Comments on: FriendFeed and Other Lifestreaming Services Need Filtering & Segmentation

By: Radu Panciuc

Radu Panciuc — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:58:41 +0000

Hi Mark, You raise a very important issue in this post. I think that all of us have gone and still going through the noise of the social web, as I like to call it. That's not very pleasant especially when you spend considerable time online and you feel attacked by irrelevant information from everywhere.
Anyway, to go back to the point of your article, I tame the social media firehose using a service called favit.com (not sure if you've heard about it).It provides me with quite several filtering options that I find very useful in taming the incoming information. There is a general filter which works in a similar way with the tag filtering system you described above. I use it mainly to monitor some fields that I am most interested in without having to go through information that is not relevant for me at that point. From time to time I use their saved search system too in order to monitor some brand names (e.g. I just bought myself a new Specialized bike and I am curious to see who's saying what about this brand. So far I heard only good things ). More than that, I integrated my Twitter and Facebook so that I can check everything from one single place, the cool part being that you can have multiple-platform discussions and, of course, you can create lists with all these friends.

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:19:58 +0000

Hey Todd, I agree that there could be issues if the burden is put on users to provide accuracy with their taxonomy skills. I like the stuff you are proposing as well.

Yes, I'm familiar with DiSO and I look forward to seeing what http://activitystrea.ms/ has to offer. Keep up the good work.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:00:17 +0000

Comment I left over at Mr. King's blog about OFace, reproduced here for the purposes of discussion
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Interesting. I have been working on noise reduction too:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/do_you_wan...

My original concept that uses any mobile phone's D-pad to reduce noise:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronin691/3132754199/

I guess the most immediate thing I noticed, that may be a problem, is that OFace dictates, top down, how the content is filtered. I, as a subscriber to Patty's activity stream must take the cards I am dealt and be totally dependent on Patty's taxonomy skills - which she may not posses.

A more practical bottom up approach could be a simple Grease Monkey script that I configure and performs the same meta function without Patty's input, or knowledge for that matter. Above nerdy Grease Monkey script could be a simple FireFox extension that performs the filtering.

It's important to note that I am not discounting OFace, just wondering if its misuse may do more damage than good ( like how myspace pages become unusable after someone "decorates" their home page with glitter graphics, RockYou slide shows, etc. ).

Question: Have you had a chance to look at the work being done be DiSo? It is attempting to address similar issues but up a few levels.

http://diso-project.org/

http://www.slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activity-s...

OFace is a good start! I hope what I have written here has not come off as rude, I am just really passionate about activity streams.

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