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Old school reporting was about doing a lot of work and then passing informed judgement. So, I think this was a little im/pre-mature. What I've decided, having

Old school reporting was about doing a lot of work and then passing informed judgement. So, I think this was a little im/pre-mature. What I've decided, having used FriendFeed for a while, is that the direction everyone needs this to go is a standards-based feature of the feed-producing platforms themselves. Having to go to FriendFeed to see what my friends are doing in a site which should incorporate the other sites is akward and annoying. I'm not ragging on FriendFeed. I like that they're tackling this. But signing up for Facebook, then Flickr, then signing up for FriendFeed and telling FriendFeed that I use Facebook and then Flickr and then adding the FriendFeed app to Facebook and not being able to do it to Flickr is just dumb. Hopefully FriendFeed or something like it can become a de-centralized value add of any serious social network, based on an open standard, while not losing the ability to import or fake friendships for the other 75% of users. One day, I would like to add a friend on Twitter and have Twitter ask me if I'd also like to friend her on Facebook, Flickr and [insert x here], since we both use both services.

codesurgeon 19y ago
I don't really mind that I can't interconnect all of my webservices/online personas, i.e. in the sense of all n services being connected with the remaining (n-1). This does not seem to make a lot of sense for most of those. What I would like to be able to do is interact with the services via a central location such as ff - not just consume/aggregate. Along those lines, the ff team has included a "feedback channel" (i.e. easy replying) for twitter which serves the purpose very well. If they'd do the same for comments on flickr, disqus, youtube (you get the idea) accounts, I'd be even happier. Their service would allow for some sort of two-way centralized communication that would save me from touring all of the respective sites for even the most mundane tasks. In general, I agree with you on openness and standards but can't say that I'd be currently missing them WRT this domain/application.

codesurgeon 19y ago

I don't really mind that I can't interconnect all of my webservices/online personas, i.e. in the sense of all n services being connected with the remaining (n-1). This does not seem to make a lot of sense for most of those. What I would like to be able to do is interact with the services via a central location such as ff - not just consume/aggregate. Along those lines, the ff team has included a "feedback channel" (i.e. easy replying) for twitter which serves the purpose very well. If they'd do the same for comments on flickr, disqus, youtube (you get the idea) accounts, I'd be even happier. Their service would allow for some sort of two-way centralized communication that would save me from touring all of the respective sites for even the most mundane tasks. In general, I agree with you on openness and standards but can't say that I'd be currently missing them WRT this domain/application.