Friend Feed Scripts: Unsubscribe, Who Are You and Better By Service

It’s another week which means I have more Friend Feed scripts to share with you all.

• How to use Greasemonkey
• Script: Easy Unsubscribe – add an “unsubscribe” link on user pages
• Script: Who Are You? – display more information on user pages
• Script: Better By Services – filter out services without using FF’s “hide service” feature
• All of my Friend Feed scripts

How to Install Greasemonkey Scripts

• You need the Firefox web browser – Download and install
• You need to install Greasemonkey – How-To
• How to install a Greasemonkey script – How-To

Friend Feed Easy Unsubscribe

One of the biggest problems with Friend Feed is the signal to noise ratio. If someone is posting too much information (or repeating themselves by importing their tweets into Tumblr and then importing BOTH into Friend Feed) I’ll first try to unsubscribe from the services I don’t find interesting. If that doesn’t work, I’ll unsubscribe for the user. Unfortunately you have to dig deep down into the user settings to unsubscribe from someone.

I prefer having a link right on their user page so I can unsubscribe after looking at their latest entries to see if they’re sharing anything I find valuable.

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Install Easy Unsubscribe

• Click here to install Friend Feed Easy Unsubscribe
• Click here to share this script on Friend Feed or any other bookmarking site
• Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)

Script: Friend Feed Who Are You?

Another problem people have with Friend Feed is figuring out just who the heck someone is and why they are following you (or why you are following them). Friend Feed doesn’t let users write their own profiles. This script does the next thing and shows you the all the profile names someone uses on the different services.

Usually that’s enough to remember how I know them.

Who Are You? tucks away nicely when you aren’t using it.

(“no technology evening”? That’s crazy talk!)

Install Who Are You?

• Click here to install Friend Feed Who Are You?
• Click here to share this script on Friend Feed or any other bookmarking site
• Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)

Script: Friend Feed By Service

I’ve made a substantial update to the first script I wrote for Friend Feed. It now automatically checks FF for new services once a day so you don’t have to wait for me to update the script when they add new services.

It displays service icons on the friends/everyone public timelines and on user pages.

Clicking on a service icon opens a menu that will let you hide/show that service.

Hiding/showing the service happens instantly without reloading the page. Hiding isn’t permanent like the real “hide service” feature. This means you can have two tabs open: one with tweets and one without tweets.

You can hide services from the URL. This means you can create two bookmarks, one for viewing Friend Feed with Twitter, one with viewing Friend Feed without Twitter. This lets me use Friend Feed as a Twitter Client in one tab, but use it to stay on top of other people’s shared stuff in another tab.

• http://friendfeed.com/?service=twitter
• http://friendfeed.com/?hide_service=twitter
• (this won’t work unless you have the script installed)

You can even create a bookmark that hides more than one service.

• http://friendfeed.com/?hide_service=digg-reddit-stumbleupon
• (this won’t work unless you have the script installed)

In the future I might add more options like permanently hiding/unhiding a service.

Install FF By Service

• Click here to install Friend Feed By Service
• Click here to share this script on Friend Feed or any other bookmarking site
• Permalink to this script (Right click and Copy link to share it)

Even More Greasemonkey Scripts for Friend Feed

• Click here to install Friend Feed Pagerization Fixer (needs Pagerization, description)
• Pick one of these two scripts:
• • Click here to install Friend Feed 50 Per Page (description)
  • Click here to install Friend Feed 100 Per Page (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Reshare Links (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Even More Expander (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Remove Visited Links (description)
• Click here to install Friend Feed Twitter Client (description)

More Junk

Here’s a long list of similar stuff I’ve done for other blogging / social web app