Facebook Smackdown

Facebook Developers | Facebook Developers News: "Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service."

Whoa, Godzilla noises all around. Set Techmeme on stun.

The Social Platform PR Wars Continue: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect

* Thur May 8: MySpace announces its “Data Availability” initiative, whereby it will share public user profile data with partner sites like Yahoo, eBay, and Twitter.
* Fri May 9: Facebook announces its “Facebook Connect” initiative, which will let third party developers access Facebook user profile and friend data.
* Mon May 12: Google announces its “Friend Connect” initiative, which will let users do much of the same thing through an OAuth/OpenID/OpenSocial system administered by Google.

via Facebook Developers News. Seems like the first time that I've gotten news from the primary source in months.

FriendFeed is back

Paul Buchheit - FriendFeed: "“FriendFeed is back and should be completely caught up in a couple of hours. Sorry for the trouble.”"

Wow, FriendFeed really *is* the new Twitter. - ⓞnor

Funny that I saw all of the down messages on Friendfeed via rss and not in twitter.

Google Reader

Official Google Reader Blog: Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.: "Share items with a note - If you are like me, you might want to share something in Reader"

gReader now has 'share with note' which is a great idea but the cartoon bubble on the web landing page has got to go.

And a new bookmarklet (not the forgotten old Google Share bookmarklet) that feeds into the gReader stream, only what you highlight, though, and you have to allow javascript on the page that you clip. Now I have to figure which to use, Friendfeed, Social|Median, gShare, or bloglines ...

Also: I Am a Google Reader Shared Links Ninja

via Friendfeed RSS Post to Google Reader

Shyftr OMPL

OPML Support Is Here! - Shyftr Blog: "You can now import an OPML file or export your Shyftr feed list as an OPML file."

Whoa, you can go from a person's profile to their feeds, to reading their feeds in the usual interface and really easily subscribing (you have to backtrack to sort them, though). You have to enter feed edit mode to sort into folders, but, you can then edit feed title, description, and add multiple tags all of which show nicely on the reading header. View tagged feeds shows a tag cloud, clicking a tag shows matching feeds which can be clicked on to read. An implementation much stronger than folders.

Oh, and yet another bookmarklet which seems quite good at subscribing to yet another feed.

The ui is growing on me.

ashton @ shyftr and a pocket blog

via RSS feed of a Twitter follow of the TechMeme Firehose to Louis Gray: Shyftr Adds OPML Support

BlogRize

Went in a fine circle to find BlogRize this evening. A RSSmeme feed of links from FriendFeed follows spit out a ReadWriteWeb story with an invite code. Which is certainly a roundabout way to get to a story that could have come through the RWW feed into gReader ...

After poking around for a while looking for the 'submit story' bookmarklet or form, I got turned back around to Louis Gray who had quoted "BlogRize is today's news, filtered by communities of people who enjoy reading the same blogs.' BlogRize tracks items from two sources - a person's blog, and their Google Reader shared items."

Ah! A blog's feed augmented with community gReader shares. Just so. Now, where are the rss feeds coming out of it (just to make everything quite circular).

ashton @ BlogRize