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Google has added a feature to its Buzz API that publishes every activity as it happens in a single feed.
On the social web, this is commonly called a “Firehose” — a syndication feed that publishes all public activities as they happen in one big, fat stream. It’s a lot to sift through, but app developers [...]

Today, Google has announced the launch of the Google Buzz firehose, which will give developers access to all public activity published on Buzz via a single feed with real-time PubSubHubBub syndication.Google said the firehose was their most-requested…. [...]
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Today, Yahoo is releasing a new service: Firehose, a real-time, searchable index of social content aggregated from around the web.Accessible via YQL, Yahoo’s SQL-like query language, the Firehose will gather data from status updates, user ratings and reviews, comment threads, Google Buzz, Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm and a range of other sites and apps, [...]