3 Jul 2009

Friendfeed Brings "Best of Day" to Lists, Helps You Spot Trends from Friends

   
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One of my favorite Friendfeed features is called "Best of Day." I use it all the time to hone in on the most liked/commented conversations. If you're logged into Friendfeed, you can hit this link to see the most interesting conversations from your friends over the last 24 hours or this one for the past seven days. The problem with the feature, however, is that it only worked across all of your friends. This can be problematic if you follow hundreds of people, as I do.

Last night, however, Friendfeed quietly added a killer feature that brings "Best of Day" to lists - groupings of friends you categorize. Now you can more easily spot trends from friends. The screen grab below shows you the most interesting items over the last month just within my "favorites" list. This smart filtering of content plus the recent addition of real-time search on Friendfeed is exactly what those of us who participate in the social web need.

This incremental innovation gives me just another reason to be excited about Friendfeed. It's also why I love Gmail, Posterous and Evernote. They constantly keep innovating all the time even through the tough times.

25 Jun 2009

Google News Kills Commenting Feature

Remember the Google News commenting feature that worked by hand and at a snail's pace? It's gone. Try every link on this page. The help pages are 404 as well. The way they implemented it was poorly conceived to begin with. Thanks to @andrewfoote for the tip. 

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