What does @loic think of the new FriendFeed 2.0 API?

by Robert Scoble on July 20, 2009

I’m not a developer, but I can still read an API spec and I’m still excited in what I’m seeing from the just announced FriendFeed 2.0 API. I wonder what real developers, like those who build Twitter apps like Seesmic, TweetDeck, PeopleBrowsr think. Dave Winer started a conversation about the API here.

What is cool? FriendFeed now has the ability to track the geo location of an item.

Why is that cool? All the coolest iPhone apps now are doing this augmented reality thing with the compass in the new iPhone 3GS and Android phones (here’s an example of that being used to show restaurants near you). Imagine if you could point your iPhone down the street and see real time posts spraying on your screen from people around you. Now developers could build that kind of app.

Anyway, I wonder what Loic (at Seesmic) or Jodee (at PeopleBrowsr) or Ian (at TweetDeck) think about this new API. Does it get them more interested in building in FriendFeed support?

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  • 1) Write a fantastic set of utilities with your API
    2) Developers drool all over imagining wielding it like a lightsabre in a watermelon field
    3) profit

    I believe I now understand friendfeed's clever monetization plan.
  • Wow, this is really great stuff FriendFeed is pumping out of their API... woo hoo!

    @SusanBeebe
    http://susanbeebe.com
  • looks cool we will try to do something with it :)
  • I'm definitely excited about the new FriendFeed API additions. What's almost more important to me than the items you mention above, Scoble, is that the new API shows me what operations are valid for any user in my feed. For example, when I look at you in my new home API feed, I see that I can unsubscribe from you or send you a direct message.

    Why's this a big deal? It means that I can now build a mobile FriendFeed client that you, Zee, or Kol can actually use. Before this, a mobile client would have to download its user's entire subscription list in order to determine the relationship between that user and another arbitrary user on the system. This is critical in order to properly present a user interface around subscribing and unsubscribing.

    Your entire list of subscriptions is 3.5 megabytes, which is intolerably large for mobile devices where they must update this data every time the app starts up.

    I'm excited, to say the least.

    Aaron
  • I love it. Have long been waiting for it. I'd like to see Atebits integrate FriendFeed to Tweetie (iPhone and Mac).
  • shooby
    Robert,

    Why don't you (for once) contribute and suggest an open API for social networks.

    No way for you to make a buck at that?

    Spike "Look at my bike, its got tassels!"
    Spikes Mom "but it doesn't have wheels"
    Spike "but if it DID they'd look cool"
    Bill Gates "Wheels are extra with bikes and you got to use Microsoft AIR 2.0"
    Robert "What's in it for me?"
    Spike "Look I just invented tassels 2.0, check out the API"
    Spikes mom "but it doesn't have users"
    Bill Gates "That's easy just spend a couple million of that overpriced software profit on NBC, call them Decision tassels"
    Robert "What's in it for me?"
    Roberts Mom "Now Robby, you dont always have to be the one holding the crayon box, play nice"

    (not actual dialog, but within the realm of probability)

    xx00

    shooby
  • paulkinlan
    I personally think the new API is an excellent leap forward, especially the oauth (seamless) and the realtime methods. FriendBoo was built pretty quickly with the new API and I will be updating FriendDeck to suit soon.
  • peteaustin
    Be careful of what you imagine. When the iPhone audience thinks of things "spraying on your screen from people around you", their needs are slightly more humorous and, er, pungent.
  • Few minutes ago I read on mashable about TweetMondo, about finding tweeter users near your location. Whast hapening? Maybe now all popular services trying to develop this feature?
  • François Legrand
    Loic a developer? Are you kidding? He's an IT entrepreneur, but he really doesn't know much about the technical aspects of IT.
  • dogu32
    en güzel günler sizin olsun gencler!!pek bişi anlamadım turk olduğumdan dolayı ama kesin güzeldir.
  • larry
    It seems that you are no longer interested in blogging.
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