The FriendFeed Community at Work
I am absolutely blown away right now by the FriendFeed community!
I started this blog on July 11, 2 weeks ago today, because J. Phil from [scribkin] encouraged me to do so when I suggested my use of FriendFeed as an RSS Reader/Organizer on FriendFeed. Well, since I set up the blog, I had been struggling to get the FriendFeed plugin to work. I finally went to Google and found a plea for help on how to set up the same plugin on Chris Brogan’s blog. I read through the comments, but was unable to find my cure.
So, I turned to FriendFeed and Hao Chen came to the rescue. We chatted for about 2 hours on GTalk trying to debug my stubborn plugin together. Finally, Hao came to the simple conclusion that cURL was disabled in my php.ini file! I knew it was something simple, but I would never have figured it out without a second pair of eyes.
Anywho, my point is, and I have said this many times before, FriendFeed is what you make of it and EVERYONE has the opportunity to make SOMETHING of it. If you have a similar story, I would love to here. Please let me know in the comments.
Here are a handful of FriendFeeders that have made made a difference to me personally (whether they know it or not) and I think everyone should follow: Hao Chen, J. Phil, Louis Gray, Thomas Hawk
Hao has also written a few GreaseMonkey scripts for FriendFeed. If you use FireFox, I strongly encourage you to check them out!
Thank you FriendFeed!
Till next time…
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Special thanks to Hao Chen! Hao you are the man!
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Hao does rock
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Yeah he does!
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You're welcome :) I'm glad I got a chance to finally tinker with Glenn Slaven's (http://friendfeed.com/dalziel) Friendfeed Comments Wordpress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/friendfeed-comments/). Awesome blog, Justin. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks again Hao!
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Good job with the plugin Justin and Hao. You probably already know this, but Glen is a user here at FF (http://friendfeed.com/dalziel).
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Good work Hao! I think I'll put that in as one of the troubleshooting tips in the plugin.
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Glen - Yeah, that would be a good idea. I was unable to find any information about that anywhere. Great plug-in by the way!
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I'm working on a native OS X Friendfeed app, it may take me a while to get something I'm willing to show people though. Cool plugin though, thanks for making it. :)
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Justin, couldn’t agree with you more, FriendFeed is really something special. It feels like a real community, people reaching out to help, share ideas and converse- wow actually converse! Glad you you’re here.
Great Post!
Hao is awesome, as are the rest of the guys.
You can follow me at http://friendfeed.com/jonbrown
Totally agree justin - narrowing it down to just one example would be tough because the reality is that I learn something valuable from the FriendFeed community almost every day.
Hao has also agreed to let me pick his brain on some things - I obviously don’t know him well but I have been very impressed by his level of knowledge and contribution to the FF community - I’ll make this prediction that you can hold me to: we haven’t seen a fraction of what he can or will do - dude’s an up-and-comer in my book.
marco
Thanks for all the positive notes on this post. FriendFeed really is a unique place and I look forward to seeing it thrive.
See you all on FriendFeed 
Now the final step to get you completely indoctrinated into the FriendFeed commune would be for you to install Disqus. Or Intense Debate. But one of them…
J. Phil - I have been debating about installing one of those commenting platforms and will definitely consider it.
Thanks.
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Hao ROCKS!
…as does everyone else on FF
It’s the most humbling place ever
Congratulations on getting it to work