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| By Justin Smith | 5 Comments » |
While some developers have speculated that the upcoming Facebook profile redesign may include in-line commenting and content creation inside the new Feed, Facebook has confirmed to me that this is not part of the upcoming release. All content creation will happen via Facebook’s new “Publisher” (think souped up Wall attachments), not within the Feed itself.
However, like others, I think adding FriendFeed-style commenting (or better yet, a fully-featured Publisher) inside the Feed would facilitate even more constructive communication on the Facebook profile. Many in the tech community have already turned to FriendFeed over blog commenting in many cases because the conversations are more centralized in one place and more private than the open web. Supporting in-line content creation would also be better for application developers because it would allow more scenarios for richer interaction.
If Facebook were to add in-line commenting and content creation to the Feed, would you use it?
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May 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Well put Justin! I think Facebook is making a mistake by not including inline comments in the new Publisher.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
[...] thing missing is FriendFeed style communication in the newsfeed. Justin Smith suggests that there should be FriendFeed style dialog in the profile mini-feed. I would argue that it should [...]
May 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Sure I would use it! I can’t understand why they are not doing it…it is a logical step and I hope that the new publisher will work that way…
May 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
[...] thing missing is FriendFeed style communication in the newsfeed. Justin Smith suggests that there should be FriendFeed style dialog in the profile mini-feed. I would argue that it should [...]
June 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
[...] written before that it’s a no-brainer for Facebook to enable commenting within the Mini Feed. Well, Facebook has confirmed that it will launch in-line Mini Feed comments later [...]