“groovy mother...”

I usually don’t much care for FriendFeed, but I have to say that I’m impressed with their implementation of an XMPP bot — especially since the folks at Twitter suggested this week that such a large scale bot is impossible.

Great post by Merlin, particularly for this description of why I can’t be arsed with the hype about Friendfeed: “On a site like FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists — and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur — this is a major breakthrough in the makebelieve friendship space”