Oooh, New API @ FriendFeed

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 20 Jul, 2009
Oooh, New API @ FriendFeed

Social sharing and networking site Friendfeed (friend to the hyper-connected mind you - see the compete.com data below) announced version 2 of their API is available for beta-testing.

New features include realtime API's (utilize long polling - which allows to emulate information push from a server to a client - to get feeds in real-time), flexible sharing of information (direct message users, share to multiple feeds), file attachments (attach images, PDFs, spreadsheets, etc.), OAuth support and a more simplied response format. Friendfeed provides the HTML for representing entries so developers don't have to construct it.

Documentation is available at https://friendfeed.com/api/documentation. A Python library that implements the new API methods and OAuth support is available at https://friendfeed-api.googlecode.com/files/friendfeed-api-v2-beta1.tar.gz.

Friendfeed has a long way to go to compete with the likes of Twitter. Perhaps this new API will offer some help.

Twitter vs. FriendFeed (June 2009):

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.