Independent Tools are the Keys to the Web

Dave Winer’s posts on using his experiment with Twitter as the basis of a ‘personal Friend Feed’ is an intriguing concept.

In short, you grab the RSS feeds of your friends blogs, squish them together, and push that to a Twitter channel (Winer is using FriendsOfDave) to get a little push style feed of your friends content.

While you could probably replicate this using a number of online services, I think the beauty of this is that it belongs to Winer – or to anyone who uses this concept, as I fully expect the source code to be released at some point. I think the only thing that could make this more interesting is the tools to make it fully independent of third party services, and that would be to hook it up to a Laconica based server (update, I see that Winer has this up and running now as well… perfect).

As technology becomes more and more like magic, it’s important that we all remain as close to Level 60 technomages as possible.