Load Friendfeed Real-time Beta On Your Firefox Sidebar

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Friendfeed launched today a cool beta feature, Friendfeed Real-time. Here’s a quick tip on how to load Friendfeed Real-time on your Firefox sidebar:

1) Add this to your bookmark http://friendfeed.com/realtime?embed=1

2) Right-click the bookmark

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3) Properties

4) Tick the “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”

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5) You’re done!

It should look like the screenshot below

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Now you get the best of both worlds in FriendFeed. The standard view and real-time view at the same time.

Enjoy!

4 Responses to “Load Friendfeed Real-time Beta On Your Firefox Sidebar”

  1. Susan Beebe Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 12:03 am

    AJ this is really awesome – nice job of documenting and sharing this!

    Susan Beebe
    http://friendfeed.com/susanbeebe

  2. aj Says:
    October 16th, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Thanks Susan!

  3. Roll Your Own Real Time News Ticker with FriendFeed | Startup Wire Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am

    [...] With FriendFeed launching RealTime updates, it wont have taken long for people like Steve Rubel to put it to some really good use. Apparently you can roll out your personal Real Time News ticker by using FriendFeed. Here’s how to do it.First, create a bunch of imaginary friends for the different news sources you want to follow. Assign each to a relevant Twitter profile. For example, I have three imaginary friends: The New York Times (Twitter), Techmeme Firehose (on Twitter) and Breaking News (on Twitter).Next, add these to a special Friendfeed list. I rolled them up in a list called News.Now click on the real-time link on this list page, open the mini window and bingo. You can also bookmark it so that itruns in your Firefox sidebar. [...]

  4. Mystical Magick » My Social Media Workflow Says:
    April 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    [...] And once you’ve gotten started, you can even get FriendFeed to update in real-time from your Firefox sidebar. ;) This way you can work and surf other sites and still keep updated in real-time. Trust me, [...]