I am sorry but your article above is not correct! What you describe is the comment process as it was available for many moths or even more (i am a FB member since October) ! Comments on pictures, videos and notes were available as you describe BUT today a completely different comment system was announced...you add comment in the Mini Feed that you find in members profile not in the main newsfeed and you can add it for everything in the minifeed in one single step as in Friendfeed!
Please check it and correct above info!
Brad
· 1 year ago
Yeah - this article is actually wrong. Like Facebook or not, you've just written a review of an old feature, not the one that was released today. Yikes.
Steven Hodson
· 1 year ago
noted and with my apologies but that also shows how much I use Facebook and the fact that the Mini-feed (which took me a while to find) doesn't support any of the services I use on a regular basis.
Again my apologies and I'll fix up the post shortly but the basic premise of the post that this is a *YAWN* feature still holds now that I've found the right thing.
BrianMojo
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I was going to say the same as the above commenters. It's a yawn feature now, yes, but it becomes much more interesting when you factor in the fact that the newsfeed is about to become much more dynamic with the profile overhaul.
Steven Hodson
· 1 year ago
My apologies to the Mashable readers for an error on my part that highlighted an older feature addition instead of the new one. While that doesn't change my overall impression of this newest addition I thank the readers who pointed this out to me and for keeping me on my toes.
chris
· 1 year ago
Maybe I don't get it. What's the problem with spotting a successful tool and applying it in-house??? It would be ignorant of them not to, right?
hater
Steven Hodson
· 1 year ago
I never said if it was a good or bad thing I just said that in my opinion it was a *YAWN* feature.
Gemma
· 1 year ago
I've all but given up on Facebook. There are one or two interesting applications on there but the integration is suspect on many sadly.
Danny R
· 1 year ago
This post is awful.
It sucks to read an article whose author has a prejudice against the subject right off the bat.
It's like an Apple Fanboy writing about a new Microsoft Product.
Steven's mind is clouded.
Facebook playing catch up with the leaders?
Which social networking site came up with a platform first? I don't think it's MySpace or Google (Orkut).
By the way, commenting on something is not exactly a pioneering idea.
grudknows
· 1 year ago
I find friend feed a little clunky (I'm a speed scanner).
In terms of facebook the inbox is the most useful thing - mostly facebook just sucks data from other web services such as del.icio.us, stumbleupon, last.fm, etc making it look like I'm much more active that I am... and enables me to stay in touch with close friends scattered around the globe. In terms of the annoying apps, I'm the queen of application blocking!
I haven't really found an aggregator browse service that I'm really happy with yet - still searching (as my web memberships will attest)!
In terms of the author having a bias, we all have our biases an it was stated so you knew which point of view the author was coming from.
Steven Hodson
· 1 year ago
You'll always know where I am coming from. People may not like my point of view but it will always be my honest thoughts.
Brad
· 1 year ago
Appreciate your correcting the article, Steven. Don't really have a gripe about your opinion of the feature, but was just confounded by the original post about the old one. Appreciate that you're reading/responding to comments too.
Cheers, Brad
Eric Rice
· 1 year ago
The best part of being an early adopter and Friendfeed user et al, is that we've got the micro-commenting practice. Now we can easily wander through the halls of Facebook's comments.
FF certainly helped developed our personal agility in using the mainstream social apps.
Vincent Nicolai
· 1 year ago
The point is, as you mentioned, that e.g. you use friendfeed to get the latest updates and news and stuff like that. you get that stuff form people you probably haven't ever met before, right?
so, that's the point why facebook will never kill friendfeed. friendfeed is about the content - about building vertical networks, building you stream that matches your interest.
facebook is about getting updates of your friends, about their interests - but not necessarily stuff you are interested in.
therefore imo friendfeed is a vertical social network killer. vertical sn are about content of a certain topic - that's why people go there. frienfeed offers every kind of topic-related content and lets you build your own "social network" within frienfeed and share content with others that are as well into this topic.
Just my 2 cents ... :)
Best regards from germany and the friendfeed-clone (the german one): freundenews.de
y? because it's such a great business-model.
Cheers
Vince
Vincent Nicolai
· 1 year ago
edit: another thing is - propbably im totally into the stuff of p. cashmore and want so badly know what he's doing across dozens of websites.
no chance with facebook. because pete wouldn't never ever add me as his friend :(
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I am sorry but your article above is not correct! What you describe is the comment process as it was available for many moths or even more (i am a FB member since October) ! Comments on pictures, videos and notes were available as you describe BUT today a completely different comment system was announced...you add comment in the Mini Feed that you find in members profile not in the main newsfeed and you can add it for everything in the minifeed in one single step as in Friendfeed!
Please check it and correct above info!
Again my apologies and I'll fix up the post shortly but the basic premise of the post that this is a *YAWN* feature still holds now that I've found the right thing.
hater
It sucks to read an article whose author has a prejudice against the subject right off the bat.
It's like an Apple Fanboy writing about a new Microsoft Product.
Steven's mind is clouded.
Facebook playing catch up with the leaders?
Which social networking site came up with a platform first? I don't think it's MySpace or Google (Orkut).
By the way, commenting on something is not exactly a pioneering idea.
In terms of facebook the inbox is the most useful thing - mostly facebook just sucks data from other web services such as del.icio.us, stumbleupon, last.fm, etc making it look like I'm much more active that I am... and enables me to stay in touch with close friends scattered around the globe. In terms of the annoying apps, I'm the queen of application blocking!
I haven't really found an aggregator browse service that I'm really happy with yet - still searching (as my web memberships will attest)!
In terms of the author having a bias, we all have our biases an it was stated so you knew which point of view the author was coming from.
Cheers,
Brad
FF certainly helped developed our personal agility in using the mainstream social apps.
so, that's the point why facebook will never kill friendfeed. friendfeed is about the content - about building vertical networks, building you stream that matches your interest.
facebook is about getting updates of your friends, about their interests - but not necessarily stuff you are interested in.
therefore imo friendfeed is a vertical social network killer. vertical sn are about content of a certain topic - that's why people go there. frienfeed offers every kind of topic-related content and lets you build your own "social network" within frienfeed and share content with others that are as well into this topic.
Just my 2 cents ... :)
Best regards from germany and the friendfeed-clone (the german one): freundenews.de
y? because it's such a great business-model.
Cheers
Vince
another thing is - propbably im totally into the stuff of p. cashmore and want so badly know what he's doing across dozens of websites.
no chance with facebook. because pete wouldn't never ever add me as his friend :(
hehe
cheers