Social Median Making The Wheel Better

There are a thousand websites/programs out there that all do the exact same thing. Nowadays the thing to do is to gather all of your favorite info sites via rss feeds and mash them into one site. Google reader is probably the most popular place for that as well as RSSMEME. Now, after you've organized your stuff there, say you came across Netvibes or Newsgator. What do you do next? Shuffle between these three sites? No, you go to Readburner and mash the three together.
This is the future folks. With companies opening up their software via "API", imitation isn't the thing to do, adding to the original software is what's hot! Take for example Friendfeed. Great place blah blah blah we know that , but how do we use it on our phone? Try fftogo. OK, how about adding stuff to it via instant messaging? Here: http://www.mojipage.com/ . Well what if you want to "tweak" and use apml on friendfeed? Use Noiseriver for that. I won't go into it because Louis Gray already did that. My point today is to highlight how imitation is not really the highest form of flattery. Finding a way to make someone's software even better is the coolest thing! Thank WEB 2.0 for that...

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I've really learned a lot from Friend feed this week. Not from the software, but from the intelligent conversations. This app/website has filled my void. I love Twitter and Pownce and every other web based Short Message System too. But on Friend Feed (FF), I'm actually part of the conversation. It gives you the options to like a post,comment or even link to it like this: http://friendfeed.com/bwana . I think I found my new vice,I haven't checked my Google Reader in days!