September 10, 2009
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August 14, 2009
Facebook acquires Friendfeed, now what?
Facebook has acquired Friendfeed. Some of you might be worried that Friendfeed will vanish in to the giant that is Facebook. Have no fear. According the the Friendfeed blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request:
What does this mean for my FriendFeed account?
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we will communicate openly about our plans as they develop — keep an eye on the FriendFeed News group for updates.
What about the FriendFeed API?
The FriendFeed API will also continue to operate normally. As above, we will let you know as we settle on our plan to more fully integrate with Facebook.
What does this mean for feedalizr?
With the Friendfeed API and your Friendfeed account operating normally you will still be able to use both Friendfeed & Facebook from our desktop application. Read the Facebook press release about the Friendfeed acquisition here.
July 8, 2009
find2follow – Find interesting Twitter users near you
A minimalistic approach to finding people you may like to follow on Twitter.
We love Twitter, it’s great, and it gets even better when we follow people we find interesting. However, it’s sometimes hard to find these guys. Well, we do find some known faces by chance every now and then, but it’d be nice to have a direct shortcut to them. So we developed this little tool, and we hope it will help you get in touch with people you care about, your friends, people near you!
find2follow is a SWAT labs project.
June 22, 2009
4 step Twitter & Friendfeed User Discovery with feedalizr 2.4 beta
With the latest upgrades to feedalizr discovering users on Twitter and Friendfeed on any topic that interests you has become as easy the following four steps.
- Create Groups(available since 2.3 beta) for your particular interests.
- Search Friendfeed and Twitter simultaneously for keywords relating to your interest.
- Follow Twitter and Friendfeed users
- Add those users to your various groups
Create Groups for your particular interests.
If, for example, your are interested in Search Engine Marketing, Social Media and Adobe AIR Apps you can use the Group manager to create three groups namely SEM, Social Media and Adobe AIR. This will allow you to view streams of users who your have added to the respective groups by dragging and dropping them into the group from your home stream in feedalizr. Each group can be opened in a new tab allowing you to only view users twitter, friendfeed or any service your have enabled within feedalizr stream with only the specific group interest.
Search Friendfeed and Twitter simultaneously for keywords relating to your interest.
Social Media topics range far and wide. If you are only interest in Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and Flickr your can run searches within feedalizr for all mentions of those topics within the public timeline of Twitter and Friendfeed. Thanks to the de-dupe feature you will not see the same entry twice.
Follow Twitter and Friendfeed users
When you see a particular user that interests you within your search streams following them is as easy as clicking the follow button (+).
Add those users to your various groups
To add that Friendfeed or Twitter user discovered in your search tabs to your group of choice simply drag the user from the search streams to your groups after following them. You can also click the group icon available with each entry in the stream and selecting which group to add them to from the drop down list of available groups. You will now receive updates from that user in your group stream that you have added them to.
For more information of the 2.4 beta update see the changelog or visit the help page for more detailed feedalizr group management.
May 27, 2009
2.3 Beta – Comment on your Facebook news feed & Group Manager
If feedalizr didn’t auto-update please download the latest version at the following URL http://www.feedalizr.com/download/feedalizr.air
Facebook have opened the flood gates and allowed us access to your news feed so we’ve updated the latest version of feedalizr to support commenting on and liking anything available in your Facebook news feed. You can still update your facebook status but now you can comment and like anything from facebook too.
Have you fuond yourself flooded with too much information coming down the real-time stream? Alas, feedalizr has now included a group manager aptly named Grouplizr which allows you to create custom groups of any of the users found in your stream on any service you are using within the app. You are not limited to the number of groups you are able to create neither are you limited to the number of users you are able to add to your groups.
Another new addition to version 2.3 beta is the ‘Me’ tab. This tab displays all your twitter replies/mentions and direct messages. We have gone a step further to include Updates from any service your have commented on or liked.
Should you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us on twitter @feedalizr , facebook, join the feedalizr room on friendfeed or get satisfaction.
April 7, 2009
How to monitor all your Twitter (@replies) and Friendfeed Mentions
You’ve just installed feedalizr to stream Twitter, Friendfeed and other Social Media sites to your desktop. Many of you who have migrated from other Adobe AIR Social Media Apps may be wondering, “Where are my @replies?”
