I am really loving the new Facebook LIVE Feed. I think Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor had something to do with that :) Thanks guys, it looks really awesome. FB feed is highly useful now; much better engagement, relevancy and the photos rock, too! Wondering if this will keep FriendFeeders like Robert Scoble, Louis Gray, Jesse Stay, Dave Winer, MG...
It will. Already it has become 5x more interesting because now it's not just a copy of Twitter that I'm seeing.
- Robert Scoble
I'm slowly removing those that are just importing Twitter over to Facebook from my FriendFeed favorites and I'm now tracking them over on Facebook.
- Jesse Stay
Robert - yep, I agree with you there. FB is now much more interesting for sure
- Susan Beebe
Funny how, at least to a UK sensibility, 'tracking' sounds like 'stalking'..
- Andy Connell
Nothing really new about it - Facebook has had the Live tab on the homepage for 18 months.
- Jamie
Jamie, it was removed back in March. They're bringing that back, and adding the "Hide" drop-downs that the previous feed had back to it.
- Jesse Stay
It wasnt removed - they actually just improved it in March and made it the default, pushing the old style static feed to the Highlights section on the right. The Live feed update in March added the network and application filters so you could see a live feed by family, colleagues etc. I have little doubt the FF folks have had input into this release though... because it basically mimics the Live/Best of Day feel of FF.
- Jamie
I sat next to Paul Buchheit yesterday and he said the FriendFeed team had nothing to do with it. But he likes it too.
- Robert Scoble
Now can you make Facebook give one a way of linking content back out of facebook? I'm sofa king sick of people posing movies in their facebook feed and I can't then link anyone to it, other than people on facebook.
- Matthew DeVries
Jamie, my feed never automatically updated after March. I had to click a link to get it to refresh. Yeah, it gave me the number of new posts, but it didn't automatically update. Maybe you were on a beta test of some sort?
- Jesse Stay
I think I'm starting to understand. The Live Feed gives you everything that happens, in reverse chronological order, and you have the option to set filters on it. That's great. But when you log in you land on News Feed, which choses stuff for you, and in unexplainably non-chronological order. You have no power to adjust this? Ack - this smells like potential manipulation/advertising or something.
- Michael Slattery