Here's a quick guide on creating your own filtered view of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/friends/?status">facebook status updates</a> for your news reader.
I got an email from a friend of digitalkatie about facebook and twitter. Apparently the constant stream of status updates via twitter into facebook is overwhelming his use of the facebook status RSS feed. There is a nice solution using yahoo pipes without needing any real programming.
You might want to take a look at pipes.yahoo.com. They provide a nice gui based
process building tool which allows you to set up a chain of processes to take action on combinations of RSS feeds and web pages.
- Login using a yahoo id, create a new pipe.
- Copy the the address[1] of the facebook RSS feed into a new 'fetch feed' block.
- Add a new 'filter block' and connect the fetch feed to the filter block by drawing a line between the bottom connector on the fetch and the top one on the filter block.
- You could enter some text in the filter block - choose to block ANY items with ' is twittering: ' in them.
- Now connect the bottom of the filter up to the 'pipe output' block.
- Save and 'run feed' to view the results. (No need to 'publish it' or to rename the feed)
Buttons on the results page will allow you to add it to My Yahoo, Google Reader or other feed readers using the orange RSS 'more options' link.
I'm using the filtered feed in Bloglines and finding it quite useful. There is no point in seeing the same messages twice as I read twitter on my phone or on the website.
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