Not content to simply unveil a kick-ass iPhone version of the site today, FriendFeed also let it be known that embedded mp3 audio files can now be played from directly within FriendFeed as well. (The feature has actually been quietly rolled out for a few days.)

This is awesome, especially for podcasts, but one service that still does not play nice with this is Muxtape. That's because its RSS feeds don't actually contain an embedded version of the song and are only the title as far as I can tell.

Muxtape and FriendFeed: What do we have to do to get such functionality? It seems like such a no-brainer, being able to like and comment on songs from Muxtapes your friends upload. Not to mention you can have some great music to listen to while you use FriendFeed.

FriendFeed has seemingly been exploding in popularity recently. It's making my statements from December look good:

"I really like FriendFeed and quite frankly I'm a little surprised that more of the 'regulars', those tech users who seem to be on every service, either don't use it or don't talk about it often."

They're heeeerrreee...

And:

"I'd be surprised if FriendFeed doesn't catch on in 2008."

It's happening before our eyes.

Likewise my thought from early October of last year that maybe Google would have been smarter to buy FriendFeed rather than Jaiku seems like a pretty good one. Seriously, does anyone use Jaiku regularly now?