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Rahsheen · 1 year ago

I really enjoyed this post. The Like feature is so simple that a lot of people miss the power of it.

One thing I'd like to add is that, if you'd like to take the Bookmarking nature of Like's a step further, you want the Read Later Greasemonkey script. It lives here: http://ffapps.com/readlater

kylelacy · 1 year ago

Rahsheen: Are you following me? lol Or maybe it is the other way around.
Great thoughts on the like feature! I am going to start using it as more of an organization tool than anything else.

timhoeck · 1 year ago

Great idea! Many times I forget to take advantage of the fact that you can access your friends likes. Think I will now go through all of my subscribers likes rss feeds into a Google Reader Group. On the same token, you can easily track your friends comments on FriendFeed in Google Reader as well doing the same thing.

nicefishfilms · 1 year ago

Geeze what a great tip! Find myself going back to my 'likes' and 'comments' just to find something again. RSS is the way to go, thank you.

kirtok · 1 year ago

Like feature is great. I wish they had a tag option. This way I'd tag the posts I like, and visit my archives of tags whenever I needed them (similar to delicious).

My main problem with friendfeed is it's addictive and kills my productivity :)

jeffisageek · 1 year ago

hey mike great post on using likes to find content and using rss with it. being a FF Fanatic I will be using this as well.

svartling · 1 year ago

Yes I use this all the time. You forgot to mention the search feature in friendfeed. It's very easy to search for your bookmarks (Likes) with the built in search.

Yuvi Panda · 1 year ago

Well, you can view only your last 900 likes....

felix · 1 year ago

I use the like feature the same way. :) My problem with it, though, is that it is public. Sometimes, I just want to grab something to investigate for later, or whatever and I don't want to publically like something. I started resharing into a private room for that. But it'd be nice if there was a different feature that would do that. Kind of like the difference between "star"ing and "share"ing in Google Reader.

timhoeck · 1 year ago

Yuvi, you might be able to view more than 900 if you keep it in Google Reader? ;)

marchino · 1 year ago

I think you could use this script too, as a bookmarking system: Read Later for FF http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24734

rebkin · 1 year ago

A heartfelt thank you for this post. Like you write «the river of content flows fast and furiously on FriendFeed», and even though I spend a lot of time there I miss a lot too.

I do hope people who are new to FriendFeed will read this post because it's really helpful and I wish I'd had something like this in the beginning :)

Michael Hocter · 1 year ago

I will occasionally, when I'm in a hurry, use a like as a kind of bookmark to read later, but mostly I use likes to show that I like something or want my subscribers to see it. I don't really trust friendfeed as a more permanent bookmarking system, so anything I want to find later will be posted to Diigo and tagged.

Chris Loft · 1 year ago

ahh . . . I wondered where I could find all my 'likes' . . . why didn't I think of looking there? Thanks for this info and for pointing out how to make an rss feed of this page.

mathewballard · 1 year ago

I think the Like feature is great to spread things you like around to others and to also make sure that good post don't get buried too quickly. But, as far as bookmarking goes I don't think it really is that great. When you start to get up to 6000 likes or 12000, etc it gets too hard to really go back and find something. Unless you know what you are searching for and can then just use the search feature in FF.