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July 9th, 2008
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Users have encountered a situation in Visio where the Reviewing toolbar is always shown. Even once you turn off the toolbar, it reappears the next time the document is opened or the Visio application is launched. Some possible explanations and remedies.
friendfeed usability issues - time for a friendfeed browser toolbar?
July 8th, 2008
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for as much as i love friendfeed, its context can be quite disjointed. here’s a scenario to illustrate:
- i’m reading my friendfeed stream and i click a headline, that page opens in a new background tab
- i keep scrolling through other headlines, the tabbed article is to be “read later”
- i open a few more tabs, and continue scrolling
- i finish scrolling, and proceed to the articles i’ve opened for reading
- i “like” one of these articles and want to share it. now the ambiguity begins.
- do i share it using some other sharing service that will appear in my friendfeed stream? (easy)
- do i return to friendfeed, find the original post, and like it? (much harder)
- similar ambiguity is raised when i want to comment, where should i do this?
a friendfeed toolbar might record the url (and corresponding tab) of each post i open and allow me to like and comment in place. add search, and a way to post new content, and you have a full toolbar. just a thought.
friendfeed increasing site visits?
July 8th, 2008
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just a quick thought, but longer than a tweet!
has friendfeed increased visits to websites? prior to using it as a significant aggregator i was strongly wed to google reader. unless your site only provided summaries, i rarely left reader. and unless your post called out specific comments, i missed those too. so for all the talk about friendfeed stealing the conversation, i wonder.
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July 3rd, 2008
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friendfeed “back to top” link
July 3rd, 2008
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i have a real simple enhancement for friendfeed. a “back to top” link after every entry.
i created this because i never really leave page 1, which i’ve lengthened with internet duct tape to show 50 posts. i found i was doing a great deal of scrolling to get back to the top of the page once i had read it, so i created this rudimentary script. it’s far from perfect, though, embarrassing in fact, and i’m hoping somebody can fix the kluge i’ve created to detect page refresh. i’ve given up on finding the refresh event… i also added a light horizontal line and some space between posts for legibility.
here’s a screenshot:
and here’s the script (requires greasemonkey):
// ==UserScript==
// @name friendfeed back to top navigation
// @namespace http://robzand.com
// @include http://friendfeed.com/*
// @exclude http://friendfeed.com/settings/*
// @version 1.1
// ==/UserScript==
function insertLinks(){
var topLink = 'top';
var c0 = 'rsz200';
if(document.getElementById(c0) == null){
l = document.createElement('a');
l.name = topLink;
var el = document.getElementById('tabhead');
el.parentNode.insertBefore(l,el);
var ar = document.getElementById('feed').getElementsByTagName('div');
for(i=0;i
a = document.createElement('a');
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode('back to top'));
var dl = document.location.href.replace(document.location.hash,'');
a.href=dl + '#' + topLink;
a.style.lineHeight='3em';
a.style.color='#ccc';
if(i==0){a.id=c0}
ar[i].style.borderBottom = '1px dotted #ccc';
ar[i].style.paddingBottom = 'bottom:1.75em';
ar[i].appendChild(a);
}
}
}
}
insertLinks();
setInterval(insertLinks,5000)
would love to see a better answer. thanks.
