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Tech, Life, & Stuff…

A Blog by Franklin Pettit

June 2, 2008

Who is in your FriendFeed Zone?

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : FriendFeed

Who is in your friendfeed zone? Check out this link. Your friendfeed zone is:
“This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers – so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people [...]


May 27, 2008

Is An IFrame Integration?

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

What constitutes real integration and what is just silly? Integration to provide additional functionality is great. But my question is that really being done. The following are 3 examples using 3 different methods of so called integration all using iframes.

Readburner recently released an update that combines Google Reader into the ReadBurner site. [...]


May 9, 2008

Scoble’s FriendFeed Party Video with Louis Gray

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : FriendFeed, Video

The following is a video from Robert Scoble at a FriendFeed Party at FriendFeed headquarters. The video is taken by Scoble with Louis Gray identifying the people around the room. It is entertaining. Check it out.


May 1, 2008

FriendFeed Apps

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : FriendFeed, Hacks, greasemonkey

Loving FriendFeed Apps and the greasemonkey scripts that are being produced. If you are a FriendFeed user this site is a must. I am currently using:

“Tabs – add custom FriendFeed tabs and never leave the site again!”
“Show Domains – displays the domain name of all shared links”
“TinyURL Resolver – enables one-click instant inline [...]


April 25, 2008

FriendFeed Noise Solutions

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Comments, Feeds, FriendFeed, RSS

I read a post today titled “Proposal to Clean Up the FriendFeed Clutter” by Hutch Carpenter. It clearly outlines some of the noise problems with FriendFeed.
I have seen the need for change to the FriendFeed stream for weeks now. The problem in a nutshell is that the same link appears over and over [...]


April 14, 2008

Comments Floating in the Blogosphere

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

Comments here,
Comments there,
Comments posted everywhere.
Comments here,
Comments there,
Comments floating in the blogosphere.
The blogosphere is a buzz. The conversation is about comments. I wrote the other day about “the FriendFeed disjointed comments problem.” My post was pointing out how FriendFeed could help move the conversation back to the original blog.
Conversation is taking place outside [...]


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I coined this blog "Tech, Life, & Stuff" for lack of a better description. This blog is primarily about my view on tech from South Carolina. I am a South Carolina software developer. More>

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