You can now use Backtype to import your News.YC comments on FriendFeed | Hacker News Reader

You can now use Backtype to import your News.YC comments on FriendFeed

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This is why I love Hacker News. :)

Lead Developer of Gmail Paul Buchheit? He's here.

CEO of a startup reviewed? He's here. (TimeSvr)

News algorithm about social news sites? delicious.com founder joshu corrects the article. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234749)

The community here is just excellent.

Couldn't agree more!

Looking to integrate this service into my blog now.

As an update to this, Backtype integrated perfectly but I had to make some minor faux hacks in the db for the visuals to work properly. The only minor glitch I see is that Backtype isn't parsing character spacing or line breaks properly.

http://colinanawaty.com

Our feeds contain html, so if you're stripping you'll have to put in your own formatting.

Site looks great btw.

Prediction: By this time next year, gmail will no longer be the primary app people associate with Paul Buchheit.

I hope Paul and company also try to build an app that will serve the entire humanity and not just the small clique of technology geeks

FriendFeed is for everybody: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-09-05

"... use backtype to import your new.yc comments ..."

I tried it and it works a treat now I can ditch my search.yc feed. There are so many of hackernews feeds around I'm not sure quite who to thank... news.yc, search.yc, friendfeed, backtype?

Thanks Paul! You can also use it to import your comments made on thousands of blogs :)

I have been really impressed with everything coming out of Backtype, keep it up you guys are doing some amazing work.

They were easily two of the most talented developers in our batch. Their production rate/output is absolutely astronomically. As one of their beta testers, they've had major features & requests pushed out zero day before.

Thanks for an easy way to let my friends know when I comment on stuff here :)

Indeed, I had some problems setting up backtype (my coworkers link to our blog as well) but I think they were fixed after I entered my actual name. It would be great if backtype made that option stand out better in UI as well allow me to filter using more than 1 name, other than that the service has been coming together very nicely since its launch.