Friend Feed Scripts: Unsubscribe, Who Are You and Better By Service

Web Browser Tips & Tricks

It’s another week which means I have more Friend Feed scripts to share with you all.

How to Install Greasemonkey Scripts

Friend Feed Easy Unsubscribe

One of the biggest problems with Friend Feed is the signal to noise ratio. If someone is posting too much information (or repeating themselves by importing their tweets into Tumblr and then importing BOTH into Friend Feed) I’ll first try to unsubscribe from the services I don’t find interesting. If that doesn’t work, I’ll unsubscribe for the user. Unfortunately you have to dig deep down into the user settings to unsubscribe from someone.

I prefer having a link right on their user page so I can unsubscribe after looking at their latest entries to see if they’re sharing anything I find valuable.

Before

After

Install Easy Unsubscribe

Script: Friend Feed Who Are You?

Another problem people have with Friend Feed is figuring out just who the heck someone is and why they are following you (or why you are following them). Friend Feed doesn’t let users write their own profiles. This script does the next thing and shows you the all the profile names someone uses on the different services.

Usually that’s enough to remember how I know them.

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Who Are You? tucks away nicely when you aren’t using it.

(”no technology evening”? That’s crazy talk!)

Install Who Are You?

Script: Friend Feed By Service

I’ve made a substantial update to the first script I wrote for Friend Feed. It now automatically checks FF for new services once a day so you don’t have to wait for me to update the script when they add new services.

It displays service icons on the friends/everyone public timelines and on user pages.

Clicking on a service icon opens a menu that will let you hide/show that service.

Hiding/showing the service happens instantly without reloading the page. Hiding isn’t permanent like the real “hide service” feature. This means you can have two tabs open: one with tweets and one without tweets.

You can hide services from the URL. This means you can create two bookmarks, one for viewing Friend Feed with Twitter, one with viewing Friend Feed without Twitter. This lets me use Friend Feed as a Twitter Client in one tab, but use it to stay on top of other people’s shared stuff in another tab.

You can even create a bookmark that hides more than one service.

In the future I might add more options like permanently hiding/unhiding a service.

Install FF By Service

Even More Greasemonkey Scripts for Friend Feed

More Junk

Here’s a long list of similar stuff I’ve done for other blogging / social web app

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