Last month, Friendfeed launched publicly with the announcement that they had $5m of funding. They're a social aggregator, feeding in stories from your different social tools, e.g. Twitter, Flickr, Delicious etc. However, they have the added ability for comments and discussions to be started about any of the individual posts.
It had a lot of fanfare and created dedicated fans among the blogosphere because of the value of some of the conversations taking place.
However, as Techrunch reported a couple of weeks ago, Facebook are opening up their newsfeed to allow external sites (such as Twitter, Flickr and Delicious) access, essentially making it the same service as Friendfeed, with the added value that not only are all your friends already on Facebook, but also that Facebook have developed an advanced algorithm for picking and choosing stories to ensure they're relevant to you, rather than delivering everything in the newsfeed - and you can still get everything from a person in their mini-feed if you want.
Of course, Facebook hasn't announced that they're adding comments into this... but, wait a minute - they have announced a new profile layout, with a single big page which combines the wall and the mini-feed into one, big feed: put them together and you're going to be able to comment directly after stories coming in on your friends mini-feed. Of course, this isn't quite as advanced as Friendfeed, but then the new profile page isn't fully confirmed yet, and they could well go the whole hog.
If they do, this would certainly make the existence of friend feed almost entirely pointless for most Facebook users. What do you think?
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