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FriendFeed Adds New Services, Ignores Sphinn, So I Guess We Yell

Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 11:46 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.friendfeed.com)
Category: Networking

Good news -- now you can have your activity on Intense Debate, brightkite.com, Diigo, Mister Wong, and tipjoy as part of your FriendFeed. Bad news. Despite asking twice and being told FriendFeed is just too busy, Sphinn still hasn't been added.

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from dannysullivan 122 days ago #

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Just to give more of the backstory, when FriendFeed launched back in October, I asked for Sphinn to be added. Nothing happened, so I asked again in April (FriendFeed ahd nicely asked me to remind them, and I figured that was enough time for the dust to settle). I was told they were working on new features, services and mainly an API. Now it's two months later -- more services get added, and we're still not. We have nearly 20,000 register members here, tons of commenting and submitting activity, and I'd like to see my own damn activity here in my FriendFeed there. So on the squeaky wheel model, if you're with me, start squeaking that we should get added. And yep, I'll get FF (and Plurk) added to the social media profiles you can list here on Sphinn.

from theGypsy 122 days ago #

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Well that's a drag as I use a FriendFeed widget on my iGoogle homepage to monitor a lot of activity.... though my reader with Sphinn in it sits along side of it (see here; http://tinyurl.com/66a3sf ) -- I also have created SEM, Learn SEO and SphinnZone rooms on there - so I have been utilizing FF a fair bit.... ;0(

I would be happy about the FF and Plurk additions and was thinking about it the other day - thnx fer that!

from erik 122 days ago #

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Danny, you can add your Sphinn activity to FF by importing it as your "blog." Importing a Sphinn feed like http://sphinn.com/rss/user/dannysullivan/voted will show everything on FF that the Sphinn feed shows. As Sphinn's feed capabilities grow, so will the Sphinn presence on FF. (Not exactly addressing your point of being ignored, but it is a partial workaround.)

from Eavesy 122 days ago #

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We need to get it on popurls and jimmyr.com as well.

from JohnWeb 122 days ago #

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erik, that does not work. FF trunctuates the url to http://sphinn.com.

from erik 122 days ago #

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JohnWeb, it worked for me. I imported that exact feed and it showed me as having posted all of the links on Danny's feed under my FriendFeed account. (I immediately deleted it.) It truncates all blog links down to the TLD for display purposes, but it's pulling content from any valid RSS URL as long as the file has the {link} attribute inside.

See http://friendfeed.com/users/935d92d8-37f1-11dd-b8fd-00304865cd52

I made you an "imaginary friend" of mine (no offense; I believe you are real) and this feed shows the Sphinn activity from your feed.

from JohnWeb 122 days ago #

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thanks erik, I checked again and it only "apears" to trunctuate the URL when you go to edit it, however the actual feed is stored.

Now sphinn gets a nice link on my friendfeed page (the little orange rss image) on http://friendfeed.com/johnweb

Unfortunatly it doesn't look like the actual feeds have been updated in quite some time. bummer.