Comments on: Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed

By: The Friendfeedization Of Facebook

The Friendfeedization Of Facebook — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:35:35 +0000

[...] still silos most of this information, although they are more than happy to have users bring in third party data to the Facebook feed. This week facebook will also launch their Facebook Connect product, which is [...]

By: Et lenge etterlengtet gjensyn | HenrikWLs tankebøtte

Et lenge etterlengtet gjensyn | HenrikWLs tankebøtte — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:36:24 +0000

[...] hva som skjer i livet ditt. En begrensning som news feeden på Facebook har, er imidlertid at den (foreløpig) er begrenset til Facebook internt. Dedikerte sosiale aggregatorer har ikke denne begrensningen og [...]

By: Facebooks Opens Up Mini-Feed To 3rd Party Services

Facebooks Opens Up Mini-Feed To 3rd Party Services — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:49:07 +0000

[...] we predicted in February, Facebook has opened up the Mini-Feed so users can import updates from other web [...]

By: Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough?

Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough? — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:27:15 +0000

[...] these activity aggregators will also become features of social networks (we know Facebook has plans to make this happen). Where does that leave Ping.fm a year from now? Basically a feature of a [...]

By: FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability

FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:33:04 +0000

[...] is aggregated. That may be right back at the blog for some people. For others it may be Facebook (who understands this fully). Wherever a person considers their home turf is where they’ll want all this [...]

By: FriendFeed, Fragmentation & Access « never sleep

FriendFeed, Fragmentation & Access « never sleep — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:27:45 +0000

[...] shop for their fragmented web presence. FriendFeed faces an uphill battle since Facebook is allowing users to add third-party site info into the newsfeed, and Facebook has the publicity and the massive user [...]

By: Pleasure and Pain — Bookmarks for February 23, 2008 through March 1, 2008

Pleasure and Pain — Bookmarks for February 23, 2008 through March 1, 2008 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:04:09 +0000

[...] Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed - Facebook plans to allow users to add activities from FriendFeed directly into their Facebook news feed. [...]

By: Uno

Uno — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:44:32 +0000

ya, I don’t think I agree with this entirely. How is this any different from apps being able to inject actions into your activity stream? You just don’t need an app anymore?

and…. most apps don’t have their activity hooks thought out properly yet.

By: lion

lion — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:24:54 +0000

“…allowing users to add activities from third party social networking site directly into their Facebook news feed”. The word “allowing” means (in the facebook dictionary) “I will add this feature in your profile without permission until you find the hidden option of deactivating it”.

By: Nels

Nels — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:41:55 +0000

I agree with #33, chris. This is not opening up the News Feed at all. It’s just Facebook allowing you to import more than one RSS feed (they already allow you to import one blog’s RSS feed and post those items to your News Feed). And by not allowing people to have an RSS feed of their News Feed or Mini-Feed, Facebook is just trapping all the RSS data being fed in. The only thing that the services who aredo offer RSS feeds get from this is the ability to have their data imported into Facebook, and sites like Twitter have already built applications that integrate into Facebook and post to the News Feed anyway.

By: startscratch

startscratch — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:11:19 +0000

whis was the next logical step for facebook
http://www. i-gudie .ro

By: chris

chris — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:53:35 +0000

Agree with the harmony guy — chances are facebook is violating a lot of TOUs by collecting, storing, and using user’s credentials for third-party sites. how is this facebook “opening up?” This certainly is NOT an instance of facebook opening up. Instead, it’s an acknowledgement that activity happens elsewhere outside outside of Facebook, and an attempt to bring that stream into Facebook. Opening up would be data portability, or interoperability, or at the very least streaming the News Feed to third-party sites. Quid Pro Quo.

By: Tony Berkman

Tony Berkman — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:54:01 +0000

blogcatalog launched a similar feature last week. http://blog.blogcatalog.com/an.....ely-viral/

By: Sean Ammirati

Sean Ammirati — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:50:13 +0000

This is no good:

“But don’t expect to see a RSS feed or widgets showing what you or your friends are up to any time soon. The data feeds that Facebook opened up last year do not extend to the News Feed.”

Here is a group I created asking FB to make this reciprocal and allow the information to be shared (exported.)

Feel free to join and show your support … http://www.facebook.com/group......amp;ref=mf

By: Memo

Memo — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:10:55 +0000

This is very bad news for friendfeed no??

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:24:40 +0000

Oops - that ‘Jack’ in comment 28 should have been linked to the startup not the day job.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:23:21 +0000

We’ve got this on Lovest.at (bug free by end of play on Monday:) ) and the feed’ll be available via RSS by the end of play Monday. We hope that TC can cover our Social Ads Beacon-buster (http://www.loveth.at) at the same time :)))

By: James Gillmore

James Gillmore — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:11:42 +0000

Honestly, I don’t get why companies have been slow to adopt Beacon. Regardless of the bad-wrap it got, the point was that Beacon was awesome for the right businesses. Maybe not for certain types of stores with the whole: “I bought the kids Christmas Presents and it told all of them, including poor little Timmy, what I got them!” scenario. But, C’mon, while everyone was complaining about that, similar web 2.0 gurus were using it to make money. Not all actions have to go into the feed. You can set it up to do it for specific actions and warn the user. C’mon now!

James
from
FaceySpacey.com, Your One Stop Social Media Shop

By: theharmonyguy

theharmonyguy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:43:39 +0000

Wait a second, stop the tape…

“Users simply tell Facebook what third party services they use the most, along with their credentials or public feed for the site.”

Public feed for a site is one thing, but credentials? Is Facebook going to start storing login information for other sites? Major red flags popping up for me here. Facebook has so far done well with security, but this makes me wary. It’s bad enough that users give out their e-mail passwords for importing contacts… I can see all sorts of problems arising from this new setup.

Yet another argument for something like OpenID/OAuth and for services to provide APIs for accessing data.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:03:52 +0000

This is good… I use Facebook more for a social ring, Plaxo more for my contact ring, and FriendFeed for those who don’t wish to join the social party. And while My FriendFeed app incorporates nicely into my Facebook profile I’d love to replace the New Feed with it… but this idea works just as well…. I still don’t see this as an ‘attack’ on apps like FriendFeed or the others, since it will only be useful for people who use Facebook. For me that is less than a third of the people I share with and for the most part… the other two thirds for the most part refuse to use sites like Facebook/MySpace/Friendster… so the idea that this is aiming at FriendFeed/PlaxoPulse/others…. besides the beautiful part of the web is that there is a place for everybody (almost) and always a niche to fill….

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:57:43 +0000

[...] Facebook news feed, we’ve confirmed. The goal is to centralize all that activity in one place. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/22/facebook-targets-feedfriend [...]

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:47:14 +0000

interesting development. we were just discussing the potential for this at the SNAP Chat panel i moderated on thursday night. dave morin gave no indication this was coming, but it was raised as a likely direction for them.

on the flip side, i was just talking with a startup about how to drive user retention strategies, and in addition to email & RSS, we talked about how feed messages & updates to social networking sites might be a good method to drive retention in the future, as more & more folks got used to the news feed as a primary source of discovery. (the same could be true for FriendFeed if they continue to have success…)

By: aster

aster — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:29:23 +0000

http://www. i-guide .ro
facebook is the best

By: faizal

faizal — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:29:07 +0000

too bad google not buying friendfeed first.

By: faizal

faizal — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:27:35 +0000

they steal my idea! before this i’ve try add my FriendFeed feed into facebook notes, but it will show weird in title like tag. now they want to integrate it. please credit me

when this will be available?