FriendFeed would be launching the Realtime API for developers to make use of the RealTime data in their apps. FriendFeed has now launched one feature after another in a steady stream in an effort to catch up with Twitter. Is it working is yet not so apparent, but Steve Gillmor thinks that it is actually making a difference:
The tortoise may be closing in on the hare. Where Twitter seems to stabilize by removing features, Friendfeed is gaining rapidly by carefully adding features that each in turn build on the preceding one. First Aggregation, then Rooms, Friend Lists, and now Realtime APIs. Friendfeed needs to improve its user acquisition functionality to harvest the fruits of the realtime conversations they are now making possible. Twhirl proves useful for following new people when they pop up in conversation, and the first service to integrate Follows and Track over realtime IM or an embeddable surrogate will quickly grab at least a strategic corner of this new information router console.
[via TechCrunchIT]
