Prediction: By this time next year, gmail will no longer be the primary app people associate with Paul Buchheit.

I hope Paul and company also try to build an app that will serve the entire humanity and not just the small clique of technology geeks

FriendFeed is for everybody: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-09-05

Couldn't agree more!

Looking to integrate this service into my blog now.

As an update to this, Backtype integrated perfectly but I had to make some minor faux hacks in the db for the visuals to work properly. The only minor glitch I see is that Backtype isn't parsing character spacing or line breaks properly.

http://colinanawaty.com

Our feeds contain html, so if you're stripping you'll have to put in your own formatting.

Site looks great btw.