Favtapeis another new mixtape creation site, but its standout feature is its automation process, which creates a mixtape based off songs you've listened to onPandora, or those you've favorited onLast.fm. Provide Favtape with your Pandora URL or your Last.fm username, and a mixtape will automatically be created for you with a unique URL that can be accessed anytime.

Just to get this out of the way right from the start– I am a big fan ofFriendFeed. It is one of the primary tools I use every day as a blogger. It is a tool that I would sorely miss if it ever went away for whatever reason. That said I don't think that FriendFeed as it is now will ever make it past being an excellent niche service and into the eyes of the mainstream Web user.

Fresh on the heels of rolling out the public beta for itsnewly designed homepage and user profiles, Facebook has issued a new set of policies for application developers, many of which are related specifically to the site changes.

Can a phone kill an industry? What's Qik offering, now that they're in public beta? These are the questions we tackle on today's Mashable Conversations.  Sean and I were both intrigued by the fervor and discussion generated around my recent editorial on whether I thought theiPhone would kill terrestrial radio. The response to the article was thunderous and inconclusive.  Just as many folks thought that I was right as thought that terrestrial radio has done a decent enough job of killing itself.

It's a popular topic, too.  This weekend's Elite Tech News show focused on this topic as well for a good portion of the program, and most of the panel disagreed with me on my hypothesis, though for a number of reasons ranging fromLouis Gray's opinion that no technology ever truly kills another toSteven Hodson's proposition that mobile smartphone technology will never be truly ubiquitous.

Sean and I spend a good deal of time hashing out the various thesii put forth here and there before taking some time out to speak with Qik co-founder Bhaskar Roy about today's launch of Qik into open beta status.

He told us about a number of new upgrades that come out with this version of the service, including what was most exciting to us, a number of new distribution partners.  As we've talked about before, CoverItLive now supports Qik (amongst a number of other live streaming ser