Facebook Begins to Open

Yesterday, Dave Winer reported that Facebook is beginning to open up. It’s true. It actually started happening two days ago. I started receiving notifications on Monday through my Google desktop news alerts notifying me of my friends’ status updates on Facebook. It was pretty cool in that having those alerts intertwined with other news sources made them more like news. Additionally, I realized that my interest in my friends’ updates was equal to my interest in other news stories that didn’t pertain to my friends.