Comments on: FriendFeed Doesn’t Care About Mona

By: FriendFeed

FriendFeed — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe we don’t like you either.

By: Aaron Krug

Aaron Krug — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice post, I always appreciate the CN point of view.

By: Mona N

Mona N — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen, thank you for the love :) I appreciate it.

But – frankly – It doesn’t matter if the creators of FriendFeed appreciate me or not. Everyone I interact with on a daily basis is what makes FriendFeed my ‘home’ ;) I’m here for the community and not for FriendFeed. Besides, I’d rather have people find me for the stuff I post, and not because I’m on some defaulted list. And more importantly, I don’t want a t-shirt ANYway (no offense, Louis!)

Btw, I can’t wait to meet you in a few weeks!! :)

ps my comment is not showing up, so I just copy and pasted what I wrote in FF, here. Sorry if it dupes :(

By: Majento

Majento — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

True, true, totally agreed on Mona, thanks for the post and vid.
I’d love to see alternative lists by: Location, Activity, Content Types (blog, visual, audio, micro etc), many ways to go about this feature. If FriendFeed recommend peeps they should at least make it more interesting.

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To clarify, I didn’t say I wanted to be removed from the defaults. I said I was flattered.

Also, your comments on being active vs. being popular don’t take into account that there are some of “the 24″ that are active. Robert Scoble and I are quite active, as are Steve Rubel, Jeremiah Owyang, Loic LeMeur and of course, the founders, Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit.

If I were to change it, I would trend toward those that are not just activity based, but those that encourage conversation. For example, I may follow you and engage on your items, but not some of the others here, which would push you up. I think Mona is a great example of a popular person who is engaged, and should at least be on the short list.

Assuming the 24 shows, I should be able to say “Not interested” to some people, and refresh to get new, or say “Show 24 more”, etc. Facebook, Rejaw and Plaxo do a good job here.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment Louis - I will update the post accordingly. I did note in the video that some of the 24 are active or semi-active. The founders should automatically be excluded from the default list. Same thing I told Daniel Ha on Disqus.

I would agree with you overall - let the user pick a topic and then show some random batch of people who meet x criteria.

If we continue to pimp the same few people, no one else will ever have a chance to shine.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

agree – i’d love to see a list of people say from London or Berlin.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Aaron – that means a lot to me. I am just trying to make people think – my mission is to help create better startups and web services.

By: Majento

Majento — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using this lovely script by Hao Chen:
Better FriendFeed “recommended”
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29324

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen, how are you getting the 24? I’m not able to get a default 24, only 9, and that’s if I don’t select Facebook or gmail contacts at first. When I select Facebook or gmail contacts it auto-populates the list based on my friends from Facebook or gmail, and is not a default list at all.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jesse – the 24 is on beta.friendfeed.com – the 9 is on the current site

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen, it’s doing the same for me on beta as well – only 9. Maybe they’re still experimenting with this on beta? On both, if you enter your Facebook or gmail friends the list is no longer default, too.

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jesse, did you reboot your computer three times and then delete your registry? That worked for me.

By: Mona N

Mona N — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

and don’t forget the .dll’s!

By: Mona N

Mona N — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…and I wanted to add (sorry for spamming your comments, Allen) that I can only speak for myself :) Over caffeinated typing FTL :|