News: Lifecasting Mini-Feed added to Facebook
With social networks getting bigger than ever people are looking for more and more ways to share their life, interest, and experiences. Today Facebook added it’s own take on what has become known as Lifecasting by adding an import function to the mini-feed on Facebook profiles. You may have noticed the small change at the top of your mini-feed, the addition of an import button. When clicked it opens open a menu with the four currently supported sites: Flickr.com the popular choice for sharing digital photos, Del.icio.us which is becoming the way to share bookmarks, Google’s 1gig photo hosting Picasa, and local review site Yelp.com. Digg and Yahoo services are sure to follow.
I am a big fan of Flickr so I just quickly added it to my mini-feed before I popped in here to tell you all about it. It now displays four thumbnail pictures from my Flickr account. It says that I have uploaded 20 pictures the four being displayed seem to be random picks from the last batch of 20 I uploaded on March 24th. I also added my del.icio.us account quickly as wel so I could see how it would turn out and pass it on. It looks fine, it doesn’t update instantainly, or even within minutes of adding to del.icio.us, but it serves it’s purpose. I do not use Yelp or Picasa so please feel leave comments on how those are working. We can be sure that more are coming so what sites would you like to see added to the list?
This raises a question about about how this will impact the independent developers that have been working on application that do things similar to this. If Facebook continues to expand this service as we expect, will developers be able to keep up with new ideas on usage and functions to still be more viable than the official line?
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