Facebook makes updates available on other social networks.

Facebook has introduced a new personalized Mini-Feed update service. Now users can watch updates from other web-resources: Flickr, Picassa, Yelp and Delicious.



According to the information published in the company's blog, users will only need to click on the desired link at the top of the updates window to view data from other social networks. This data will be displayed not only in the user's profile, but also in the News Feeds of his friends. In the near future, it is expected that Digg will be added to the number of available services.



While this feature is a direct threat to FriendFeed and other similar services that collect and compile information from social networks, Facebook still does not facilitate access to information about updates from its website. For updates (Mini-Feed and News Feed) have not yet created an RSS feed, although there are already links to other updates.

It would be reasonable for Facebook to declare this information confidential (who knows who your personal data will be available to, if the service is available via RSS). But FriendFeed had already outpaced them by adding special tags to their RSS feeds.

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Technically, Facebook is not the first time opening its own channels of information exchange for third-party companies. The infamous Beacon project also allows web services to send updates, but it requires the active assistance of third-party companies themselves. With these additions, services such as Flickr are not required to participate in the sharing of data on Facebook - consumers are given the opportunity to make the choice themselves.



Recently, News Feed has become a topic for newspaper headlines, because the service, in fact, is access to the history of user activities. As far as we know, this controversial issue has not been resolved.