websurfing diaries

I added a Lifestreaming plugin to my blog recently and as I was entering the feed urls of the various Web 2.0 sites I am participating, I stumbled upon the Facebook problem.
Since its last change, the old mini-feed feed has disappeared, so one has to reassemble it by its components.
I was particularly interested in the Noted Feed, the Links feed and the Status feed.

Why?

Well, the notes is the facebook blogging.

Notes
Although I rarely use it, it can occassionaly contain some thoughts that are posted nowhere else.

By clicking to the notes tab in your profile (hoping you have added the tab to your profile), you get on the right side a column which, at the lower part has the notes feed. Like this:

The structure of the url is as follows:
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notes.php?id=&viewer=&key=&format=rss20

Links

The Links feed is essentialy the feed of all the sharing activity in facebook, so it is a must to include in a lifestream. Working as with notes we can find it at a similar place.
The structure of the url is as follows:
http://apps.facebook.com/feeds/share_posts.php?id=&viewer=&key=&format=rss20

Status
Last, the Status feed is the most important one, especially if no cross posting is taking place on your Facebook Wall, as it comprises of all the original thoughts and situations you share in Facebook.
But where is this feed located?
As much I have searched I could not find it.

So after discussing this in twitter, from the responses I realized that the structure of the statuses feed url must be the same with other two feed.

First guess: replace notes.php with status.php and ... voila, it works!
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=&viewer=&key=&format=rss20

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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:08:10 -0700

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Tethering through a Nokia N95 phone

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:55:00 -0700

I am 'locked' up today in my mother's house, which, quite unsurprisingly, does not have internet access. One option is to steal my way to the net through a neighbors' open wifi. Not without some odd problems though: I can open my Gmail in https, send and receive mail as normal, I can browse pages in https (where supported), I can use a twitter desktop client, I can use twitter through (you guessed) https, but every other simple web page request through http fails!

But problems can make one creative! Having encountered the same situation before, this time I came prepared. I had preset my MacBook Air and N95 for tethering and I could surf the web with no restrictions. Well, almost, as my data plan isn't for heavy use (it's just a quarter of a Gb per month) .

How ?

You'll need a USB cable.

Connect Phone to Mac and select PC Suite on the phone.

Make setting as the pictures below

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One can achieve the same without a USB cable (through Bluetooth) but I did not try it, as bluetooth drains phone batter all to quickly.

The above settings are specific for my provider, but you can get an idea how it would work with yours. A tip: do not confuse the APN (Access point name, with the connection name on your phone). Open your connection (the one you use to connect to the internet) and see the APN name there.

Leave a comment if you have tried this on a different provider.

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