FriendFeedHolic Blog

Subscribe To Most Popular or Active Users via FFholic!

FFholic Team — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:24:29 +0000

We just launched a new feature to let FriendFeedHolics subscribe to any user on FriendFeed. Now you can subscribe to users that you see in our lists, right from our website with the click of a button.

If you are new to FriendFeed, a Social Media Professional – or just willing to find interesting users, you’ll probably love this new feature.

Just go into FFholic.com, start browsing and if you find someone interesting, simply click the “Subscribe” button under the user’s profile photo. The system will ask for your FriendFeed user name and Remote Key. Once you enter that, you are subscribed to that user. Pretty simple. We keep your remote key until your session ends to make the process more convenient for you.

Note: If you are already subscribed to the user, nothing will happen and no action will be taken. And, we do not store your remote key in our database.

We are also working on a new design and great features to make FFholic a better and useful place. So, please if you have any ideas or feature requests do not hesitate to contact us via contact (at) ffholic.com

And we’re back

FFHolic Team — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:42:53 +0000

Our connection is stable right now and you shouldn’t have problem accessing our pages.

We’ve changed our IP, so if our pages are giving you a timeout or network error, try flushing your DNS, restart browser, or worst case reboot your computer.

We hope to keep the systems up and running.

FFHolic server under DDoS attack

FFHolic Team — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:10:57 +0000

As you may have noticed that FFHolic.com has been down for the last couple of days. Another site hosted on the same server is under heavy DDoS (distributed denial-of-service, 400Mbps right now) attack and that is crippling the network equipment.

It seems like a SYN attack with spoofed IP addresses, so it’s hard to identify the source and distinguish good packets from bad ones.

We are trying to solve the issue through our ISP and main service provider.
We’ll be back as soon as the issue can be resolved.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the redundancy that we wish to have right now, so moving on to another server is not an option at this time. We hope to have that soon too.

Baris Seker

User subscription counts

FFholic Team — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:18:59 +0000

About 3 days ago we noticed that the subscription counts of FF users were calculated awfully wrong.

We don’t know why exactly it happened but it would be more convenient for us to blame FF for it What happened is, suddently all users started to show up as private. When a user goes private we delete their subscription information. When more than 70% of the users went private our counts started to go out of way.

We are in the process to gather the subscription information of users again, but it takes a while to fetch 100k users from the FF API.

We expect the numbers to back to normal in a few days.

We’re sorry for the inconvenienve this may have caused.

Update: I think we got the situation under control. If you notice some inconsistencies with your numbers please contact us.

Widgets for FriendFeedHolics!

FFholic Team — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:37:40 +0000

We launched FFholic widgets which can either be customized for a user’s most liked/commented/discussed entries or just to show off the “mosts” from everyone.

For example: Louis Gray, one of the most subscribed users on FriendFeed, added our widget to his blog to show his most liked FriendFeed entries.

To get your own widget simply check out our Tools section.

And, if you use any of our widgets please let us know. We really get so excited to see our product in action and used by people.

P.S.: Thank you Louis Gray! It was such a great surprise, you made our day.

Language filtering for rooms and users

FFholic Team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:31:23 +0000

We launched language filtering for rooms and users!

You can find the most active and popular rooms in different languages and also get the list of most popular and active users by their entry languages.

Let’s see this new feature in action.

Here is the most popular Turkish FriendFeed users (users who write mostly in Turkish).

Also, here is the most popular rooms in Italian.

Have fun!

Room search for FriendFeed

FFholic Team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:21:26 +0000

I bet it was the feature you’ve been waiting

FriendFeed Room Search is live on FFholic (aka FriendFeedHolic).

Example: Rooms search for keyword “FriendFeed“

Most discussed FriendFeed entries. No, it’s not most liked or most commented ;)

FFholic Team — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:11:31 +0000

We launched a new feature called “Most Discussed Entries”. It is not most liked or most commented ones. With this new feature we find and track the most discussed and most meaningful conversations.

If you are one of those FriendFeed users who do not like cat photos or fun stuff, then you should check out the most discussed list for deep conversations.

You can check this new cool feature here.

Analysis of Robert Scoble’s “The most “techie” FriendFeeders” List

FFholic Team — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:10:51 +0000

Today Robert Scoble published his hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding. And we performed some quick analysis on this list.

FriendFeed’s top buzz creators

FFholic Team — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:18:15 +0000

There is always a buzz about something on FriendFeed and that buzz usually helps people or companies to get more popular on the internet.

Here is the top five buzz creators for some popular blogs and personalities on FriendFeed.

The list is created via “most liked entry search” of FFholic (aka FriendFeedHolic). In general this is the list of FriendFeed users who shared the most liked entries about a blog or person.

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