Breaking down fences

Today's blog post is not about doing any physical harm to anything, instead it is about how the fences between data and applications are coming down.

First of all the new 0.30.0 version of Tweetdeck is a nice upgrade, as it adds in the ability to update not only your facebook status, but also your facebook page's status. It also provides the ability to see your facebook newsfeeds and wall updates from within Tweetdeck. It has evolved to the point where Tweetdeck integrates with so many different social media sites that updates are now called "Compose Updates" and make no mention of composing tweets.

Secondly, the continuing growth of facebook connect, which gives you access to 15,000 websites using your facebook credentials, making it easy to sign-in to these sites without having to create yet another ID / password. Considering that facebook connect has only been around since December 2008 this kind of growth is amazing.

I need to add a facebook connect option to my blog, but for now you can use one of the other big web user federations, OpenID (your Google ID is also an OpenID) to sign-in and leave your comments about breaking down fences or comment on any of my other blog posts.