Update Notification: One feature FriendFeed can get inspired from Socialthing
Socialthing is still in private beta and those of us already a fan of FriendFeed might think Socialthing has no scope of big life. However, when I recently got into its private beta, I was surprised to find a nice feature of Socialthing that FriendFeed desperately requires.
I am talking about Sociathing’s update notification that comes on top of your profile page whenever there is some new update from your friends. We have heard of Friendfeed users refreshing the page periodically to check if there are updates. This update notification feature is one that many would love.
To top this up, Friendfeed can do the updates with AJAX just like in Gmail. That would be lovely.
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19. June 2008 at 23:51
In regards to your last point about topping up Socialthing (which I’ve been using since it launched in March) by making the update notification popup with AJAX (just like in Gmail)… What makes you think Socialthing isn’t already doing this? How else would it pop up? As for just like Gmail, why not just like Socialthing? It’s the same type of notification.
20. June 2008 at 00:05
Ted, What I meant was the updates coming on the page without having to deal with the notification box. My mistake for not being clear.
7. July 2008 at 21:38
It’s been over two weeks since you wrote this post, but I just noticed that friendfeed updates itself, without users having to refresh the page. However, the title bar doesn’t get updated with the number of updates.