Facebook Says It's Not Testing a Feed Aggregator
Since Facebook’s design team posted some before-and-after screenshots of today’s design tweaks, there has been some speculation about the existence of an “Outside World” News Feed filter that has a labs-style icon. Could Facebook be testing a FriendFeed-style feed aggregator so that users could consume any web content inside the Facebook stream?
Facebook says that is not the case.
“Outside World is a News Feed filter just for Facebook employees that shows only non-Facebook employees in your stream,” a Facebook spokesperson tells us.
Facebook has never made RSS reader-like functionality directly available inside Facebook, but when the company acquired FriendFeed a couple weeks ago, it was clear that the companies are thinking similarly about sharing.
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