“Friend Feed” week seems to be continuing at IDT. But don’t worry, there’s a team of trained attack Bonobo monkeys prepared to take me into a dark alley and beat me up and make me suffer if I don’t stop talking about Friend Feed. What can I say? This is what it looks like when a web app gets people excited. I’ve put together two more Greasemonkey scripts to add features I want in Friend Feed.
- How to use Greasemonkey
- Script: Remove Visited Links
- Script: Twitter Client
- All of my Friend Feed scripts
How to Install Greasemonkey Scripts
- You need the Firefox web browser - Download and install
- You need to install Greasemonkey - How-To
- How to install a Greasemonkey script - How-To
Script: Remove Visited Links
One of the biggest problems with Friend Feed is the signal to noise ratio. Most of the web services it supports are for sharing links, and I keep seeing the same link percolating as different people share them. Wouldn’t it be great if it didn’t display links you’ve already looked at?
Before
After
Yes, it will hide the comments/likes for links you’ve already visited. What’s nice is that it uses Friend Feed’s built-in Hide feature. So it will remember to hide links even if you use Friend Feed from more than one computer.
Install Remove Visited Links
- Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links
- Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)
Script: Twitter Enhancements
Yesterday I noted that about 50% of the traffic on Friend Feed is from Twitter. I think Friend Feed makes for a great Twitter client because of the way it handles threaded conversations. There’s a few things missing from Friend Feed though:
- The 140 character count
- Why doesn’t it automatically check the “reply on Twitter” box?
- Why can’t I send a Tweet from Friend Feed?
Twitter Reply Enhancements
If you respond to a tweet, you’ll always send it by Twitter as well as Friend Feed.
Click to Send a Tweet
Clicking ‘tweet’ will open this box
You can send Tweets directly from Friend Feed!
Username / Password
You will be asked for your username / password after installing the script. Greasemonkey stores your user/password combination in your web browser. If you need to reset your password click on the Tools menu in Firefox.
Shameless Promotion
Because I am a shameless media whore the first time you run the script it will send this message. This is how I test that you’ve entered the correct username/password. You should never see this tweet again unless you are changing your username / password very often.
Install Twitter Client
- Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client
- Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)
My Other Friend Feed Greasemonkey Scripts
The scripts are packaged separately instead of being one massive script so that you can choose want you want to use.
- Click here to install Pagerization
- Click here to install Friend Feed Pagerization Fixer (needs Pagerization, description)
- Pick one of these two scripts:
- Click here to install Friend Feed Reshare Links (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Even More Expander (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client (description)
- Click here to install Friend Feed By Service (description)
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10 Comments
Oh sure pick on me :) .. nice work and if I used Firefox I’d be grabbing both scripts before they were all gone.
Howdy - thats great.
Thanks for this !
Wow - you are awesome. Can’t wait to try this!
Hey great job on these scripts! If you want more friendfeed related topics, then look @ http://disqus.com for a blog Commenting system that ties into the system there.
@ n8k99:
Yup, I use Disqus for my tumblr blogs. The one thing I hate about it though is I’d rather keep my comments stored in my blogging software. My experience with Haloscan years ago taught me that comment portability is a pain in the ass when the service you’re using starts to go wonky.
I can certainly understand that, especially if you’ve been biten once before. So far, it happens to be the most interesting service that ties in, even more exciting to me than twitter threading!
This is on Digg now if people want to vote:
http://digg.com/software/FriendFeed_Twitter_Client_and_Remove_Visited_Links
Hey,
Nice post. I think friendfeed works well its because of its threaded conversation feature which gives a way to healthy conversation.
Blessings
Matt Haller
hi
thanks for the nice scripts.
i installed all ur 3 scripts in FF3 beta 4 and the cursor keeps blinking in all the tabs :(
by the way, can u make a script so that i don’t see my own activity in friendfeed “friends” view? it is strange why i have 2 c my own activity.
Thanks again
@ ரவிசங்கர்:
FF3 beta does not play nicely with most extensions. Nothing I can do about it :(
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