foodfeed is a service that helps you sharing your eating habits with everyone, from anywhere. Just be sure mom doesn’t get your feed.

Sensacional produtinho criado e desenvolvido pelo meu amigo Vitor Lourenço. Utilizando a api do Twitter, a idéia do FoodFeed é compartilhar seus hábitos alimentares com o mundo e, porque não, conseguir ter uma visão geral das porcarias que anda comendo no dia-a-dia. Mais uma vez parabéns ao Kid pela ótima idéia e pela qualidade do projeto!

The killer app for any social network is its users, not its developer API. No one joins a social network so they can rate movies, or turn their friends into zombies, or declare allegiance to their favorite sports club. The reason most people join social networks is because their friends are already there, all that other stuff just enhances their experience once they’re in. Users are what make social networks go. (..) Facebook still has the two killer features of any successful social network: users and a good experience. - Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb

É esperar para ver! Será que o OpenSocial não vai interferir no crescimento do Facebook?

Uma nova ferramenta será lançada nessa quinta-feira pelo Google, o Open Social - um projeto ousado que visa ser uma API social aberta à toda internet. O projeto compete diretamente com o Facebook e inclui parceiros como Orkut (do próprio Google), LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Flixster, RockYou, e Slide.

Open Social is very practical. Many standards die an early death because they are too complicated and hard to implement. Open Social is what you want in a standard — it’s expansive enough to do useful things, but limited enough to be very easy to implement, both for containers and for apps. (..) Is based entirely on Javascript. If you know HTML and Javascript today, you will be able to immediately use Open Social to turn your web applications and web sites into Open Social apps. This is very, very good for the web. Open Social is the kind of standard that web developers love, and can easily use.

Mais detalhes:
Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday

Update:
Open Social: screencast and screenshots
The web is better when it’s social
MySpace and Google Join Forces to Launch Open Platform for Social Application Development