Comments on: Advanced FriendFeed Tip: The Imaginary Friend

By: Marysia

Marysia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:58:19 +0000

My apologies - I shouldn't jump the gun so much. Here is a tip from Justin, as a comment on his blog piece that you refer to: "FriendFeed now allows you to remove people (and imaginary friends) from your home feed if you wish. You can do so by going to your imaginary friend and then at the top, it says “Friend lists: Home feed (add/edit)” - Click add/edit and remove it from your home feed." http://blog.justinkorn.com/index.php/2008/07/fr...

By: Phil Glockner

Phil Glockner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:57:22 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

Keep in mind that only you can see your imaginary friends, and only when you
are logged in to FriendFeed. The public feed does not include anyone's
imaginary friends, just like other registered FriendFeed users can't see
your imaginary friends. There's an mportant reason for this. You are not
the producer of the feeds. Wisely, the creators of FriendFeed know the feed
creator may have their own opinion of if they want their feed syndicated on
FriendFeed or not.

Of course, this is easy to test.. simply add an invisible friend with a
recent entry to your account, log out of FriendFeed, and go to your public
feed. Your invisible friends shouldn't be there. (I just tested it
actually -- this is the way it works).

By: Marysia

Marysia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:14:44 +0000

When I read this and Justin Korn's blog piece, I thought the idea was great. But now that I've tried it IMO it's a bit stinky. Because if anyone went to my home page and clicked on “Marysia and Friends” they saw my Imaginary Friend's feed, and that definitely is not what I want! I've had to delete my subscription to my imaginary friend to make those feeds private again. A private room is definitely the way to go IMO.

By: Marysia

Marysia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:58:19 +0000

By: Phil Glockner

Phil Glockner — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:57:22 +0000

By: Marysia

Marysia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:14:44 +0000

By: Marysia

Marysia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:58:19 +0000

My apologies – I shouldn't jump the gun so much. Here is a tip from Justin, as a comment on his blog piece that you refer to: “FriendFeed now allows you to remove people (and imaginary friends) from your home feed if you wish. You can do so by going to your imaginary friend and then at the top, it says “Friend lists: Home feed (add/edit)” – Click add/edit and remove it from your home feed.” http://blog.justinkorn.com/ind...../fr…

By: J. Phil

J. Phil — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:57:22 +0000

By: Marysia

Marysia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:14:44 +0000

By: chris

chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:17:23 +0000

“It would be cool if you could have invisible friends feeding in to private rooms”…

I think you should get out more

By: J. Phil

J. Phil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:04:03 +0000

Thanks Justin.

By: justinkorn

justinkorn — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:41:50 +0000

J. All is good. Thanks for the credit and the encouragement! Great post too.

By: J. Phil

J. Phil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:03:28 +0000

Indeed, that's a great way to use rooms. I have several public rooms, and I try to make them unusual and a good resource for what they exist for.

By: philbaumann

philbaumann — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:59:07 +0000

You can also use the rooms feature to collaborate with others on a project.

For example: I recently collaborated to collect links for various feeds. So I set up a room for that, invited others to the room and let them be administrators as well. As links and other items were shared, we could vote (like) or comment on whether or not to include those links. By the project's end, we had one place for all of the feeds we settled on. Pretty much the same process as a typical FF discussion, but more focused and localized with a way to capture info.

Thanks for your tips.