The most boring site on the planet, FriendFeed has a new
beta redesign, which is still mighty sucky, but it has added the most important feature in the history of social networks, Fake Following, which TechCrunch
describes as a "seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they're following their friends without actually getting their updates." More like this, please.
8/25/08
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10 Reasons I Love FriendFeed: FriendFeed is my social aggregator of choice. It’s mine. I love it. I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant. http://friendfeed.com/markwilson. Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time on FriendFeed.
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productivity: quoting merlin mann. welcome back, friend. per what i wrote in your yearbook back in june, i hope you had a nice summer and stayed sweet and cool. you look great. did you lose weight or something? somewhere along the way over the past
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Ephemeratic: Just another post full of random thoughts and links. So once again, I don't necessarily have enough to put into a "proper" entry, but I have lots of random thoughts and links I've been collecting over the last few weeks.
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artificial attention: friendfeed’s new “fake following,” a feature that allows you to appear as someone’s friend without actually recieving updates from them, has gotten a bit of attention from merlin mann, jason kottke, who calls it “a little bit genius,”
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Zero-price Markets in everything: "Fake following": Jason Kottke reports:. This is a little bit genius. One of the new features of FriendFeed (a Twitter-like thingie) is "fake following". That means you can friend someone but you don't see their updates. That way, it appears that you're
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Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button: Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people:. That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying
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I actually installed movable type to get that functionality, only to find that the MT activity stream doesn't play nice with, e.g., tumblr. But so you can strip the chrome off the FF badge, and aside from some clunky wording, it can look decent.
Not to mention it can port to my facebook home page, thus putting it in front of the eyeballs of what few people might actually care about it.
"fake following" : are we really applauding a fresh new way to use the internet to be a little more weaselly? Isn't this just postponing the in-person awkward?
are we really applauding a fresh new way to use the internet to be a little more weaselly?
No, we're fighting weaselly with weaselly.