Comments on: Facebook wants you to do it live

Site adds new bells and whistles into the "stream"--extra privacy controls and embeddable streaming status-update widgets for developers and site owners.

[monkeyfun14]

Nice story.

[monkeyfun14]

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[Collin1000]

Best summary of the new feature I have read yet... and the title (assuming it is a bill-o pun) made me chuckle.

[cvaldes1831]

It sounds like they're going about it the wrong way.

Developers need to stop focusing on "web browser on a desktop PC" and switch to the mobile device worldview. That's where all the action is. Smartphones (iPhone, Palm, Blackberry) and Internet-capable PMPs like the iPod touch. Many of this planet's inhabitants run their lives around the cellphones (like Japan) and the more powerful these handheld devices become, the less people will be spending in front of a computer.

I've already seen it myself and I fired up my first web browser in 1993 (NCSA Mosaic on a SGI box). I am spending *far* less time in front of a computer these days; my MacBook has left the house twice since Apple activated their App Store last summer.

The future is in the palm of your hand. Web developers *must* understand this if their ideas are to have widespread acceptance.

[theMetz]

It's about time Facebook finally added a feature for outbound content syndication to the social web. For more information on how your marketing and operations teams can use this as part of your strategy, get in touch.

[Inconnux]

cnet is a facebook propaganda division

[nickchhan]

Nice summary of the live stream, thanks Caroline

[akirandres]

hopefully some day, they will collaborate. Like letting Twitter be the status maker for facebook's profiles.

[V2Blast]

You can do that yourself.

This is awesome, it shows Facebooks young team of developers is always thinking with the times and sometimes actually paving the way for new ideas and technology. I for one look forward to it's integration and I'm already thinking of all the ways it can help grow the reach for my Full Impact Studios Dallas Web Design business.

Twitter should possibly be scared of this integration as well..

[calculatorwatch]

Holy ****, the idea of sharing things only to certain friend groups so that people could post things they wouldn't want their facebook-using relatives finding out about (and for other reasons but mostly that one) was totally something i suggested via facebook's "suggest a feature" a couple months or so ago
of course, it's a logical enough feature that someone else probly thought of it first but still, i didn't think it would actually get implemented especially so soon, pretty cool

[hmdz105]

Why don't we have Twitter in Facebook? It could be nice to update our twitters from the inside of our Facebook pages.

[ender21]

But that'd be like launching Windows from inside Mac OS X..... oh wait a minute....

[krizhek]

there's an app for that

[Loud_spkr]

Nice article, however is it Twitter or TenM3 type "live content". Do you get to share only text live or is it live visual feeds of you or the event etc. Is this like a jetson's live video call provided the facebook user permits the call to come thru ?? Does it compete with Gmails video email chat ?