The new Facebook is better but not great yet Saturday, March 14, 2009 It seems to me with Facebook Connect, new instant updates, and filtering features that I seem to be phasing out more of the sites I visit and feeds i bring to my RSS reader because much of the information I frequent is beginning to be aggregated on Facebook. Granted, FB is a a lot more restrictive in terms of the feeds you can pull into it but I find it is becoming a mix of tracking what my friends are up to and content from popular personalities that enjoy following.

Everyday I religiously visit a handful of sites - Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Twitter and I feed a handful of blogs into mail. What would be amazing is if I could not only view all of this via Facebook but be able to customize FB to my needs. I would love to be able to build my own compartmentalized homepage on Facebook that allows me to filter my content/feeds onto different portions of the page. The new filtering mechanism on FB is pretty cool but is still a pretty blunt tool. I would love to, in a glance scan everything that interests me in one place and be able to fan out from there.

It would be ideal if you could configure widgets on your homepage for various feeds from within FB and external sources. I imagine my own FB homepage that has my Digg widget in one corner, FB friends and wall updates in another, my favorite blogs in another and of course Twitter. Maybe doing this on FB isn't the answer, maybe someone can build an app that does all this or better yet, a browser. Someone? Anyone?

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home