Fooling With Facebook

I have been exploring a bunch of the new stuff on my Facebook account.

Question: Why does Facebook only allow me one blog to be imported? I write three, and they represent different sides of my character. This is a show stopper in the long run. I will move to Jaiku permanently, if they don't fix this flaw.

I like the app integration. Here's the results of a recent question I put up using the "My Questions" app:

Kind of fun. Not as critical as embedding Twitter, maybe, but offers completely new functionality.

What I really want is a Twitterific-type desktop app that takes my Facebook stream, and pops new stuff via Growlr. Or, alternatively, a richer notification system: I can't get notified when new material is posted to a group that I administer, for example.

tags: twitter, facebook, my+question, traffic+and+flow, flow, twitterific

Comments

[Moksh Juneja]

I dont see the Facebook apps very user-firnedly.. probably will neeed to spend some more time to get hold of it

[Stephanie Booth]

FMenu does some of the Growl stuff you want: http://wiki.lensovet.byethost12.com/FMenu

[Minger]

That's as egocentric as Paris Hilton saying jail is a show stopper because it doesn't suit her lifestyle. No one thinks Facebook should be a repository for all facets of one's life, including every RSS feed of all three or thirty blogs. And given Facebook's openness and rate of mutation, the long run is an awfully long time. You -- or anyone else -- dissatisfied with the core functionality of Facebook can author your own module to aggregate multiple feeds. I'll wager that will happen in the near end of the "long run."

[alan p]

Its not just that...if you set up a Group in Facebook you can't import any blogs. I originally wanted to set up Brooadstuff (our blog) as a facebook Group* - but wound up having to do it as a profile simply so I could import our RSS blog output.

* Idea was to import a lot of the blogstreams I like, mash 'em and get a discussion going on 1 bulletin board