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Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:48:48 -0000

Thanks! Glad the article still holds up for the most part, it's been a few months since I wrote it!

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

James — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:42:17 -0000

Excellent advice on how to give and receive value at FriendFeed. Someone who I strongly believe will find this interesting is Ed Dale, the creator of the Thirty Day Challenge. Ed has something like 14,000 followers on Twitter. He has youtube videos about FriendFeed, but this post is way more informative and useful. Sorry Ed, but I do love the Thirty Day Challenge.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:54:03 -0000

Glad you found my 15-minutes-of-internet-fame!

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Mona Nomura — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:19:45 -0000

-bookmarked-

;)

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:17:46 -0000

It would be an extremely short book! But thanks. :)

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Mike Fruchter — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:19:34 -0000

This should be a published book on Amazon, I would buy it. Great writeup!

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:25:58 -0000

Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked the post, have fun on FriendFeed!

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Czar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:56:35 -0000

Excellent blog post regarding Friendfeed and how to rock-it. Not until twitter started acting up (few weeks ago) did friendfeed make it's into my browsing habit. Join rooms and subscribe to people that like what you like. In a little time the stream is customized to you (wow, everyone likes what I like? Interesting,..).

Regards, Derek < http://friendfeed.com/czarp... >

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Baard Hansen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:07:37 -0000

Great article. Thanks!

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:49:20 -0000

Definitely, I agree that following does not need to be reflexive, and perhaps shouldn't be. I personally do follow people who follow me, but ultimately for lazy reasons: It's easier to do that than go back and figure out who I am following and who I'm not of my followers.

My challenge to you (and the reader) is, is it easy to identify a serial-follower who is following a self-promoting strategy on friendfeed? Because, if it is not easy, that works to your advantage if you just happen to be one of these people (which is the stance I took writing this article).

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:41:57 -0000

I was a sysop too! Actually, BBSs were what kept me sane in high school, to be completely honest.

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jigarme — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:03:30 -0000

Nice Dedication!
Keep it up.. Friendfeed rocks!

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cosmictap — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:40:10 -0000

Great tips, and I love the BBS parallel; I was a sysop back in the day, and miss that scene in many ways.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:09 -0000

I completely agree with you, Ryan.. in theory. But let me ask you a question: How do you determine if someone on FriendFeed is following 'everyone'?

If you visit a friendfeed user's page, sure, it lists the top people they are following, as well as a numerical count of the other people they are following. But how many is too many? 50? 100? 1000?

Friendfeed does not expose how many people are following a certain user. So, unlike twitter, this doesn't really give you a good relative sense of what they are doing.

The best you can do is combine the number of people someone is following with the number of comments and likes they have made, to get a rough idea of how 'busy' they are. You can definitely build a criteria or guideline based on this information.

But that still doesn't prevent someone from following you and, consequently, being able to follow the people you are following as they post new entries.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:12:52 -0000

An additional note about self-filtering: When it comes to FriendFeed, I am inclined to recommend against self-filtering. You want to avoid double-posting if possible, but otherwise, I think FriendFeed is in desperate need of some new niche content -- it's too much about the echo chamber right now, unfortunately.

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Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:30:37 -0000

Robert, have you heard of Penelope Trunk, writer of the Brazen Careerist? Her book is pretty insightful when it comes to work history and resumes. Basically, the really important part is highlighting your accomplishments. It doesn't matter if they happened while you were working for X company or Y company. Just keep hitting milestones and listing them on your resume.

Amazon: The Brazen Careerist

Of course, if you did absolutely nothing for 5 years, well.. yeah.. that's not good.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:28:00 -0000

Appreciate it, yeah, try as I might, I can't write a cotton-candy article like a lot of the popular top list articles on Digg. I really want to because it means cheap, easy popularity with a minimum of effort -- something I can really get behind!

But whenever I try, this sort of thing happens. I actually write solid content. BOO-RING. Heh

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:25:32 -0000

Definitely, Julia, and thanks! I haven't had time to read your article full, but it does look interesting.. and thorough!

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Phil Glockner — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:24:49 -0000

Yeah, I actually put this in hack #5, I was debating the best place to bring it up, but this is very important if you want to get eyes on your stuff. I wish FriendFeed would grab the first picture in the article like Digg does, though, when it is syndicating a feed post.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Anthony Farrior — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:52:01 -0000

I was surprised, this post isn't bad at all :). The difference with FF is that we WANT to read your blog, It's the opposite with Digg. Actually I only befriend people who produce original content... Great post!

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Julia Ault — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:18:07 -0000

This post is very timely for me as it chimes totally with one of my recent blog posts on http://ffynnonweb.com (From Bulletin Boards to the IRC) exploring online communication and how much has changed, but how the basic principle remains the same. I have likened online social networks like those on Ning.com to the old MSN Communities of which I was a member and I think your comparison of bulletin boards with Friendfeed strikes much the same chord.
I shall highlight this post on my blog now If I may (and add you to my blogroll of course!)

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

davemc500hats — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:40:07 -0000

one other very important addition to hack #4:

include graphics

makes a world of difference... people are visual, and they click on images.

Re: The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Robert Seidman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:04:26 -0000

Great post, J. Phil. I think you're definitely right about several feeds and perhaps especially Linked-in being necessary as people don't have a good way of figuring out who you are. I didn't add my Linked In primarily because not having worked most of the last 5+ years I wasn't feeling the need to be linked in... I left many feeds off like Delicious because they focus entirely on the television industry and I didn't think the tech early adopter crowd would be into it. I add dozens of stories daily sometimes (it's also a link list on our site). But it's easy enough for others to hide I suppose.

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directeur — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:45:56 -0000

Really nice one. What I liked most is that it's not "tricky", and by tricky I mean full with so-called tips to sell something. You talk about help, and real share and I like this! :)

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StevenHodson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:04:05 -0000

Been a very long time since I've seen that :)