New Twitter Features in FriendBinder

We have added a number of small features to improve experience of using Twitter on FriendBinder. They are all additions to the "stream" page.

We have changed the "reply" and "re-tweet" feature so can now reply inline without navigating away from the page:
We have add a search replies link, which again works inline, that tries to find replies to the twitter message from everyone (not just your friends).


We can also find the message that someone replied to (though this working depends on their client having been updated with the feature)
and finally, we have implemented inline viewing of pictures from TwitPic, Twitgoo, yfrog, pix.im and img.ly.
Please let us know what you think or if you have any suggestions on how we can improve FriendBinder.

FriendBinder on your mobile

FriendBinder is now available on your mobile at http://m.friendbinder.com. You can view the stream and post to Twitter and Facebook using the mobile site. We have added a "re-tweet" link on both sites which is particularly useful on the mobile site.

It's mostly been tested on Nokia devices (N95, N96 and E71) but tell us if you have any problems with your phone, and we'll look at it.

FriendBinder style update

We have updated the style of the site, gone are the various beige and brown colours as are the controls on the friend's menu. We have changed the internal links to blue (from red) and external links are still green (which open in a new window/tab). It's tested and should work in Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE (even IE6) so if you come across any issues please let us in the comments.

We have recently simplified the sign ups to the site so that should be more straight forward and quicker.

You can login in or request an invite at http://friendbinder.com

How Interest Levels work in FriendBinder

Today I'm not going to write about a new feature, but rather a feature we have had from the very beginning. The reason I am going to do this is because two people have been talking about this kind of thing today. Michael Arrington talks about the need for a "Fake Follow" as he calls it. Thomas Hawk talks about a 5 improvements he would like to see in friendfeed of this list number 2 pretty much describes our Interest Levels feature.

So how does our interest levels feature work?
The basic concept is that you give someone a interest level from one to five. People in your interest level 5 might be close friends, girlfriend, husband etc. or just people you want to keep a close track of. Interest level 3 might be acquaintances and less close friends that you sort of follow the noise from. Interest level 1 is probably going to be everyone else that hasn't fit into the above categories. There is of course no reason you have to use your interest levels like this, you could use them anyway you want.

Setting Interest Levels for friends
From the stream you can use the context menu or you can use the friend's edit tab:


If you want to organize all your friend's interest levels you can do this by clicking on the friends button at the top:

Interest Levels aren't the only friend organizing feature we have, you can also use tags as mentioned in a previous post.

We want your feedback, so please post comments or if you want to discuss other aspects of FriendBinder then please use the google group.