June 22, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Follow @feedalizr on twitter or join the feedalizr facebook page for more updates.
March 4, 2009
Would you like to share your FriendFeed activity with your followers on twitter? The following post will explain how to setup your FriendFeed account to automatically tweet whatever items your aggregate on FriendFeed. You will need both a FriendFeed and twitter account to do this. Presumably you already have both your FriendFeed and twitter accounts running in the feedalizr Adobe® AIR™ app but do not wish to repeat posting things you share in FriendFeed on twitter. This is not a feedalizr feature but a setting in FriendFeed that will automate the twittering process.
- Go to the FriendFeed home page an login.
- On your Account Settings page scroll to Feed Publishing.
- Check the ‘Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter‘ and entrer your twitter username and password.
- Now Select ‘Posts All entries except twitter‘ or ‘The services I’ve selected below‘. You are able to specify exactly which of yor friendfeed items you wish to share with your twitter followers like your blog, Flickr, SlideShare or LinkedIn, Last.fm, Friendfeed likes/comments or any feed you are aggregating in FriendFeed.
- Click Save Settings
Now every time your selected services in FriendFeed will be tweeted.
Do not forget to mark “Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation“.
You are able to join the feedalizr room on FriendFeed here to see what the feedalizr community on FriendFeed are up to.
feedalizr can be used as your FriendFeed and twitter desktop app(with full twitpic support) and also supports Flickr, jaiku and Facebook Status Update lifestreaming.
February 16, 2009
With the latest update of feedalizr the team have been squashing bugs reported by you on GetSatisfaction. To see a full list of the bugs that have been fixed have a look at the Change log.
Sharing photos on twitter is becoming increasingly popular. The majority of you use the Twitpic site to do so. Many of the Adobe® AIR™ desktop applications out there that allow you to upload a photo to Twitpic only return the Twitpic url. The only way you can see your friends photos uploaded to Twitpic is by clicking the twitpic link and viewing the twitpic image in your browser. To continue using twitter as you normally would you have to return to your chosen twitter application.
The feedalizr team have now integrated Twitpic support in the following 2 ways:
- Upload an image, with drag-and-drop or browsing your file system, to the feedalizr twitter screen. When you tweet, with an image added to feedalizr, your image will be automatically uploaded to twitpic, and the Twitpic URL appended to your tweet.
- See your friends Twitpic photos inside of feedalizr as they are tweeted. When any of the twitter users you are following have a Twitpic url within one of their tweets feedalizr will pull that image directly into your update stream. Get a preview of the image shared on Twitpic without having to go to the Twitpic website. If you would like to see the full sized image on twitpic photo all that is required is to click the image and your browser will be opened at the Twitpic url.
One of the bugs that have been fixed is the tabbed browsing within feedalizr. When clicking on the service icons within your home steam that particular service or user will be opened in a new tab. Read more about tabs in feedalizr here.
December 2, 2008
If you are wondering what the letters RT are doing at the start of this blog heading, we thought we’d give you a little clue. You only get one guess what new functionality we are rolling out today. Last chance, okay we’ll tell you. You can now retweet and share any Twitter entry you like, with one simple click, using the latest version of feedalizr.
Since the most popular service on feedalizr is Twitter, we have been fast tracking all the feature requests for enhancements to our Twitter service. The most requested feature was retweeting. The feedalizr team are very happy to deliver this new functionality along with 2 other key changes. feedalizr now displays the @username next to the User’s name on the Twitter entries of the people that you follow. Another handy feature is that we have linked the @username inside a twitter entry. So if you are reading a tweet and there is a reference to another twitter user, e.g. @feedalizr you can click on the @username and that person’s Twitter profile page will open in a new browser window.
There are also 2 bug fixes which have been included in this release. The first is that the twitter post screen now gets cleared each time you tweet. This means that feedalizr no longer remembers who you tweeted last. The other bug occurred when you clicked on the reply button on a friendfeed twitter entry. The problem getting the twitter user’s name has been resolved. So you can easily reply to tweets inside the friendfeed entry by clicking on the Reply (@) button.
Enjoy using some of the new fun Twitter functionality and don’t forget to retweet often, especially about us. Follow us @feedalizr on twitter , join our room on friendfeed, become a fan on facebook or write to us on get satisfaction.
The feedalizr team
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