The internets are abuzz with news that Facebook added a “blogging” feature.
I just tested it out, and while you can now incorporate your blog into your profile, you can’t do the opposite — there is no output RSS feed for the world to consume your thoughts.
So while the FB devs are busy creating a cleaner, more niche MySpace, the very nature of their operating model (a Walled Garden) prevents this new tool – and its musings – from becoming part of the larger blogosphere corpus.
My closing thoughts: it will probably help increase time logged into the system, as users will be busy writing and reading the notebook entries of their friends. Thus, in the end, their advertisers will benefit in the long-run (more page impressions, more eyeballs and more clicks). Smart business move.
Too bad end-users (those creating the content) won’t be able to directly benefit from the ad revenue.
[...] However, they did not create an output RSS for the end-user, so only people registered with Facebook can read it. [...]
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