Comments on: FriendFeed Duplication via Mashing http://thingelstad.com/friendfeed-duplication-via-mashing/ Jamie Thingelstad's personal blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lou Paglia http://thingelstad.com/friendfeed-duplication-via-mashing/#comment-1016 Lou Paglia Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashthing.com/friendfeed-duplication-via-mashing/#comment-1016 yes, it jumped out to me fairly quickly after paying attention to my own feed(s) aggregation, that my tweets were duping because Tumblr was echoing them. And it only took that long because I pay much closer attention to the feeds of others than my own. For now, I think it is going to be on each individual contributor to self-monitor as to whether they are having the same thing happen. De-duplication is simple when your goal is to remove exact matches. But more challenging when you are doing it with fuzzy logic or "like" matching. De-duping in this case may introduce additional challenges. For example, will Tumblr or any other service come out with features to wrap around an imported Tweet where I need to have them fed in? And if so, do I not take advantage to avoid the dupe? Or worse yet, does FriendFeed make the decision to remove the echo at their application level thereby removing any chance of the new feature showing itself inside the FriendFeed environment? yes, it jumped out to me fairly quickly after paying attention to my own feed(s) aggregation, that my tweets were duping because Tumblr was echoing them. And it only took that long because I pay much closer attention to the feeds of others than my own.

For now, I think it is going to be on each individual contributor to self-monitor as to whether they are having the same thing happen.

De-duplication is simple when your goal is to remove exact matches. But more challenging when you are doing it with fuzzy logic or “like” matching. De-duping in this case may introduce additional challenges.

For example, will Tumblr or any other service come out with features to wrap around an imported Tweet where I need to have them fed in? And if so, do I not take advantage to avoid the dupe? Or worse yet, does FriendFeed make the decision to remove the echo at their application level thereby removing any chance of the new feature showing itself inside the FriendFeed environment?

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