The bookmarking system on FriendFeed
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The bookmarking system I am referring to is liking something on FriendFeed. Liking an item not only serves as an encouraging vote for the content author, but it also serves as a great bookmarking tool.
In addition, the liking feature performs as a:
- Presence system
- Bookmarking system
- Recognition system
The river of content flows fast and furiously on FriendFeed. Often, I will miss friends’ postings because of this. The like feature has become a necessary bookmarking tool to keep track of everything. The like system on FriendFeed serves the same purpose as a bookmarking service. It allows you to archive and access stored data for consumption at a later point in time. Using the like system as a bookmarker, will considerably help you keep track of your friends’ updates.
For the new people on FriendFeed who don’t quite know their way around. You can access your likes and comment history on the right side of your feed under your selected services.
Your FriendFeed liking history also can be read via rss. At the very bottom of your FriendFeed likes page, you will see an rss icon. Simply copy that link into Google reader and access it anytime.
Your rss feed will look like this: http://friendfeed.com/fruchter/likes?format=atom
Replace fruchter with your user name. If you follow me on FriendFeed, feel free to add my likes feed into your Google Reader. FriendFeed gives you an rss option for just about everything you do on the site. It’s a great way to get the best of your FriendFeed in Google Reader.
The “liking” feature also functions as an indicator of who is online. It is sort of a FriendFeed presence system. This is the best method for me, to gauge who is active at any given time on FriendFeed. In this river, you need to stand out. Consistent liking and contributing will get your name out there. The more I see your name, the more I take notice. Expect me to visit your feed and like bookmark things of interest.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, you can view only your last 900 likes….
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.
Yuvi, you might be able to view more than 900 if you keep it in Google Reader?
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
I think you could use this script too, as a bookmarking system: Read Later for FF http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24734
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.
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.
Well, you can view only your last 900 likes….
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.
Yuvi, you might be able to view more than 900 if you keep it in Google Reader?
I think you could use this script too, as a bookmarking system: Read Later for FF http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24734
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.