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FriendFeedHolic room on FriendFeed… Join us!

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We just created a room for FriendFeedHolic(s) on FriendFeed.

Please come and join us!

We’d like to meet our community and get your ideas about FFholic.com.

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/friendfeedholic

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September 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm

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With love from our community: FFholic Toolbar!

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Today, we received a Google Groups invitation mail titled as “FFholic Toolbar“. I was surprised and didn’t have a clue about it.

Then, I checked FriendFeed about the buzz going on about FFholic. I saw this entry shared by Zafer Gurel.

This is a toolbar for Firefox and helps FFholic users to search for users/entries and also get the list of most liked/commented entries with one click. As useful as Google Toolbar.

FFholic Team and I were really surprised and so happy to get the help of our community.

Zafer Gurel, the creator of FFholic Toolbar, is the co-founder of a Turkish software company called Advancity. They are specialized in e-learning solutions and develop LMS and online meeting software for the corporates.

Zafer is also the creator of the great screen capture and recording Firefox addon CaptureFox. You have to check out his company website and also the Mozilla profile.

Thank you for this useful toolbar and your help to grow FFholic! We love the Web 2.0 community and really appreciate your help!

If you want to give FFholic Toolbar a try, just go to Mozilla page of the addon and have FFholic right on your browser for all times.

Written by FFholic Team

September 19, 2008 at 10:58 am

Who follows who?

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There is a new feature on FFholic (aka FriendFeedHolic) to see a user’s subscribers.

As you all know, FriendFeed doesn’t show a user’s subscribers but only the subscriptions. If you really want to know who subscribed to whose feed then here you go, FFholic has this feature.

Example:

Case: You want to know who is subscribed to Kevin Rose.

Solution: Just check out Kevin Rose’s FFholic profile. You will see the link titled “5139 public active subscribers“. If you follow the link you’ll get the list of his followers sorted by popularity.

We found this feature really useful, and hope you like it, too.

We have such a long list of feature ideas but we need to know what you really want to have. So, please share your ideas and request your desired features to have on FFholic!

Written by FFholic Team

September 18, 2008 at 10:40 am

Most popular user doesn’t mean the most active user

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We just added a new feature to FFholic (aka FriendFeedHolic) to track the most active users on FriendFeed.

We calculate an activity point for each FriendFeed user and create the most active users list.

A user’s activity point is the sum of all of his/her comments, likes and entries (published in the last 30 days) multiplied by the point value of each.

Point value of each activity is as follows:

Comments: 4 points (If written to an entry other than yours)
Likes: 1 point
FriendFeed originated entries: 4 points
Other entries: 1 point

Notes:

  • Point calculation formula may be changed to better reflect user activity. Please share your ideas to improve our formula.
  • Your comment, entry and like counts may not be exactly the same as those on FriendFeed.

So as you can see on the last 30 days’ most active users list, most popular users are not usually the most active users.

For example Robert Scoble; he is the most popular user with his total number of subscribers, but he is the 74th most active user depending on his activity point.

Also, Michael Arrington; he is the second most popular user on FriendFeed but it seems like he is not an active FriendFeed contributor. He is the 1534th most active user on FriendFeed.

But when we check Mona N, she is the 52th most popular user on FriendFeed, but also the 3rd most active user.

You can check out the most active users list here.

Written by FFholic Team

September 18, 2008 at 10:12 am

Search most liked entries by keyword

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We just added a new feature to FFholic (aka FriendFeedHolic) which lets FriendFeed users search most liked entries by keyword.

Example:

Most liked FriendFeed entries about:

As you see, it is now easier to follow the buzz in the social media about anything.

We will be adding some filters to our entry search in the following days like “filter by time” and “sort by most commented”.

Written by FFholic Team

September 18, 2008 at 9:48 am