Sean Reiser

Just got done listening to the latest FFundercats "emergency chat podcast" discussing the Facebook / FriendFeed merger. Of course there's a lot of fear around this from the community. Will they merge the 2 systems? If I'm only a friendfeed user, will I have to get a facebook account in order to retain all the things I've posted in friendfeed? If they merge the 2 systems will my contacts be merged? Will my Facebook friends be able to see my FriendFeed activity or vice versa? Will I have to become Steven Perez's bunneh vampire?

Last week I attended Dave Winer's roadshow for bootstrapping the RSSCloud. It was an interesting meeting lots of discussion and I think that RSSCloud has some potential. It's always fun being in a room with seasoned pros, young turks and other folks some smarter then you and feeling the energy as these things are discussed.

It's funny to know that as the discussion lately has been around making the web real time (or more appropriately "real-ish time" as someone said in the meeting).

Very rarely do I say this but I've found a film you must see, Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth. I came across the film innocently enough, it was being discussed with William Katt on the Slice of Sci Fi so I acquired myself a copy and sat down this evening to watch it. I was surprised by what I found ... simply the best hour and a half of sci-fi I've seen put to film.

While I'm looking for work I've been playing with the new version friendfeed API and built a module to track mentions of an individual node. If you look at block at the bottom of this post you can see what I'm trying to do. I've managed to recapture some comments about one of my blog posts that I didn't know happened and see some other activity around my posts such as who's bookmarked it, who's shared it on google reader, etc.