the strongest to live. Hunters always kill the best looking animals, screwing up the balance of the population. - Raoul Pop
"Cuba has opened up electronic access to thousands of documents belonging to the writer Ernest Hemingway, who wrote some of his greatest works on the island. The archive includes photographs, letters and manuscripts, as well as an unpublished epilogue to Hemingway's novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls." - Anna Haro
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I am aware he loved Cuba and some of his greatest work was written while there. But I am surprised his works will be displayed there and not here. So many fans, his place of birth and his home for so long. - Adriana
"Iuridictum je monothematická internetová encyklopedie o právu, založená v září 2005. Píše se zde o všem, co s právem souvisí, Iuridictum obsahuje jak výklady obecné, tak informace se zvláštním zaměřením na situaci v České republice, u kterých však vzhledem k přetrvávající legislativní smršti není zaručena aktuálnost. Každý je tu vítán a každý může, vedle získávání informací, psát vlastní články nebo editovat stávající, bude-li dodržovat zdejší pravidla. Protože cílem serveru je kvalita a odbornost publikovaných textů, může se stát, že některým přispěvatelům bude taktně dáno na srozuměnou, že jejich činnost serveru právě neprospívá. "Politickým zřízením" Iuridicta totiž není demokracie, ale osvícená diktatura. Přesto věříme, že se vám tu bude líbit a najdete tu informace, které není snadné získat jinde. " - Daniel Mietchen
I hope you were all sending IMs to each other. - Shawn Farner
no shawn - they were all on friendfeed liking each other's stuff :) btw what mac laptop is the woman in the middle btw the two guys using? looks small - Allen Stern
1) Nobody was using IM. 2) At one point, my brother asked us to play a Monopoly game online (much faster than the board game) and 3) the MacBook being used in the middle is one of the new 13.3" models, while we have the 15.2" Pro versions. - Louis Gray
It's true. All of my offspring are Macfans. What you grow up with is important. - Phil Boiarski
okay .. I don't know about anyone else but this is frikken scary (in a good funny kind of way (I think)) ... LOL - Steven Hodson
Heck, other than the apple logos, looks like my living room on a typical afternoon -- wife, stepdaughter and I all bathed in the light of our laptop screens . . . I guess we aren't as weird as we thought! 8-) - LJF Wolffe
we play boardgames around christmas - right low tech - Joelle Nebbe
If smart is genetic, being a Mac-fan must be :P - ·[▪_▪]·
Anyone's free hand occupied with an iPod / iPhone, too? - Jason Kaneshiro
Same as my family. All got mac laptops. a couple of mac mini's and g4 cubes around too :) - Simon Wicks
True, Jason... not pictured would include my mother's Mac desktop and laptop, my wife's laptop, my iPhone, my sister's iPhone, and a small variety of iPods also in the house. - Louis Gray
Cult of Gray. But I say it's nurture not nature. :) - Josh Haley
You can't win against it. You can free yourself from it. There is hope. - Ryo
But are they all running Windows Vistas on those Macs? ;) - Jemm
love it! amazing... you guys do like your Macs ...I guess :) hehehee! - Susan Beebe
Funny! That's exactly what my brother's house looked like for a couple of hours after Christmas dinner. Well, except that he has a Mac and I don't. :-( - Lisa L. Seifert
Love the pic. Looks like our house- more variety on the mac front iBook, MBP, mini - Elliot Christenson
"Envy Arrows"? WORST PRON NAME EVER. - Steven Perez
Not that I condone or encourage this, but could there surely be a adult entertainment side of Friendfeed developing? - Josh Chandler
Two quick clicks to ignore the rooms in question, so I don't see a real issue. It's not as if they can subscribe you to rooms without your permission... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I am thinking there will be a phishing attack on Friendfeed soon, which will involve masking these links. Could be interesting! - Josh Chandler
Josh, it will be much harder to Phish on FriendFeed - if they opt to use the API to do so like those on Twitter are doing, FriendFeed uses an API Key to control such behavior and would cut it off at the source. FF is much smarter than Twitter in this. - Jesse Stay
Surely a limit can be set on invites per day that is higher than normal people want and way lower than spammers want. (I haven't been invited to these rooms, thankfully.) - Bruce Lewis
But surely Jesse this key could be manipulated? - Josh Chandler
you can change your remote key, which unfortunately would lock out all third-party services you use that have your remote key. What's missing is a report from FF listing who is using your remote-key, a contact web site, and what they did while making API calls with it. This way, you can more easily visit those sites that have it when you change it and track down abusers. - Andy Bakun
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I'd like to see sites a slightly more robust remote key implementation, that will let you designate, on the FF site, which remote sites you want to use your remote key, so they both need to have the remote key and you need to authorize them. it could default to open to allow anyone with the remote key, but make it easy to restrict if problems arise. - Andy Bakun
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They look like commercials to me. Does friendfeed allow commercial use? - Peter
Peter, they can't be commericials they are room invites! - Josh Chandler
This is spam since you don't know the person and the content is so questionable. They are spamming people with invites. We will look into it. - Bret Taylor
