Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
Monday’s news that Facebook acquired FriendFeed made a big splash in the (comparatively small) pool of FriendFeed users. According to the announcement, “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being.”... The announcement got me thinking about contingency planning. via casefoundation.org We use FriendFeed and other free web services at the Case Foundation. My post this week looks at contingency planning for using free web services. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that free and forever...
August, 12 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
In a move few FriendFeeders anticipated, Facebook bought FriendFeed today. Robert Scoble published an audio interview with one of FriendFeed's founders discussing the deal. There's been lots of stunned reaction on the FriendFeed site, with congratulations for the FriendFeed team mixed with concerns for the future of the FriendFeed service. The press release announcing the acquisition is not reassuring about the site's future beyond "the time being". FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the...
August, 10 2009 • 0 Comments • 1 Faves
FriendFeed provides a super API for getting access to posts and doing things like creating likes or comments. Those that don't require a login, search or display of posts, can be done in JavaScript. In my previous post I explained why I moved to using FriendFeed to handle my blog comments -- how hosting my blog on GitHub works for my git-based workflow. Here's how display the appropriate FriendFeed posts, using nothing but JavaScript. Here's what this code does: It shows all FriendFeed items that link...
May, 25 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
At the office, we use FriendFeed for sharing and discussing links. It’s great for that. There’s a bookmark that lets you share links and images with a click. And we use groups to keep discussions (somewhat) on-topic — especially for our top-secret internal discussions. Perhaps your office is like ours, however, in that Certain People are much more comfortable sharing links in email. With yesterday’s redesign of FriendFeed, even email addicts can use all of FriendFeed’s functionality — from their email inbox. Here’s...
April, 30 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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