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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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Almost shut it down for the night. Scoble at http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer continues to spark the conversational flame. Philly's own Drew Olanoff( http://www.drewolanoff.com/post/33316454 ) responded to Scoble's comment about hating Twitter. At first I sided with Friendfeed, thinking this was about platform preference. As this dragged on though, I realized how much I love both applications. These are all rss tools, ways to follow and interact with each other in the internet. Polarization takes more time out here. Blu-ray won because of money. Free applications get better but they are still free. There's no need to pick sides when one can have both without any penalties. Any real Web 2.0 business person usaully has Google reader, twitter, an IM client and now Friend feed open just to stay on top of the news. Not just tech news, but world news, politics, sports and local news. Actually I'm visiting websites less because I can use twitter to pick and choose what news site will have the Info I want. Even Comcast customer care is on Twitter (@comcastcares )! Before this year is up, there will be even more sites and programs using rss, ajax and other new technology. I don't want a Do-it-all tool. I like carrying a toolbox full of free stuff :)...