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About Moopz — Moopz is a new service that brings together conversations about web articles, blog entries, and other web links.  Moopz takes items and comments from FriendFeed and presents them in different ways:

  • Moopz aggregates FriendFeed conversations that are discussing the same link. For example, three different people may share the same link to an interesting story.  Seperate conversations may then arise on each of those items on FriendFeed.  Moopz pulls those conversation (and "Likes") and presents them in a single combined thread.
  • Moopz reduces duplicates.  A web link may appear in multiple items on FriendFeed.  One person may share the link by boomarking it on del.icio.us and someone else may post a link to it on Twitter.  This can result in duplicate links appearing in your FriendFeed.  Moopz combines these into the same thread with aggregated comments.  Subsequent sharings of the link appear as comments in the conversation thread. (And yes, Moopz looks past most tinyurls and other redirect links to determine the target web link).
  • Moopz reduces the noise level. Items appearing on the Moopz home page are limited to items that relate to a web link.  As such, tweets like "I had egg salad again for lunch" won't appear.  Furthermore, only items "active" on FriendFeed appear on the home page, thus effectively hiding items that FriendFeeders are not finding interesting.  Items with no activity appear on the Quiet page.
  • Moopz augments each item with summaries.  Some items on FriendFeed are very short and don't provide much information about the link ("check out this link http:/nourl.to/dfg").  Moopz tries to augement items by displaying a short summary and image (if available) to provide more information.  This is helpful to decide whether to follow the link to read more, or just move on to the next item.
  • Moopz automatically tags items based on semantic analysis.  Moopz tries to automatically tag each item with relevant keywords.  Since FriendFeed items can be very short, Moopz tries to find out more information about the destination web link and uses that information to assign tags.
  • Moopz provides topic-based navigation of conversations.  Use the keyword tags described above, Moopz can filter the conversation based on topics.  Use the Tag Cloud for a full list of topics.
  • Moopz provides a "Popular" list of items most active in the past 24 hours.  The Popular page display the most active conversations in the past 24 hours.  If you want to read the items that are getting the most buzz on FriendFeed, this is the place to go.  The page has a more of a "news page" layout, placing more emphasis on the destination link rather that the person(s) who shared it on FriendFeed.  There is also a feed version of this page, so you can subscribe with your favorite feed reader so you don't miss out on interesting conversations.
You can login with your FriendFeed username and remote key to Like and Comment on Moopz items -- these will appear on the FriendFeed site as well, of course.  There are display options that enable you to hide certain elements of the listings according to your preference.

Note that Moopz does not currently provide a personalized view of items based on your FriendFeed.  Instead, Moopz tries to focus on web and technology links and conversation.  Moopz follows a growing list of conversation-starters in this topic area (if you notice that Moopz is missing some relevant conversations, let me know).  As a bit of a community building experiement, when you login via Moopz for the first time, Moopz will soon subscribe to your feed.  This means that Moopz content will evolve and expand based on people actively using Moopz, which I think could be pretty interesting. That said, a completely personalized experience based on your own FriendFeed home page feed is definitely a consideration for a future version of Moopz.

