Facebook Needs to Open the Newsfeed

FriendFeed has been stealing a lot of attention away from Facebook recently. Facebook easily steal back much of that attention in a relatively short amount of time. They could literally duplicate FriendFeed’s feature set and generate an unfiltered version of their existing newsfeed. Ultimately the newsfeed is theoretically open already since you can post news items via the platform API. With a little bit of hacking you could post your external news items to Facebook.