A great interview with the founder of SocialThing!, one of two competing “lifestreaming” services. In short, services that collect and interact with information on all the different services available to you on the web.

Check it out here.

With recent moves by FriendFeed to open up its API, it’s clear that the application, developed by former Google programmers, is taking a direct shot to become an integral social tool for the web.  This threatens Facebook, MySpace and even the traditional concept of a social network.

Eventually, we may see a feed oriented web supplanted by either OpenID or perhaps a Google sign-in first.  Only time will tell how FF and Twitter progress.

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