Questions, comments, suggestions, and conversation are welcome.
Just launched. Read more at http://moopz.com/about - Moopz
Just trying moopz out. http://moopz.com/ - Kenichi Matsumoto
Moopz - Alessandro
very interesting app you got there. - Rob Diana
Moopz - simonpure
Moopz. Where is the search? - simonpure
I will try to get a search box up there sometime today ;) - Moopz
Interesting indeed. Are you reading the entire public feed or just specific users/rooms? - atzmon
One bug I've found: When you type a comment in to the Moopz interface and hit enter, it goes to the next line instead of activating the 'post' button. Confusing. - J. Phil
@atzmon, Moopz tracks specific users and only certain services (the users are the ones that the "Moopz" FF user has subscribed to. The list started with a small list of top conversation starters, but Moopz will subscribe to everyone who logs in via Moopz. To be honest, I am not sure how this approach will work out, but I am intrigued to find out. ;) - Moopz
@J. Phil, thanks for the bug report. I will look into that. I should also try to setup the handy expandy-textarea feature of FF where the comment box gets bigger if your comment is longer than one line... - Moopz
Moopz - Dieter Schwarz
Are you planning to add search features? And can you tell a little bit about the person or people behind moopz? - atzmon
@atzmon, I just added a search feature. I am the person behind Moopz. I do Internet marketing, SEO, Movable Type plugin development and more... - Mark Carey
okay, search box is up and running now... - Mark Carey
Nice site dude! keep rocking. - ani625
Moopz or Mark - I like Moopz. I have tried them all now. I would want a tab that had all the features of Moopz but only looked at my subscriptions. Great work! - Russellreno
BTW I tried search early this morning and it worked well as I recall. The tag cloud is a good addition, but I just proves once again that these sites are 1st tech sites. Instead of the My Friends tab you could do a Food, Music, Celebrity, Politics, Sports tab as an interim step. - Russellreno
Nice one...I always thought that friendfeed had its own inhouse fragmented conversations...can't wait till you make a personalised version, unless FF beat you to it...and conversations by topic make this the new technorati tags (well a machine tag version) - John Tropea
Moopz - Mitchell Tsai
Moopz aggregates FriendFeed conversations that are discussing the same link. - Mitchell Tsai
For example, three different people may share the same link to an interesting story. Seperate conversations may then arise on each of those items on FriendFeed. Moopz pulls those conversation (and "Likes") and presents them in a single combined thread. - Mitchell Tsai
Moopz augments each item with summaries. - Mitchell Tsai
Some items on FriendFeed are very short and don't provide much information about the link ("check out this link http:/nourl.to/dfg"). Moopz tries to augment items by displaying a short summary and image (if available) to provide more information. - Mitchell Tsai
Moopz provides a "Popular" list of items most active in the past 24 hours. - Mitchell Tsai
looks interesting - not personalized but seems to work well around themes of conversations - works off remote key & anything you do there appears back in ff proper - very nice :) - mike "glemak" dunn
I'm still playing with it. Like some features, but the interfaces feels different - like doing the NoiseRiver thing... One thread appeared to be abbreviated (or not quite updated) - the Scoble VC thread from yesterday. But these are just early thoughts. - Mitchell Tsai
agreed on abbreviated - thought it might just be a lag effect based of api velocity - i subscribed to the rss feed in nnw so i can see how it does on iphone - see if popular stuff that i might miss in the normal flow of ff (which i like) bubble up better - noiseriver hasn't been useful for me but i know a lot of folks like it... - mike "glemak" dunn
FriendFeed + Moopz = very, very handy. Thanks, Mr. Tsai - Dave Lovely
I like the kind-of-random hot stories of the day (like Pixdaus.com's rand). Maybe a different mix than FF's built-in best-of? Haven't looked much yet. I'll be waiting to hear what your experience is like when I wake up in the afternoon. :-) G'night mike. - Mitchell Tsai
You're welcome Dave. See this old July 18 thread from Mike Arrington about Moopz http://friendfeed.com/e/92c51934-0fc8-6eee-940f-a0428eeb505a "Moopz comes from developer Mark Carey, the creator of the FriendFeed MovableType plug-in, a bi-directional comment plug-in for FriendFeed and MovableType comments. Moopz is actually powered through MovableType, and largely by that plug-in." - Mitchell Tsai
ok one more cool thing (then i'll stop hijacking your thread mitchell) if you cut & paste a ff title and do a search for it in moopz it'll find the other offshoots - really useful for multiple rss shared items - worked perfectly as far as i can tell - mike "glemak" dunn
Don't worry about hijacking the thread. Most of my conversations are on my Del.icio.us and picture posts, since I don't blog much. FF's cool in that every single post (Blog/Twitter/YouTube/GoogleReader) can become it's own chat room. It's good to hear your tips! - Mitchell Tsai
If they make it personalised, ie your feed with combined articles, that would be excellent - Kol Tregaskes
Much cleaner interface than techmeme. - Tabrez Iqbal
Dear moopz team, my name is alex schulz and i am the designer of the project:" follow up" robotic luggage. I have an urgent request to: please unpublish the project. Here ist he link: http://moopz.com/2008/10/follow-up.html The project was posted on one internet platform and unbulished very quickly. Unfortunatelyothers picked it up from there. the project was an competition entry for a design competition held by a company and has no linking to any real product by the company. As I do not want to cause confusion about the facts I am kindly asking for your help to remove the project. Other bloggers have already been so kind and removed the project and I am hoping for yourquick help. Please unpublish the project. Do not help spreading the project further Thank you very much.. best regards, alex schulz - alex schulz
This is great! - Jacob Rabbie
Cool stuff, I love the idea of how likes are comments, forcing you to discuss. Good way to really auto-fill the documents ;p - Elijah Bailey
You have a script error on moopz when you do search in tags http://moopz.com/tag/amazon - Igor The Troll
Thank you Igor! Now fixed. Unfortunately it looks like the error was there since June 2 .... argh ;) - Moopz
Moopz is FriendFeed's Techmeme :-) I'm liking it. - Miguel Caetano
So My Journalists/News Peeps should weigh in here. Does this MOOPZ service limit the openness of your friendfeed by hearling only what the majority of folks are talking about?, eg. like the 6 o'clock local evening news aggregates what is "hot" topics that appeal to locals? This could be a great simplifier for the newscasters, but also make their content less interesting. - derikp
Moopz, great, that is how you build a good company. Good luck! - Igor The Troll
Derik, since Moopz gathers info from friendfeed, and does not intrude on my personal account, it does not limits the openness of my personal of "my" friendfeed. It *might* serve as a way for non-friendfeed users to consume ff content without the need to join and jump into the stream. - Kevin Sablan
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