Jealous of Taylor’s recent gig as a guest poster, I decided to accept an open call for contributors made by Sarah Perez for her excellent blog sarahintampa.com. Sarah regularly blogs for ReadWriteWeb — one of the preeminent resources for technology news and analysis on the web . Thanks to Sarah for letting me jump in!
My guest post talks about how FriendFeed is going to encounter enormous, if not deadly, pressure from the recently launched Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect initiatives.
Facebook and Google realize that people are tired of filling out profile after profile, uploading user picture after user picture, connecting to friend after friend… on site after site after site. In “the real world”, we have one social graph of our friends and one identity. Both are centrally located in our brain. We block and expose different facets of our identity to different parts of our graph. This is how the web should, and will, work. Google and Facebook want to be our digital, social brains. [...] When you visit a website, you’ll no longer have to create your identity — Facebook or Google will load it for you. You’ll be able to concentrate on leveraging your identity in the context of the website you’re visiting and the services it provides.
What does that have to do with FriendFeed? Well you’ll have to head to Sarah’s blog to find out!
Nice work on the guest post! Wow, the discussion that ensued over that! I’m not totally drinking the FF Kool-Aid myself, so I’m happy to present another viewpoint about it. I enjoy FF quite a bit, but am not *obsessed* just yet.
I know! Check it out! I knew the outcry from the FF community would be extensive and fierce, haha. Here’s to controversy and conversation…