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FriendFeed added a much needed feature, namely the ability to block another user.

When you block the user, they become invisible to you. You don’t see any of their entries, and more importantly, you don’t see any of their comments on other people’s entries.

They also don’t see any of your entries.

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Twitter Poem

June 13, 2008

Royal Highness, King Tweet,
Humbly we bow at your feet.

Oh we twitter, we tweet,
Daily we start with a greet.

In the break of the news,
Whalely, your service we bruise.

We love you, we hate,
Breathless, the whale we await.

To the Court we do ask,
Waiting, in answers to bask.

In the drinks from King Tweet,
Coyly, what potion you feed?

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Number One: Don’t refresh the page when one subscribes to someone from the pop-up box when you hover over a person’s name.

This kind of “inline” subscribing is very useful, but when you’re way down the page, still reading entries and comments, it’s frustrating to lose where you were when the page refreshes with new content in possibly a different order.

Number Two: Give us the ability to subscribe to someone when you’re viewing an individual entry.

Number Three: Gives us a tab where the “friends” feed is sorted strictly by the time of the original entry, newest entry first.

New (unliked or uncommented) items often disappear too quickly from the first “friends” tab page, if there are very “busy” items being liked or commented on.

Number Four: Sort the “search” results by the time of the original entry, or at least give one the option to sort them that way.

Number Five: Give us dockable tabs.

When one views an individual entry (which is useful when it’s a busy entry and you want to focus on the new comments coming in), you lose the entry when you quickly want to see what’s going on in the general “friends” feed.

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