FriendFeed
March 30th, 2008
FriendFeed is a search engine for the personal data and they are on a roll this month.
- They went open beta. By default supporting 28+ 3rd party sites. The idea is they login with your account credentials and scrape info off of your account so you have a centralized data store that is friendfeed.com.
- They added search capability on their site.
- They are exposing the API.
- People are definitely watching the site and talking about them from interesting perspectives.
The biggest concern here is the security/privacy of personal information. Stuff like digg.com feeds and flickr feeds are harmless, but gmail / gtalk chat transcript is the one where I went “hm, they can keep track of my chats?”
People are scared of the fact that Internet owns much of their personal information. When people are already having an issue trusting a single site to keep their information secure, how can they trust an information aggregation site to stay proactive about not exposing their private information?