Feedalizr’s real-time search allows your to find all activities on Twitter and Friendfeed referencing your username by following these easy steps.
- Click the Search icon.
- Enter your Twitter @username or Friendfeed username. If they are the same, bonus.
- Click Search.
A new tab will now open with all the mentions of your your username in twitter and FriendFeed. This tab will remain open and keep checking Twitter and Friendfeed for any mention of your username. This can also be used to track mentions of brands or people on Twitter and Friendfeed simultaneously. All duplicate mentions will be hidden as some people twitter their FriendFeed activities.
April 6, 2009
Earthquake in Italy on Friendfeed, Twitter & Twitpic
The new version of feedalizr just released today has taken all the feedback received from you via twitter, email and Get Satisfaction to bring you the ability to Search Twitter and Friendfeed in real time. There have also been few bug fixes implemented. See the changelog for a full list of updates.
Let’s demonstrate feedalizr’s Twitter and Friendfeed Search with a trending twitter topic at the moment: The Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy.
Clicking the earthquake Hot Topic will open a new tab displaying all tweets containing the word earthquake. If you click on the search icon and enter the term L’Aquila both Friendfeed and Twitter’s public timeline will be displayed in a new tab with all mentions of L’Aquila. Another search term we would suggest is ‘twitpic earthquake‘ to see all L’Aquila earthquake images shared on twitpic.
The feedalizr team sends our condolences to all those who have been affected by this natural disaster.
March 25, 2009
Direct Download of feedalizr.air for Linux
If you are running a flavor of Linux that requires a manual installation of Adobe® AIR™ and feedalizr the following steps should be taken:
Manually install Adobe® AIR™ (Linux)
The Adobe® AIR™ download is a bin file, call adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin. This file must be granted execution rights after you have downloaded it. You can do that by opening a console window, navigating to the file, and typing: chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin In some distro’s, notable Ubuntu, you can right click the file, select properties from the menu. Navigate to the Permissions tab, and check the box that says Allow executing file as a program – it is circled in this image:
To install the Adobe® AIR™ application, open a console window, and type ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin and follow the instructions.
Where to download feedalizr.air
There are 2 versions of feedalizr.air available for download:
- The old version that is fully supported on Linux – http://www.feedalizr.com/download/linux/feedalizr.air
- or the latest bleeding edge version of the feedalizr Adobe® AIR™ social media app – http://www.feedalizr.com/download/feedalizr.air (there might be a few bugs when running Adobe® AIR™ it on Linux but it’s worth the try
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Should you have any problems feel free to contact the feedalizr team via twitter, email or getsatisfaction.
March 18, 2009
Unable to install or uninstall Adobe AIR on Mac?
Adobe® AIR™ is the runtime environment required to install feedalizr, the social media desktop application, on your computer.
Having trouble installing or uninstalling Adobe® AIR™ on your Mac or PC? You are able to follow the Adobe® AIR™ installation troubleshooter here.
If your Adobe® AIR™ automatic update was interrupted on your Mac and you find yourself unable to run Adobe® AIR™ and therefore unable to run feedalizr or any other AIR application it might be caused by the following 2 issues:
- Do you have any input managers installed on your Mac? They’d appear in /Library/InputManagers. Several are known to be incompatible with AIR and could be causing the install to fail.
- It’s also possible you have a corrupted AIR install that’s tripping up the installer. If /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework is present on your machine, try removing it and then re-installing.
Once you have successfully removed and re-installed Adobe® AIR™ it will then be possible to run feedalizr to twitter, update your facebook status, friendfeed & flickr again.
March 9, 2009
Preventing the Facebook authorisation error
During the process of authorizing Facebook status updates via feedalizr many users have experienced problems. To prevent the dreaded Facebook authorisation error please do the following:
- Click get one-time code in the feedalizr application. This will open a new window in your browser showing the Facebook one-time code. Highlight and copy this code.
- Paste the one-time code into feedalizr. Once the one-time Facebook code has been pasted wait 30 seconds before proceeding to step 3.
- Now click the validate the authorisation button. Once the button at step 3 has been clicked the grant permission button will become active.
- Click ‘grant permission’
Waiting 30 seconds between step 2 and 3 should resolve the Facebook authorisation error. Now feedalizr can be used to update your Jaiku, Twitter and Facebook status.
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