I suspect most of them that cope with LJ use LJ's RSS syndication.
I have my girlf's LJ feed in my Firefox-based RSS reader, and it shows friends-only posts whenever I'm logged into LJ (which is, by cookie, most of the time).
I'm not actually aware of any issues with this other than the lack of comments.
It would be possible for something to log onto LJ and harvest friends posts and comments, but fiddly due to the differing styles people use. And probably against T&Cs.
However, for the bulk of LJ friends' posts, I prefer to read it within the context of LJ. It is how people expect their writings to be read, and everything makes more sense that way.
For what it's worth, personally I will in future be posting anything public to my own ad-supported website and moving LJ to become much more friends-only and much more ephemeral - possibly even deleting stuff after 60 days.
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Date: 2007-Aug-12, Sunday 09:46 (UTC)Friends List = "group lifestream from your friends".
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http://mashable.com/2007/07/17/social-network-aggregators/
I suspect most of them that cope with LJ use LJ's RSS syndication.
I have my girlf's LJ feed in my Firefox-based RSS reader, and it shows friends-only posts whenever I'm logged into LJ (which is, by cookie, most of the time).
I'm not actually aware of any issues with this other than the lack of comments.
It would be possible for something to log onto LJ and harvest friends posts and comments, but fiddly due to the differing styles people use. And probably against T&Cs.
However, for the bulk of LJ friends' posts, I prefer to read it within the context of LJ. It is how people expect their writings to be read, and everything makes more sense that way.
For what it's worth, personally I will in future be posting anything public to my own ad-supported website and moving LJ to become much more friends-only and much more ephemeral - possibly even deleting stuff after 60 days.