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March 29, 2008

Adobe AIR Desktop App For FriendFeed Coming

Michael Arrington

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FriendFeed released their API just a few days ago, but third party developers are already scrambling to build on top of the service.

We just heard that Howard/Baines will be releasing an Adobe AIR application for FriendFeed in the next week or so. So far all we have is the screen shot and a confirmation from Baines that his team is working on it. The application will be called Alert Thingy (I assume the site will be here).

If this is anything like Twhirl, an AIR application for Twitter, it’s likely to be a hit. Since it’s AIR it will work on both Windows and Macs right from the start. If the application also allows users to comment on items, post directly to FriendFeed, flag items as “liked,” etc., users will have little need to visit the FriendFeed site directly. And that should be fine with FriendFeed, since users will have persistent interaction with the service on the desktop.

Other early applications built on the FriendFeed API are coming out, too. See this Wordpress plugin and FriendFeed Stats.

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  1. Rajiv

    March 29th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    looks good. will wait for it.

  2. OpenSocialFeed

    March 29th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    Absoutely interesting… expect one with Silverlight soon… :-o

  3. Mathew Ingram

    March 29th, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Great name :-)

  4. Wayne Schulz

    March 29th, 2008 at 6:52 am

    Adobe AIR is cool and apps that are OS independent are the wave. I just don’t know what the business model is for all these free sites. Are they built on spec just hoping that Google (or someone) will buy them out? Heck, maybe that is a new business model..

  5. Abhishek

    March 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    Finally…
    Hope it refreshes and scrolls up as new posts come in.

    Connect with me
    http://friendfeed.com/shekyboy

  6. Michael

    March 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am

    looks cool !

  7. Robin Wauters

    March 29th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Congrats to Howard, he knows how to build great things

  8. Ben Borges

    March 29th, 2008 at 7:56 am

    This is great,i cant wait to try this out

  9. Robert Sanzalone

    March 29th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    OMG! Yep. Those are my tweets. Thanks David!

  10. cvander

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    I love the idea. But in the other hand we’re going to end up running a new bunch of AIR apps in our desktop. Web apps are coming to your hard drive after all ;)

  11. Susan Beebe

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Hey look Robert & David get famous on TC!! congrats your tweets are techie ‘cool’!!! :-)

  12. xxdesmus

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Very cool, looking forward to this app.

  13. You all crack me up

    March 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Yet still no one cares. FriendFeed API is as important to the world as cereal made for people with three testicles.

  14. CARversation.com

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    change to white, you’re using more energy on black background.

  15. Benjamin Golub

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    The FriendFeed Stats link should go to http://www.friendfeedstats.com, thanks!

  16. engtech

    March 30th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    For the Friend Feed fans in the audience: I’ve been hacking away at Greasemonkey scripts to add more features to the service:

    http://internetducttape.com/20.....y-service/
    - Add “filter by service” links to all pages

    http://internetducttape.com/20.....ted-links/
    - Add an integrated Twitter client to the FF homepage:
    - Automatically remove any links you’ve already clicked on:

    http://internetducttape.com/20.....8-scripts/
    - Automatically load the next page when scrolling (pagerization)
    - Increase the number of items per page
    - Add a “reshare this on delicious,digg,stumbleupon,etc” link to every item
    - Automatically expand the “4 more item” links

    I’ve just hacked together a way of importing Xbox 360 played game info into Friend Feed as well.

  17. John Kotsaftis

    April 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 am

    We have launched a friendfeed app at http://www.feedalizr.com - Try it….its different but nice.

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