As announced last week on the WordPress blog, a WordPress application is now available which allows WordPress to be embedded within Facebook (and thanks to my colleague Nitin Parmar for giving me details of the Photo Matt announcement).
The application can be primarily regarded as an interface to WordPress embedded within Facebook, although one aspect of the integration with the Facebook’s social network is the ability to see WordPress blogs provided by your friends (as illustrated).
Although it could well be argued that this provides little benefit for users (especially experienced users) it could also be argued that users may welcome the way in which their popular application can be integrated within a common environment. And many of the 135 responses (to date) to the initial announcement seem to be very positive, with the application getting a four-star rating from the FaceReviews Web site.
My view is that we need to gain evidence of whether this approach will appeal to users – and the best way of gathering evidence is to carry out the experiments.
I think I’m right in saying that if someone views your blog from within Facebook and comments on an entry, that comment will only appear in the Facebook version – which may be a pain in that author’s would need to check two places, and comments wouldn’y aggregate.
Hi Roddy
Yes, this can be a feature of having a blog which is aggregated in multiple locations. The Co-comments software may held in some cases, but not necessarily everywhere.
Yes I’ve recently discovered this too. Are you on facebook Brian?
Hi Lynn, Yes here’s a link to my Facebook profile.
I didn’t know facebook could do that, I’mma check it out
Nice feature they have there. Too bad im a little too old for facebook.