I'm gonna be more careful which sites I give my FF credentials to. - Hao Chen

Good for Gridjit to respond so quickly, but bad that it happened at all. At least this time it wasn't a malicious source. Who knows how long it will take for that to change? It seems like these new services start out as so much fun and then it doesn't take long for spammers and others to start taking shortcuts and it really cuts in to the value for all the rest of us.We are all in uncharted territory with Social Media and people need to be careful when choosing what sites to add to FF or other social sites. - Brenda Young

To be fair gridjit is in alpha so teething troubles are to be expected and I guess it was only people testing the gidjit service that were involved. Ray also followed up real quick and let everyone know personally what had happened which I'm sure was the first some people had heard of it. Does make you think about the API process though - Jon Dillon

Thanks, Jon. Of course, I was very upset that this happened but Gridjit is better now for it. Also, it does point to the strength of the remote key system that FriendFeed chose for their API and the professionalism of their team. I wish other services provided similar services (like OAuth, etc.) for access to their APIs. - Ray Grieselhuber

There may well come a time when it is necessary to lock down the API and require developers to be issued unique unlock keys, so that any spamming or other malicious activity can be tracked and shut down promptly. - Sir Slippy of Slippington

@SlippyLane many services do require a unique key already. FriendFeed just happens to not be one of them. The worst part is that if you have a logic bug when using the API (probably the issue with Gridjit) it can do things like multiple repeated posts. Hopefully, people give them a chance. - Rob Diana