Infobus
I absolutely love FriendFeed.
This is exactly the sort of platform that we need.
I have been talking about a similar thing internally since before Indigo shipped that I termed an Infobus.
The idea is basically the same as FriendFeed save for it is focused on desktop applications as well as Web properties.
It turns out with our wonderful relay technology, this is actually fairly easy to pull off.
Imagine a platform that federated data across both your web and desktop apps — I want people to see my iPhoto pictures just as much as my Flickr pictures.
[...] Tim is explaining in a real-world scenario the exact idea around the “Infobus“. [...]
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[...] fancy technology with a hard to pronounce name that would do just that. Still, several people like Douglas Purdy or Tim Bray have been thinking about something like the following for a year or two now (that’s a [...]
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8 Nov 09 at 03:03
[...] of Google Maps and more importantly, FriendFeed (for which I have professed my affection and wrote FFSync for) fame is now at Facebook (working closely with some of the best Microsoft [...]
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