Facebook gets into the feed of feeds business
Not to be outdone by Friend Feed and many others like Merge Lab who have been making a lot of noise by enabling users to get a "feed of feeds" for all of the sites they participate in --> i.e. one news feed containing all of your friend's updates from facebook, twitter, flickr, etc., Facebook started to roll out their own version today.
As noted on the Facebook blog:
Also interesting that they don't include Twitter. Is it because they see Twitter as more of a direct threat? It has been estimated that Twitter updates account for a large amount of the activity on Friend Feed to-date.
As noted on the Facebook blog:
Notably, Facebook only offers a few of the largest sites to start and there is no API for sites to add themselves to the list. There's also no way to take the facebook mini feed to go via RSS.Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren't Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes mean a lot of switching around for your friends, and it can make it harder for them to discover the very best of your content. With that in mind, we've introduced a way for you to import activity from other sites into your Mini-Feed (and into your friends' News Feeds).
The option to import stories from other sites can be found via the small "Import" link at the top of your Mini-Feed. Only a few sites--Flickr, Yelp, Picasa, and del.icio.us--are available for importing at the moment, but we'll be adding Digg and other sites in the near future. These stories will look just like any other Mini-Feed stories, and will hopefully increase your ability to share information with the people you care about.
Also interesting that they don't include Twitter. Is it because they see Twitter as more of a direct threat? It has been estimated that Twitter updates account for a large amount of the activity on Friend Feed to-date.
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