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  • 4 Aug 2007
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    Sky launches showbiz news app for Facebook

    A very smart move by Sky: they’ve launched a Facebook app which pulls in a news feed (with pics) from its showbiz news website. Very nice ajax-y pagination within it, too. Not the first RSS-to-Facebook app I’ve seen, but certainly the most ‘mainstream’. I refer my honourable readers to the posting I made some weeks ago: Facebook as a friendlier environment for consuming RSS?

    No sign of anything official coming from the BBC… but 2,300 people are using an unofficial tool instead. Sounds like a respectable number – but it pales in comparison with stupid stuff like that Zombies app, which has a startling 2.35m users.

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    1. mel starrs
      5 Aug 2007

      So why is RSS so ‘unfriendly’? Why do the mainstream not use it? This question confounds me as I am totally dependent upon it and get very annoyed when websites DON’T have RSS feeds. I have long suspected that it something to do with having 2 apps open. If Outlook had RSS on the same screen (or indeed Gmail or Hotmail did) then it might become more ‘usable’? Or is it something else?

    2. Sky News joins Facebook « I’m Simon Dickson.
      9 Aug 2007

      […] News joins Facebook Published August 9th, 2007 skynews Hot on the heels of their showbiz-only app comes a full-on Sky News Facebook app. I still like the idea of RSS-to-Facebook, but to be honest, […]

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