Yesterday I posted about an interesting trick that could be used to view your live feed from within a Firefox sidebar. The trick was pretty useful in that I didn’t have to navigate to Facebook to view my feed anymore. Within a short period of time, Facebook effectively disabled the widget, making the trick a simple short term tool.
The tool illustrated a lot of the potential that I see in the company competing directly with Twitter though. I can understand why Facebook disabled direct access to the widget though. The primary reason being that using the widget within your sidebar removed the impressions to CNN’s site. I don’t think it was a good decision though. CNN would have received more exposure every time someone updated their status.
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