FriendFeed is launching version 2 of their API for beta testing today, adding a plethora of new features for developers to work with. We’ve written in the past that FriendFeed has long been in the driver’s seat for experimentation for social media and today’s announcement reinforces that thought.
With the new version of FriendFeed’s API, developers can replicate that real time stream feeling, direct message users from other apps/sites, and add file attachments. Developers can now add the never-ending stream of updates as a user interface feature, and the API supports “long polling” to be able to speed up how fast feeds show up in the stream.
The API also allows for OAuth support and simplifies an application’s response format. So a third-party application doesn’t really need to know the difference between a user and groups or how a “friend of friend” works in the interface. FriendFeed provides the HTML for representing entries so developers don’t have to construct it. Authenticated responses include a list of possible commands on every feed, entry, and comment so developers don’t have to recreate it.
FriendFeed recently made search results real-time and has a few more real-time goodies in store for the site, including, track for topics (it already has it for people and groups).
To think that in reality Google employees made FriendFeed. Google really has a nak for employing real superb talent.
Google does have a special skill of hiring great talent.
so true.
FriendFeed is excellent in its implementation and functionality. They definately know how to engineer. They’ve been out engineering Twitter since the beginning. Twitter has a hard time adding even the most basic functionality(kinda sad). The real-time web would be much further along if the friendfeed guys were only the ones with the 30 million user base.
+1
FF – Catcher in the Rye
T’rr – Macbeth
if FF was any less simpler , it would be twitter. 30 mil user base , well , you can go to number so fast only when IQ below 109 get it in a breeze
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Love FriendFeed. Maybe Twitter can learn a few things from them.
Good article. But I’d like to cast my vote for all of us to stop using the word “goodness” in this way. What was once fresh, now grates.
Love that they have long poll support to the API. Cant get more real time than that.
I really like friendfeed, but I don’t know anyone on it.
If they at least had a way to use the API’s of other services, and aggregate all of my friends messages from the same sites (Facebook.last.fm, etc), whether or not they were on friendfeed, that would be awesome.
I still wonder if TechCrunch will be properly back in FriendFeed after deleting their account…. http://friendfe....com/techcrunch This account says this: “Mike, if you want this account back, DM me. Or something.” … I assume Brett own this now.
No one uses friendfeed.
It is over so please stop talking about them.
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