A Facebook Feed Application for me!

29 December 2007 - By Ahson Rafiq - Filled in Blogging

So I was reading techcrunch and i read about blogfuse, and frankly i love the idea simply adore it!
What better then to give social networks a taste of your feed, ay?

The facebook app is now available on the subscribe page and ready for use and I tested it out and it works perfectly!

I think this is a good way to Diversify Your Feed Readers, and after a few weeks ill have stats to prove it as well, this is my first attempt at a facebook app so wish me luck!

584CommentsA+Facebook+Feed+Application+for+me%212007-12-29+18%3A44%3A24Ahson+Rafiq to “A Facebook Feed Application for me!”

vishnu Says:
December 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I read your blog twice a week…
This is ur better work..
And u can try in many social networking sites…
anant shrivastava Says:
December 31st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
well although its a good feature but i see limited scope of it due to the priceing of it. what they could have done was tro provide basic facilty for free and then cost for advance features.

but they went for different approach
sunken Says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 am
It seems like a good idea. It also seems like it would be screaming for an open source programmer to write something that didn’t cost per month. So you have to wonder if their business plan is long lived.
Jon Daley Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Just saw this article while checking out the logs on the facebook app server. Given that I am the developer who wrote the backend of these facebook applications, I can tell you a little bit about it.

You definitely can write your own facebook app to get your own RSS feed posted to facebook, that’s a relatively easy task. But, the way I see it, the advantages of using blogfuse’s services is that you get new features as they come out without having to do anything. If you wrote/copied your own, you’d have to add new features yourself. Also, you don’t need to worry about the facebook api changes (that seem to happen often, at least for the last couple weeks), or how to get the php code installed, appropriate cache system setup so your host isn’t killed by facebook querying your app too often, etc.

That is what you pay blogfuse to do. So, if you are technically minded enough to write your own app, subscribe to the facebook developer news and keep your app up-to-date then no, I wouldn’t expect you to buy blogfuse’s services. But, if you are a blogger who wants to write content and have it delivered to facebook (and non-facebook users via facebook, ie. more links from servers in other class networks - that was one of the recent API changes) without having to think about it, I think blogfuse’s services are just what you need.
Jon Daley Says:
January 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
(note: I am not part of blogfuse, so I can’t speak for them, I just write code…)