A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API, social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool.
The best thing about the new notes tool may be that users can syndicate the full contents of other blogs elsewhere onto their Facebook page and individual imported entries can be commented on in Facebook. Blog posts, or notes as the company prefers they are called, can be tagged and commented on. When notes posts are tagged with another user’s name that entry is delivered to the user in question. This is how Facebook photos work as well. Notes can also be posted by mobile phone. Privacy options in notes appear typical of the rest of the site. Users can view their friends’ notes from inside their notes dashboard.
We tested the notes feature and found that, much to our chagrin, we were unable to embed a Paris Hilton video from YouTube in Facebook. Javascript can’t be used either, but the notes will interpret some HTML.
It looks to me like Facebook is catching up with the state of the art, but with its own unique twist. As Liz Gannes at Gigaom points out, the company says that notes pages are not blogs “because then you’d be a blogger.” Oh, the indignity!
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I have some screen shots of the notes feature for anyone that doesn’t have a FB account.
Facebook notes screen shots
I don’t mind all these additions, as long as they don’t give facebook users the ability to edit the look of their page. RSS is definately a must to be useful, not only for this but other features of facebook.
: ) J EJE
Hey, this feature rocks! Facebook is way better than bloated myspace…
Anyone on the facebook iTunes group can now also download 25 full length featured songs for free every Monday from now until 9/30.
I’m looking forward to the other new features that facebook are going to launch in the next few days. The addition of notes comes at a time where Facebook attrition was definitely becoming a threat. The addition of the developer ecosystem and the mashups coming out of that is also adding to the new variety of the facebook experience.
See http://www.faceradar.com - a hot or not mashup for facebook
This is what happenes when you corner 85% of the market - you stop being inovative
I have to say, I just signed up for facebook for the first time… the whole thing is total crap… for starters the signup process is a total pain.. way too much validation.. second.. its so generic.. the pages are boring.. no customization at all.. well i guess thats just what facebook is.. personally… i dont like it. and their blog.. wow… they made a.. *drum roll* …. blog
(and techcrunch.. whats up with all these errors esablishing DB connection.. c’mon)
@Cragi/@EP it sounds like you guys probably aren’t college students. For the same reason I don’t understand MySpace (because my friends don’t use it), you won’t understand FB. Now of course that isn’t your fault, but rather FB’s - especially if they want a broad userbase. I’m sure someday you’ll get it.
Wow. Good to see that all that funding is being used to build incredible new features. This is pretty cutting-edge.
Figured it’d be sooner or late before they hopped on board with every other site on the face of the earth which has a blogging system of some kind. I decided to test it out but I wasn’t able to get my blog to import correctly. Granted I did code my blog from scratch but the XML feed I have is standards compliant so you’d think it’d work fine… Guess Facebook hasn’t gotten all the kinks worked out.
I personally LOVE Facebook because it has a purpose (for College students atleast) unlike MySpace (besides linking up with friends) - You add your classes to Facebook with the CRN numbers and then you can see who is in your class and chat with them regarding assignments, homework, study groups, etc.
Regarding the Facebook sign up process may be lengthly but I don’t mind the extra steps because it keeps out people that don’t belong.
* For High School members, Someone from your high school must invite you, to prove you indeed know someone, or attend that school.
* For College members, you must have an e-mail address from that higher education school ending in .edu
* For Corporate members, you must have an e-mail address for that company in which you’re trying to join.
Also in regards to customizing Facebook, I’m glad that they don’t give you the option to add music, use CSS to change make the background pink and text where you can’t read it, or to add videos. This keeps every user’s profile looking the same no matter where you on the site, I love that.
Yes…I love the feature.. Awesome
But what about the security issues, now I can import anyone’s blog into my notes page and call it MY BLOG?
Facebook has a clean interface, and fortunately no way to “customize” it with babe backgrounds and Comic Sans text, what retards like “Cragi” would do.
I actually like the fact that Facebook doesnt let you go crazy. Looking at most myspace sites, its impossible to learn or see anything. With facebook, you usually can see right what you are looking for, and I also feel that the networking model itself is a little bit better. I started using this feature already, mainly to pull in my wordpress blog. Im thinking about doing something with that API as well, just not sure yet.
Is it possible to change my background on Facebook as it is on MySpace??? I love my MySpace background and I had to use al sorts of complicated methods to do it and I was wondering if there was such a secret or method to Facebook?- Julia
Hey, this feature amazing. Facebook is better than FS
This is what happenes when you corner 85% of the market - you stop being inovative
Can someone help me with a facebook question. I have a blog that was started recently and would like to place it (or the link) on my facebook. How is that done?
Thanks
hi, I can help you
tolong dong gm ya caranya nambahin face book ke blog????
tolong kasi tau dunkz gmana caranya pake facebook d blogging???