This has been an interesting several days in the lifestreaming space. Just about every day, there's been an interesting take, opinion, or newly debuted feature for one of the major lifestreaming services. Yesterday, it was the long awaited first answer to comment fragmentation. Today it is the major announcement of the FriendFeed API, a debut that's being widely hailed by just about every blogger as the second coming of Oprah Winfrey.
I have to say, for all the attention and hyperbole that is likely to be heaped onto to this release, I'll admit here that most of it is likely to be justified. FriendFeed is positioned to have it's Facebook Dev Platform/Twitter moment here. And like we discussed the other day (and briefly mentioned earlier today), with the Twitter update, the conversation fragmentation issue had begun to be solved. With the API release, that problem is completely fixed.
Under the API, very handy feed widgets like what RSSMeme released the other day that counted all the Google Reader shares of a blog post, FriendFeed comment counts and even feeds of the conversation can theoretically be embedded within blog posts, and created as additions to the normal cavalcade of feeds available from your typical blog.
Last week two of the four FriendFeed founders, Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor stopped by Mashable Conversations and talked about the launch of search for the service, as well as a bit about the API and conversation fragmentation memes that have been running around as well. It was a great conversation, and it's been hard sitting on it and not boasting of it for the past week, so enjoy!
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
