Yesterday, Facebook conducted a press event where they previewed changes they are making to their service. Details can be found here. All of the major tech blogs have communicated their take on the announcement. AllFacebook just posted an entry that tries to straighten out "the wide-range of semi-accurate reporting taking place".
I am not one to say whether the reporting has been accurate or not but I do feel that everybody is missing the boat on one of the important implications of the new Facebook features. If you take the new version of what used to be called Pages and combine that with the new real-time nature of News Feed, you have an RSS-like capability for the masses. Now, media organizations, like CNN and NY Times, will have their own mini-feed and they will be constantly making status updates with their latest headlines. So if users "friend" these organizations, they will be able to see the headlines stream through their News Feed in real time. Nice.
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This begins to address one of the gaps in Facebook - the rest of the internet was missing...but I wonder if it dilutes the social aspect that is the core of Facebook's brand? I kind of like that FB is just friends and content friends suggest.
I think your point is a good one, Chris. However, for people who have never used RSS feeds and/or Twitter, having this real time "news feed", in the literal sense of the phrase, might be appealing. People, like you, who want to keep their "news feed" focused on friends, don't have to do anything to keep things that way (unless you have previously "fan'd" media sites).
I've never been a big fan of Facebook.
Dude, you totally did call it. Good work.
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