The main problem w/ watching one's friends on a different danga service through your flist is that you don't get their flocked posts (or even indication that they made a flcoked post.)
And the reason this doesn't happen is because the syndicated feed you make on the journaling service is not authenticated, and the reason it is not authenticated, at least in part, is because syndicated feed urls are public and, the way authenticated rss is usually done now, would include your password. Also, the journaling site caches the feed itself, for a short period. And I thought there had been some discussion on the list about how to work around these things, but if so, it hasn't been transferred to the wiki. Does anyone remember such conversations taking place and can point me to them? Or, if someone's working on the issue now and wants to talk about it, I'd love to hear current thinking. If the answer is that thinking hasn't got very far :) , there are a couple of online feedreaders that support authenticated feeds. Googlereader is not one of them. I've been told that netvibes and newsgator both do. P.S. I ask because I think that better cross-site flocking is the* real*killer app of getting people to switch, even more than WTF. Although, I do understand that lots of unique and unrepeated feeds might make it the * memory/bandwitdth* kiling app, too. --zvi
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