FriendFeed API announced
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I've been talking with the folks at FriendFeed about APIs and such, and boy do they move fast. I got the first draft of the API spec on Friday, and today it's out there. 
http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
Here's the blog post announcing the API.
Glue for the OPML Editor will ship soon, delayed a bit by tomorrow's press event at Mozilla in Mountain View.
FriendFeed will be supported in my software in all the places Pownce is.
There's a lot of movement in the TwitterSphere these days. I was hoping that the FriendFeed API would be a clone of the Twitter API. It's not. But it is workable and exposes features, including Payloads that are not implemented by Twitter.
Next question is how scalable FriendFeed is.
I'm going to visit with them in Mountain View tomorrow.
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