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Yet Posterous is not one of the featured services on Friendfeed (you can do it manually via RSS).

paul 18y ago
Nor is Blogger or most other blog services. You can simply add them as "Blog" though. The "featured" services are generally things other than blogs where it's friendlier to ask for their username instead of url (such as YouTube), or that require other special processing.
- fallentimes 18y ago
  Ah okay - thanks for the reply.
- rantfoil 18y ago
  Thank you for the mention, Paul. We really appreciate it. I think the main reason why we'd like to be able to add Posterous through the FF main page is the fact that people don't understand RSS, especially our users who are brand new to blogging and are doing it for the first time through email. In the longer term as FF reaches mainstream, these considerations around dead simple import of feeds become even moreso important.
  - brlewis 18y ago
    As an alternative, vote up (er, Like) my suggestion: http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a09856-762d-43ad-9298-b32080b4190a/Add-feed-X-to-friendfeed-via-web/ http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a09856-762d-43ad-9298-b32080b4190a... Then you, I, or anyone passionate about getting her/his own site easily integrable with FriendFeed can set up a UI to do it from our end.
    - paul 18y ago
      I finally got around to adding that. You can now prefill the configuration and set a "next" url so that FriendFeed can be easily integrated into a configuration flow on your own site. For example, http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/blog?url=http://myblogurl.com/&next=http://myservice.com/afteradd http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/blog?url=http://mybl... will add the blog http://myblogurl.com/ http://myblogurl.com/ and redirect the user to http://myservice.com/afteradd http://myservice.com/afteradd afterwords. There is also a "nextcancel" parameter which can be used to distinguish between success and cancel.
      - brlewis 18y ago
        Thanks! I feel befriended and fed.
  - paul 18y ago
    The "blog" service only asks for the blog url and does not even mention RSS (we look for the appropriate link tag on the page). I've also just added the feature that Bruce requested, so you should be able to add a "Add this blog to FriendFeed" link to all of your blogs which prefills the url box and directs them back to your site after it is added on FriendFeed. Let me know if you encounter any problems.

paul 18y ago

Nor is Blogger or most other blog services. You can simply add them as "Blog" though. The "featured" services are generally things other than blogs where it's friendlier to ask for their username instead of url (such as YouTube), or that require other special processing.

fallentimes 18y ago
Ah okay - thanks for the reply.
rantfoil 18y ago
Thank you for the mention, Paul. We really appreciate it. I think the main reason why we'd like to be able to add Posterous through the FF main page is the fact that people don't understand RSS, especially our users who are brand new to blogging and are doing it for the first time through email. In the longer term as FF reaches mainstream, these considerations around dead simple import of feeds become even moreso important.
- brlewis 18y ago
  As an alternative, vote up (er, Like) my suggestion: http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a09856-762d-43ad-9298-b32080b4190a/Add-feed-X-to-friendfeed-via-web/ http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a09856-762d-43ad-9298-b32080b4190a... Then you, I, or anyone passionate about getting her/his own site easily integrable with FriendFeed can set up a UI to do it from our end.
  - paul 18y ago
    I finally got around to adding that. You can now prefill the configuration and set a "next" url so that FriendFeed can be easily integrated into a configuration flow on your own site. For example, http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/blog?url=http://myblogurl.com/&next=http://myservice.com/afteradd http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/blog?url=http://mybl... will add the blog http://myblogurl.com/ http://myblogurl.com/ and redirect the user to http://myservice.com/afteradd http://myservice.com/afteradd afterwords. There is also a "nextcancel" parameter which can be used to distinguish between success and cancel.
    - brlewis 18y ago
      Thanks! I feel befriended and fed.
- paul 18y ago
  The "blog" service only asks for the blog url and does not even mention RSS (we look for the appropriate link tag on the page). I've also just added the feature that Bruce requested, so you should be able to add a "Add this blog to FriendFeed" link to all of your blogs which prefills the url box and directs them back to your site after it is added on FriendFeed. Let me know if you encounter any problems.