Comments on: Facebook's news feed: The beginning of a recommendations dominated web

By: Bill Moran

Bill Moran — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:06:41 +0000

I’m not entirely convinced that this was to create a new feature set. There’s an interesting by-product of what’s happened here. Most people have moved to the “Live Feed” because the “News Feed” is too limiting. This has caused everyone to see who everyone else is adding as their friend, and, with that, they’ve added them as well.

It has created more bonds between people already on the site and hence creates a stronger desire to bring in friends who aren’t already on it as well. I don’t think they’ll see an enormous user spike out of this, but it’s a solid step towards ubiquity.

By: WD

WD — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:06:50 +0000

You can switch to the “old view”. Select the Live Feed and use Firefox with some add-on’s:

http://weaxdesign.com/blog/2009/10/28/remove-is-attending-became-fan-joined-group-and-now-friends-messages-from-facebook/

By: Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:01:40 +0000

@Paul – I’m not sure that I believe that there’s a divorce between “solving problems” and “big stuff”. I think few innovations are created in the absence of a pain-point. And I also disagree that being boring is the opposite of being disruptive — in fact, I’d say the opposite — the destiny of any disruptive technology is to become boring as it becomes a part of the fabric of the technology landscape. Search is boring. It’s also essential.

By: Paul Woods

Paul Woods — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:52:19 +0000

What you call “Big Stuff” I’d call fixing the current problem. It’s kind of like a TV network moving a show with poor ratings out of the prime time slot to make way for something new. Eventually “Recommendations” will bore us and then what? Figure that out and you’ll be on the edge of “Big Stuff”.