The best way to get a sense of where the Buzz API is heading is to take a look at http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/. You'll notice that the "coming soon" section mentions a ton of protocols—Activity Streams, Atom, AtomPub, MediaRSS, WebFinger, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, OAuth, XFN, etc.

Great blog post. It's not about your friends, it's about their content.

visualizing a lifestream as a city instead of a 'river of news'

Today there seems to be a new distribution model that is emerging. One that is based on people’s ability to publically syndicate and distribute messages — aka content — in an open manner. This has been a part of the internet since day one — yet now its emerging in a different form — it's not pages, it's streams, its social and so its syndication. The tools serve to produce, consume, amplify and filter the stream.

The talk about the inevitable death of newspapers seems to have heated up in recent weeks. Overall, there seems to be a resignation setting in about their demise.

I am ready to launch my Lifestreaming experiment… and I need your help. Video Introduction to the MOBhat social identity faceting service.

We want to create a platform where this data is open to the user. A platform where they can use this data whenever, wherever, and however they want. Breaking down barriers between the data providers, and the user is not our only goal, but we also want to bring you a platform which goes above and beyond what the others offer. Allowing you to group and tweak your feeds (which are being relabled as sources) to your hearts desire.

An interesting social networking site. It did a great job of guessing who I was on various sites.

Thanks to Mark and LIfestream blog for picking up my Sketch of OFace screencast.

New Screencast about "OFace", an experiment in social identity faceting on top of FriendFeed. Check it out and give me feedback. I'll be looking for peeps as I get closer to having a working service. Although it isn't mentioned in the video, this is powered by a (half) built php app, a ubiquity script, and FriendFeed's backend.

Slife is compared to hooeey