Add Profiles to FriendFeed and Extend Your Twitter Profile
Micro-blogging darling Twitter and the charming aggregation site FriendFeed are missing one huge thing that most users don't mind overlooking: profiles. While, it really isn't a big deal profiles can be helpful when determining whether or not to add someone as a friend. So if you've been missing those features, here's a way to add a profile to FriendFeed and extend your Twitter profile.
Add A Profile To FriendFeed
Web developer and active FriendFeed user Hao Chen has created a FriendFeed profile greasemonkey script that will import a user's Twitter profile and display it on FriendFeed.This script will only work if the user has his or her Twitter stream being imported into FriendFeed.
Extended Twitter Profile
While the simple profile that Twitter offers may suffice for some, sometimes you just want more. In comes the Extended Twitter Profile background. Released by Fabrice Epelboin, this is a Photoshop .PSD file that you can customize by adding more images, web addresses, and general information. Once you're done with editing the .PSD, simply save your file as a .jpeg or .png image file and upload it as your Twitter background.
Making Twitter and FriendFeed Better Places
These extensions are a great addition to both communities and good for promoting your site and more. Now you can finally figure out who the guy who keeps requesting you on FriendFeed really is. On the same note, you can finally promote other communities and sites on Twitter without spamming your followers. If you're using the Extended Twitter Profile background, leave a link to your Twitter profile in the comments section and show us what you've done.
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Wow... Thanks for the traffic... My host is going to hate you :))))
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I wrote an article in German, giving some hints how to create an extended Twitter profile: http://www.lesereins.de/?p=165
I have been trying to figure out what to do with my Twitter background. Excellent.
Fabiano is a dang thief! I've had my twitter background like this for a couple months, and now this scoundrel comes across and claims that putting your blog as well as contact information in your twitter background is original?
Well kudos to him for branding it effectively, and I'd say this still proves how much better Friendfeed is than twitter.
Hi,
Thanks for the tip.
The microblogging platform http://www.cirip.ro offers the posibility to display the items of the Friendfeed profile - as an example please check http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13 .
Only one of the interesting facilities, such as feeds monitoring, private and public groups, embedding multimedia objects, live video messages using seesmic, or timeline.
Thanks,
Carmen
friendfeed is better as compare to twitter
most of the time twitter is down :(
I'm going to piss on Fabrice's and Andrew's parade by stating the obvious: Huh?
What are you two so proud of? An image as a background with links that don't work?
Do you honestly think that people are going to bother manually typing in your Facebook address, or even an email address?
Better profiles would be nice, but background images are not a solution. Why this is worthy of RWW coverage, I honestly don't know.
@Dominic My pride comes from being in RRW, not from a Photoshop template that obviously took me 5 minutes ;)
I'm a big semantic geek, I've written a few things about it (in French, and at Mashable, sorry ;), and RRW is really important to me.
And..er... yes, obviously, more than 20 peoples to date have bothered typing manualy my Linkedin and email account to get in touch (as for my Facebook, I guess they need to give cleaner url for this to happen)
@andrew
er... what can I say... didn't really steal anything from anybody, and as I said on my blog, many people have been doing this before me, the only thing I've done is sharing it.
Wow, I'm totally impressed by the Twitter background idea. I mean -- I was going to change the background anyway (eventually), so why not let it serve as a place for more information?
I am impressed with the concept for the extended Twitter profile as well, it's a decent alternative that seems to work well. Would like to see FriendFeed introduce an About Me section, if not on the profile page make it visible when hovering the cursor over the username!
I love the twitter background image idea.
Posted by: Rob Diana
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July 7, 2008 6:14 AM
Interesting post, thanks. I think this type of mash up will be increasingly useful as social media continues to fragment and as each user finds features that are useful in one app but unavailable in another.
One point I would make, is that a profile is not necessarily the best way to judge who to follow on Twitter. For example, I have profiles of Facebook friends which seem interesting enough but who do not really do much. With Twitter, the best way to judge who to follow is in the quality of their Tweets. Are they posting useful links and information? Are their opinions well-considered? It's the content they are providing rather than their profiles that is the best criterion of whether to follow or not.
tit-for-tat. can we all just play nice in the sandbox. we're missing the point of cool collaboration tools. when we share, we all gain. i understand it's nice to receive the credit for doing something "orignal", but hey, let's be honest here...is there anything on the web that truly original.
BTW, RWW-you all Rock. I like what I see and it definitely is better than what I've been traditionally following on TechCrunch.
I am loving this new FF Greasemonkey script that adds Twitter bios to FF profile pages, possibly even more than the "better recommended" script - maybe. What an awesome combo tho!
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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July 7, 2008 11:58 AM
no doubt, marshall... good stuff!
Posted by: Sam Harrelson
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July 7, 2008 11:58 AM
Corvida, these are awesome - especially the FF scripts. Such a huge improvement in user experience!
Sorry for the blatant marketing, but thought this is relevant. We at retaggr have recently released a Greasemonkey script that embeds users' retaggr profile cards when viewing them on twitter and FriendFeed.
Have a look at: http://www.retaggr.com/Home/UserTools