Facebook Launches Lifecasting Feature, Auto Imports To Mini-Feed

by Paul Glazowski on April 15th, 2008

If you’re reading this, chances are you have a Facebook profile. You might not spend every waking moment on the network, but you’ve got your own page. And we’re also willing to assume many of you have accounts with other Web services, too. Like Flickr. Or Picasa. Or Del.icio.us, Digg, or Yelp. Heck, maybe all of them, even.

If you count yourself a registree of any of the sites and services mentioned above, Facebook wants to make your life a little easier. The network’s developers have taken the initiative to offer you their own twist on the lifecasting craze (i.e., FriendFeed). Enter, the brand-new option to import stories into your Mini-Feed.

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Now, how important this release is to you depends on how invested you are in any services listed here, sans FriendFeed. But if you’re anything like us here at Mashable, and you’ve got yourself set up to post photos, share bookmarks, vote on stories, and other things that could possibly be of import to your social connections on your personal network(s), this addition to the site is quite a welcome one. It really just makes things a whole lot less hassle when you’re occupied with duties other than, you know, poking people.

Note: Facebook isn’t yet offering a connection to Digg. Only Flickr, Picasa, Del.icio.us, and Yelp are plugged in at the moment. But a Digg option will come soon enough. In the words of Facebook’s Harry Huai Wang, the company “will be adding Digg and other sites in the near future.” So hold tight. The first four active are just the starter set. More choices are to be added.

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