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Facebook Lite Is Why They Bought FriendFeed

Source: Kevin's shared items in Google Reader

Sep 11, 2009

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As you must have heard, Facebook Lite has been released in the US. Obviously, the blogosphere is buzzing with the news. The funniest part of the release is that it is so very far from complete. You really cannot modify any of your settings, and a bunch of other things. InsideFacebook has a really good overview of Lite, and they also hint that this is about something bigger:

Although Lite is primarily intended for people with slow internet connections, especially in other countries it also reflects large-scale design changes that Facebook is gradually in the process of making.

If you look at Facebook Lite, you will see that it basically looks like the FriendFeed real-time stream, just with a Facebook skin. There are some other tweaks to the interface as well, and one that I noticed this morning are the notifications. In Facebook Lite, the notifications appear as one of those “blue-gray” (I am “hue-challenged” so forgive my color description) bars at the bottom of the page. So, if people comment or like one of your posts, you will see that notification and you ca

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Mike Trap,

Sep 12, 2009

Makes sense...