Josh, of course, but FriendFeed has the capability to shut off the app immediately because the app requires a key to use the API. This is the problem with the Twitter API - anyone, no API key needed, can use it. - Jesse Stay
commercials, invites for commercial rooms, what's the difference? - Peter
And there was me suggesting a Twitter App store would help control the spammers! - Josh Chandler
And, twitter _encourages_ handing out your password, the same password that can change your password and email address, to third-parties. The twitter ecosystem grew up around this. - Andy Bakun
And does therefore the Twitter system die by this flaw? - Josh Chandler
Josh, that's the idea - with OAuth, Twitter would have to divvy out API keys to developers. Ideally that would involve some sort of manual process. - Jesse Stay
Or an automated process that is auditable. - Andy Bakun
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I vote for an early shutdown of these sort of things on FF - things get wrecked very quickly and nobody needs this - Richard Filing
Many countries and ISPs block any domain containing "adult content" and many would consider that type of invitation either SPAM or PORN related. I know StumbleUpon allows it but has a rating system so that some can block what they find offensive. If FF allows borderline porn a rating system would be the minimum we need. Do we really want to go there? - Internet Strategist
WizFolio is a web based productivity tool for managing all types of information and provides the user with a great ease-of-use experience. Researchers will improve their research efficiency using WizFolio to gather, organize and generate citations in their writings. Other users will find that using WizFolio for managing and sharing information, pictures and videos to be far superior to any other web based applications. WizFolio is Web 2.0 at its best! - Casey Chan
Casey Chan - Do you have a relationship to the company behind WizFolio? The paragraph you posted sounds a lot like a marketing blurb. I guess I'd like to know when someone advertising a service has a relationship to the service in question. EDIT: Okay, I see you're the cofounder... - Michael Nielsen
Marketing is a reality and scientists who disdain it are not realists - BioJobBlog
I agree that marketing is important and, when done well, can be both valuable to the companies that are doing the marketing, and also valuable (or at least not detrimental) to the community as a whole. However, I doubt that the paragraph posted above by Casey Chan was particularly effective or beneficial for anyone involved. I guess it does have the benefit that it at least tells you roughly what the product does, buried beneath all the buzzwords. - Michael Nielsen
Just got spam from WizFolio; even had the classic fishing-for-live-addresses "To unsubscribe, reply to this email with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line" at the bottom. Welcome to my killfile, guys. - Bill Hooker
Bill - Yeah, I got spam from them a few weeks ago, too. Classy. - Michael Nielsen
Hi Bill and Michael, we are not "fishing for live addresses". We honour all unsubscribe requests and we do hope that you will try out WizFolio as a reference management tool. We believe that you will find WizAdd very useful to collect bibliographic data, videos and patents from webpages. - victor_lin
"A major piece in my note on Friday regarding FriendFeed was recommending topical summaries. How can I find out who the top folks are in sports, tech, news, you name it? Today, that’d be the search engine, but it looks like your thoughts are on the same lines." - Louis Gray
socialmedian.com seems like it does what you want! - Zach Landes
Socialmedian does a good job there, yes, Zach. It is a good piece of differentiation. - Louis Gray
Actually Louis, as soon as I joined social median it occurred to me that combining the deliciousness of its newsmakers and categories with friendfeed's beautiful simplicity and conversation engendering feed style would be the perfect site...but alas, I don't know how that could be accomplished. For now, I'll do my conversing on friendfeed and some supplementary article checking on socialmedian. - Zach Landes
Interesting idea. I wonder what the investment was/is going to be. Because, really, cable TV is not going to last. That's clear, isn't it? - WorldofHiglet
DRM doesn't matter until you want to buy a music player from someone other than Apple. Sure, nobody makes a music player that can compete with the iPod -- today. I don't expect that will be true the rest of my life. And all those people who subscribed to music services that went under and got screwed - they got screwed because the music on those services was DRMed. - Mitch Wagner
DRM sure does matter if I want to play anything bought from iTunes on my Squeezebox. Or use the tunes to DJ at club using Traktor. I find DRM very intrusive into my music listening habits. If Apple can kill it, iTMS just got a whole bunch more useful for me - they've got more content than most other stores. - Scot Mcphee
“Did somebody notice, that even the standard version of FF page updates "automagically"? what then is the difference between the standard page and realtime version of it?”
The real-time one shows the user's picture/icon? (which I wish was an option for browsing FF in general). - Andy Bakun
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When you are inactive, the main FriendFeed page will periodically update, but it is no where near "real time." The real-time view streams in as things are submitted, including streaming in new comments and "likes" separately. - Bret Taylor
Incidentally, one way to avoid automagic FF page updates is to use fftogo as your FriendFeed client instead. - Ontario Emperor
There is another way: Use the Flashblock extension in Firefox and don't click the flash object you see on the left sidebar. - April Russo
