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Facebook Adopts @Mentions

Posted by clifgriffin in Technology on September 14th, 2009

Just learned via twitter (thanks @danportnoy) that Facebook has adopted @Mentions.  That’s pretty cool.

The way this works is very simple. While updating your status pressing the @ key reveals a list of users that narrows down as you type, similar to other name lists. This effectively links to the user profile from your status and includes your status on their wall.

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However, my most desired use of this system is apparently still impossible.  I use a Facebook application called Selective Twitter Status to update my Facebook with my tweets when they include the hashtag #fb. It works well and prevents me from bombarding Facebook with my random thoughts.

For the sake of consistency, and out of habit, I also use the same username on both Facebook and Twitter.  I have many friends that do the same. The connection should seem obivous.  It would be fantastic if I could update twitter, include hashtag #fb, and the resulting Facebook post automatically link to mentioned usernames it finds.

Unfortunately I tested this just now and it does not work.

So Facebook, the ball is in your court.  Let’s make this happen.

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Where is the Facebook Status RSS feed on the new Facebook?

Posted by clifgriffin in General on October 8th, 2008

Every iteration of Facebook seems to make finding the status RSS feed harder, yet it does still exist.

Here it is. Right here.

Here it is. Right here.

Step-by-step instructions:

  1. Click here.
  2. Click “My Status” as pictured below.
  3. Your done.

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MySpace is for the Internet what Project Manhattan was for Japan.

Posted by clifgriffin in Rant on January 29th, 2007

Catchy, no? True, no?

I should make it a Facebook group. I would, except that I’ve been deemed a group creating tart. But you know, I can’t help it if I think of clever groups that I would want to be in and then feel like sharing the blessings of my creativity.

Anyway, I digress. I have a little rant for you tonight. There is no purpose behind this rant. I’m not actually even mad. I’m just bored. Very bored.

Tonight’s target? MySpace.

MySpace is an unbelievably bad website. There’s no order. There’s no consistency (besides being consistenly terrible). There’s no usability. If someone were to show me MySpace and tell me it would sell for a half billion dollars, I would laugh at them so hard I might lose a lung.

It breaks every rule. It’s so bad that even my sisters (who unfortunately use it) have to admit it’s terrible. There only come back is “”Well, it’s getting better.”" Yeah, getting better after someone gave someone else 580 million dollars.

It brings me back to 1999 when I was working on such failed dotcom ideas as eKidsPlace.com and YourPediatrician.com (both defunct). We were laboring under the misaprehension that we might have to have a good product to become millionares.

Thanks for proving me wrong MySpace.

And besides looking terrible and working terrible, it’s also a social mess. There’s no verification of anything. You don’t *know* who anyone is. Anyone could be anyone and they usually are. It’s a parents worst nightmare. My overall impression of MySpace is that it attracts the most shallow of mankind. It’s as bad as IRC.

*shakes head*

What is the Internet coming to?

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