[WebPub] Facebook's New NewsFeed: A Big Shot Fired in War Against Information Overload

[Lars Hasselblad Torres]

Enormously weird way for a network to go, because its defeats the  
purpose of a healthy news ecology eg enable users to break out of the  
echo chamber. I noticed the look yesterday, but hadn't read up on the  
approach. Does anyone have data on number of users who "like"/favorite  
content on facebook? The only ways its going to work well IMHO is if  
alot more users "like" a lot more content, so that a few busy users  
don't drive silly content.

Thanks for sharing, Lisa!
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On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Lisa C Mayer wrote:

> How It Works
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> The new News Feed view is based on an algorithm that scores every  
> update coming in through what's now called the Live Feed. That  
> scoring is based on the number of "likes" and comments an item has  
> received and how much you personally have interacted with the  
> update's author in the past.
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> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_facebook_newsfeed_filters.php
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