A long time ago since I updated this corner of the web. I was busy with many things in life, including changing a whole system of life and upgrading my ideas to other levels of imagination and creativity. According to these profound I find that updating this blog with long posts is not a wise idea.
I tried to search for other ways to communicate with friends over around the world. First I thought of switching to micro-blogging. Services like twitter and identi.ca are a very good solutions for fast updates and sharing stories with nice way to integrate with SMS and other technologies. The problem that all my networks is strongly based on using on gmail :). I tried to find service that can link Google Talk status to identi.ca and then another tool to make the same between identi.ca and this blog [so it can be updated regulary].
I found that the services available nowadays are great by themselves, but they are not integrated too much. I talked with Sinan about how efficient to make an application that link any two web2 applications in the way user wants. One of the problems that this idea may face that there is no clear model of revenue. However, we have to bear in mind that services like twitter and facebook did not have a clear model of revenue for the near past. Moreover, there are many other complications that we have nowadays in the web2 applications; not all terms of use and license agreements are friendly to share content or cooperate with others and these concerns are not new which forced facebook, the largest social network on the web, to open its terms of use and philosophy of management to its users.
Anyway, it seems that making an upper layer that we can bring all services to is a good solution in the time being. FriendFeed is the results of my searches, let us firstly pray for RSS [God bless RSS]. Using RSS FriendFeed can bring all your news and activities in the web in one shot, somehow in the facebook way and open them to all your friends who can comment, share and subscribe to. I can say that it is a more generalized form of micro-blogging and has many similarities with facebook way of thinking. I think FriendFeed is mature to test, has clean interface and less crowded than facebook. I am not sure if I will continue to use FriendFeed for a long time but I can say I am happy with it [at least I can save my Google talk status in a twitter-way]. To subscribe or comment on my life please visit http://friendfeed.com/abosamoor
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