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Jan 26 2009

FFoFF Friendfeed on Firefox – the Search to Define an Uber App

Category: lifestreaming,speed the web,tools — jmacofearth @ 9:35 pm

FFoFF – The Next Gen Open Social Platform

FriendFeed is a great tool for tracking others feeds and posts and comments and such. There are a lot of new tools that do this kinda "lifestream" process, but I am using FF as a first experiment to see how far we can go using only free tools, sites and widgets, and of course FireFox. So like RubyonRails (RoR) I now present FFoFF.

The FriendFeed Global Social Media Conversation ROOM is an initial discussion group for sharing the FFoFF idea and engaging some smart folks in a dialogue about it. So far it's mainly me posting notes and thoughts to myself, but eventually the FF Room tool should be a simple aggregator of any content necessary to build a custom feed.

There are several open social platforms in flight and my experiment is not meant to conflict with folks doing the real work. Groups like like Marc Canter's OpenMesh and DAPP development teams, these teams are doing actual development. I am working a kludge, using their tools and Google's tools and jamming them together into some kind of personal navigator for the web.

I have sketched out the concept in powerpoint so that you can see and we can discuss the process and needs for this project or process or protocol/platform/stack. (Those last three words were thrown in there to make it look like I am smart about this stuff. I'm not. Marc Canter, now he's smart!) I hope you find some way to curse or cajole me along and join in if you see a soft spot.

See ya outside the rails.

@jmacofearth
Permalink: http://bit.ly/ffoff-begins

Tags: conversation room, discussion group, ffoff, firefox, free tools, friendfeed, lifestream, lifestreaming, lifestreaming tools, marc canter, open source community, personal navigator, smart folks, social platform, speed the web, tools, trusted social network, twitter, work groups

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Jan 05 2009

GWD – Getting Webwork Done – tools, taxonomies, hacks, reviews, best-of-breed

Category: about me,connections,lifestreaming,social media,speed the web,tools — jmacofearth @ 12:07 pm

GWD (Getting Webwork Done) is an homage to GTD (Getting Things Done). – This is the first official GWD post.

1. Simplify my mental tag cloud

2. Control, filter and capture the important bits of my personal infostream

3. Share my personal growth and journey with new ideas, processes and technologies

4. Gain Velocity and Agility

5. Let go of the stress and overwhelm associated with information overload

6. Examine spiritual simplification as part of this overall lifeway (cause the Social Web holds the future for me in many ways)

7. Open my processes to the communities I haunt and ask for other virtual pilgrams to join the call for agility

8. Do better

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/GWD-webwork

Related Posts and Pages:
GWD – Getting Webwork Done – Home Page
In search of the Uber App for Social Media
My first visualization of the uber app was called The Cloud, the View and the App (a fable).

Many thanks to
David Allen for GTD.
43 folders for the INBOX ZERO series.
John Lessnau for his 2009 Business Goals post that kicked me over the top this morning.

Tags: 37 signals, agile team, agility, browsing evolution, david allen, ffoff, firefox, friendfeed, gain agility, gain velocity, getting things done, getting webwork done, GTD, GWD, ideas processes and technologies, Inbox ZERO, information overload, infostream, jmacofearth, john mcelhenney, lifestreaming tools, meaning of life, Michael Dell, michael s dell, my mental tag cloud, simplification, simplify the web, simplify your life, social media, social media evolution, social media marketing, social networking, social networks, social web, speedtheweb, spiritual journey, spirituality in social media, tools, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter tools, virtual team, webwork

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Dec 18 2008

Tweaking Firefox for UX/UI and Sssssppeeeeeedd!

Category: just for fun,speed the web — jmacofearth @ 10:37 am

Has anyone else spent 10 minutes tweaking their bookmark ribbon in Firefox? Adding a number of new projects to my portfolio of web work/explore/play brought me to an optimizing moment. While I am trying to reduce my mental tag cloud I am always looking to make my apps and working environment (software, sound, chair, temperature, monitor) simple and clean.

So here is my newly stripped down bookmark ribbon in firefox. I'd love to see how others have used various tools or variations of optimizing their browser to speed things up. Now if I could just get the dang thing to run faster… Oh wait, that might be the web… ;-)

I've shown you mine, I'd love you to take a pic of yours and send it over. [heh heh]

@jmacofearth

permalink: http://bit.ly/speed-the-web
[updated: firefox bookmark ribbon updated < 30 minutes later < 20 updates to post]

So in the world of web design there are some of us who are meticulous (ocd?) and those who are not. Often, even under crucial deadlines at 2am, I would be tweaking files [>>edit photoshop file>>exporting to gif or jpeg>>uploading to site>>previewing in 3 browsers>>repeat>>open file in photoshop>>..] a pixel at a time to get something to line up just right. Throw the 80/20 rule out the window, this was the 99/1 rule.

In a similar fashion, if I'm going to journey down a process with others to explore making browsing [any browser, any plugin, any additional tweaks] better then I have to go that last 1 pixel and get things right. While 99.9% of the readers/visitors won't notice a thing or care, I'm gonna see the 1mm ragged edge and need to fix it. Better to fix it first, and if not first then immediately upon discovering the miss. Yep, even at 5:30am when the client is arriving at 7.

So I offer my updated/tweaked/hotrodded firefox bookmark ribbon for your perusal. Try and spot the changes and guess what they mean or why I did it, OR don't! [grin]

The first 10 correct answers get a limited-edition www.wikisocial.org t-shirt. I am looking for 3 things that changed.

[One more interesting note on the 99/1 rule: I started this post at 10:20 and have now completed about 21 22 23 revisions now at 11:30 31]

Tags: 80/20 rule, 99/1 rule, best browser, browser basics, browser wars, contest, ffoff, firefox, firefox enhancements, optimizing, optimizing firefox, speed the web, t-shirt contest, the app, tweaking firefox, ui enhancements, upgrading firefox, ux enhancements, web browser tips, web design, wikisocial t-shirt, working environment

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Dec 06 2008

FriendFeed Ups the Bar for LifeStreaming (new features ≠ better experience)

Category: about me,lifestreaming,social media,tools — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

My favorite aggregation service (though that is a cold way to tag them) FriendFeed continues to lead the pack in innovating LifeStreaming as a way to gather our communities and conversations into one (at least fewer) place.

One of my new favorite tools, Tweetdeck, has gone a long way towards bringing twitter into the realm of organized. FF still has many more features, allows me to post my FF comments as twitter posts, AND collect all many of my links, blurbs, blogs and favorites.

I wanted to highlight some of Friendfeed's new magic.

Columns for grouping your feeds (mine below: dell, Favorites, Personal, Professional) and ME (to keep track of all that I am generating, and ROOMS. I need to do a deep dive into ROOMS soon to show all the power that can be built into these communities (a bit later perhaps).

Standard viewing was the only way to view your FF, but now "Real-time" does it's best to mimic the Twitter experience. "Best of day" is sort of a favorites channel, but I haven't spent much time there.