Saturday

Facebook adds more feeds to MiniFeed. FriendFeed is dead?

  FriendFeed got it’s mojo by learning from Facebook’s    extremely popular news feed functionality. Now Facebook getting it’s revenge. One feed at a time, Facebook is adding more feed power in it’s database.  

Today Facebook Facebook product manager, Peter, announced on his blog that Facebook can now  import activity from YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader in addition to Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us.

This is a big step for Facebook and will go a long way in making Facebook one stop for all friend’s updates. Most importantly it will avoid running out to small sites, which keep popping up nowadays, and leverage investments we have made in Facebook.

Rest of the world, which increasingly matters, has now moved happily into Facebook and Myspace feed world. There is a small group of bloggers who are still throwing around half-baked theories on how FriendFeed is a next Google. It’s a good feed aggregator but to call it “next this” or “next that” is a big stretch.