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My A,B,C’s of FriendFeed

Started by mfruchter · 9 months ago

Now that I have my established lists, the task of organizing begins. With several hundred subscriptions, the keyword is bulk management. FriendFeed allows you to bulk add friends to a desired list. However, it does not allow you to bulk remove friends off your primary home feed. This task is t ... Continue reading »

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  • Mark Trapp

    9 months ago

    Mike, with your separate A, B, and C pages, how often do you find yourself checking out the lower tiers? I have a somewhat similar setup, but I find myself essentially fake following the people outside the top tier.
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  • mfruchter

    9 months ago

    Mark,with lists now I can check up on those people with a little more frequency. I check the lower tier lists about 3-5 times a day. My interaction is a lot lower, compared to page A. It basically equates to controlled fake following as you mentioned. List creation is forcing me/us to almost look at every members feed with a magnifying glass for proper categorization. This gives fake following a whole new dimension.
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  • rebkin

    9 months ago

    This is extremely cool. I was meaning to ask how you did with the lists. As I said in an earlier comment; I feel that I'm missing out on a lot of good stuff by NOT having them sorted up...and, mind you, I have very few compared to you. Thank you for sharing this... I'll take time out and do this very soon and I think I'll get greatly rewarded..
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  • mfruchter

    9 months ago

    Rebkin, thank you. Lists will definitely give you a whole new view of FriendFeed. Spend a few mins of your day sorting through your subscriptions and organizing them. It's definitely worth the reward.
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  • Justin Korn

    9 months ago

    Mike, yet another great post and thanks for sharing your organization method. I have started to dip into organizing my FreiendFeed subscriptions into list as well, but find that keeping EVERYONE on the home page is still useful for the "flood." Also, with keeping everyone in the home fed, I don't need to organize every last person in a list.

    Tagging would be great and I'm guessing/hoping the Friendfeed team is working on it.
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  • mfruchter

    9 months ago

    Justin, Thank you. I'm still wrangling with what I will use the home feed for. If I do use the home feed, I want a clean slate. This is another reason why I'm doing away with it for the time being. It's a time consuming process building these blocks, but so far proving to be effective.
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  • Scott P.

    9 months ago

    I eventually found that my key RSS feeds failed to update and the FF widget was too limited so I defected to Lifestream.fm which supports more services and has a better widget.
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  • weblivz

    9 months ago

    I tried doing a 1-9 system for bloglines... it works for a while.

    You know the problem, you can subscribe to someone who posts a REALLY good post in every 10 - perhaps with the other 9 being random stuff which gets in the way.

    It IS very hard IMHO and perhaps even more in FF due to the dynamics of a lifestream/microblog.

    I love ALL my friends in twitter, ff, bloglines, but i honestly don't always have time to check how their cat is doing after the operation and getting through that level of information - even when speedreading - can be VERY hard.
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  • Shevonne

    9 months ago

    Wow, I need to update my lists. =)
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