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By: GNC-2008-08-26 #402 Live from Great State of Texas | Geek News Central

GNC-2008-08-26 #402 Live from Great State of Texas | Geek News Central — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:31:11 +0000

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By: OneDollarGeek.com - » Blog Archive » The Meaning Of Friendship

OneDollarGeek.com - » Blog Archive » The Meaning Of Friendship — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:03:06 +0000

[...] follow” back in August so that you can just pretend to follow those people. Friendfeed now has a feature which allows just [...]

By: Låtsasvänner på Friendfeed? | Bloggtidningen

Låtsasvänner på Friendfeed? | Bloggtidningen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:25:39 +0000

[...] Techcrunch är en sådan funktion i beta på Friendfeed men Nina har inte lyckats hitta den (och är glad för det) och jag ser inte heller något [...]

By: ninanord

ninanord — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:23:43 +0000

Stupidest feature in the history of sosial web!

By: The Meaning Of Friendship

The Meaning Of Friendship — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:44:56 +0000

[...] follow” back in August so that you can just pretend to follow those people. Friendfeed now has a feature which allows just [...]

By: Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button - Untrue Media

Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button - Untrue Media — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:05:33 +0000

[...] Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” [...]

By: Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button | rob-thompson.com

Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button | rob-thompson.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:53:19 +0000

[...] Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” [...]

By: Daar heb je vrienden voor… | Attuworld Nederland

Daar heb je vrienden voor… | Attuworld Nederland — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:19:13 +0000

[...] introduceert de Fake Fellow. Fijn voor op het sociale web: wanneer iemand je vriendje wil worden, maar jij eigenlijk niet het [...]

By: This so-called Larger Conversation

This so-called Larger Conversation — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:19:15 +0000

[...] I could share the link on a traditional social network, but none of my college friends are interested in seeing that kind of tech-related clutter in their feeds. In fact, most social networking web apps are plagued by this kind of noise. [...]

By: Productivity

Productivity — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:53:15 +0000

[...] Mann | Aug 26 2008 Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means [...]

By: Technotheory.com - ”Fake Following” to avoid information overload in social networks

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:26:07 +0000

[...] FriendFeed’s “Fake Following” does something similar. It allows you to simply not receive updates from some of your connections. [...]

By: La validez de FriendFeed como herramienta de trabajo

La validez de FriendFeed como herramienta de trabajo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:02:56 +0000

[...] dio a conocer algunas novedades de la nueva versión que está preparando. Incluso está testando una versión beta poco antes de hacerla pública. [...]

By: FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets

FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:57 +0000

[...] new features come only two days after FriendFeed rolled out support for photos and Friends List which have enabled the “Fake [...]

By: FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets

FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:57 +0000

[...] new features come only two days after FriendFeed rolled out support for photos and Friends List which have enabled the “Fake [...]

By: Jacob Bijani

Jacob Bijani — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:22:50 +0000

http://friendfe...t/faq#imaginary

By: Denny

Denny — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:11:44 +0000

LiveJournal has offered custom friend groups and ‘default views’ (a filtered view of posts by the people you _really_ want to follow, instead of everyone on your ‘friend’ list) for several years now – these concepts are not being invented by Facebook, Twitter, etc – they’re all playing catch-up still. The LJ friend-list and post-filtering set-up is incredibly versatile compared to every single other social networking site I’ve used.

That said, a single friends list is a poor way to manage the two very different relationships ‘people I trust to read my friends-only posts’ and ‘people whose posts I want to read’. That’s why the DreamWidth project is currently rewriting the LJ code to separate these concepts into ‘trust’ and ‘follow’ lists instead – which will put them even further ahead of the poor granularity and half-arsed implementations offered by sites such as Facebook.

LiveJournal has been around for so long that tech journalists and bloggers seem to have forgotten that it exists, let alone that it solved half of these problems years before the current ‘cool’ sites even realised they existed. Maybe DreamWidth will catch some of that ‘new, therefore shiny’ wave when it launches, and we’ll see some of their good ideas incorporated into the other social-networking sites over time.

By: adrianhall.com » Fake follows

adrianhall.com » Fake follows — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:45:25 +0000

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By: Geek And Poke

Geek And Poke — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:49:03 +0000

Fake Followers…

FriendFeed now has fake followers (see TechCrunch). Download fakefollowers.comicdoc…

By: SEM News: SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 26, 2008 - Search Engine Marketing

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:14:08 +0000

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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:01:52 +0000

[...] *Social Media: Everybody loves FriendFeed’s new Fake Follow. I would also like an algorithm that left innocuous, ambiguous (and seemingly relevant) comments on friends’ items at irregular intervals. [techcrunch] [...]

By: Brauch ich FriendFeed und Twitter? Oder Facebook? Oder alles? » zweipunktnull

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:54:37 +0000

[...] sie dort bereits Features bieten, die selbst FriendFeed noch nicht auf dem Zettel hatte und die nun implementiert werden. So kann man jetzt – endlich möchte man sagen – bei FriendFeed eigene Listen anlegen, [...]

By: Gregory

Gregory — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:23 +0000

What’s next? Fake friends for those that feel they don’t have enough friends on your service?

Very weak of FriendFeed. This is trying to fix the broken social model of your software with gaffer tape and rubber bands.

By: Das Hömmel » Blog Archiv » What the F…? - Taking Social Networking to the next Level

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:43:05 +0000

[...] the most important feature in the history of social networks, Fake Following, which TechCrunch describes as a “seemingly unintuitive feature that allows users to look like they’re following [...]

By: links for 2008-08-26 « The Little One

links for 2008-08-26 « The Little One — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:32:29 +0000

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By: John Poisson

John Poisson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:29:28 +0000

Social not-working. Boring.

Nothing speaks more to the one-sidedness of these services than this feature. Now I can ~pretend to follow you and you’d have no real way of knowing that I’m faking, because conversation hardly factors into it.

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