Google Shared Items on Facebook

Posted on August 9, 2007
Filed Under Cool toys, Fun on the Web, Web 2.0 stuff, Website Tools

I found a new app for Facebook the other day thanks to The Scobleizer, but it doesn’t do quite what I want it to.

Google Shared Items is a great little app that sits on your Facebook profile and lets people know what you’ve been reading in Google Reader. That’s all well and good but you have to manually share the items in the first place. What I’d like to be able to do is automatically share anything I post here and on Gaming Moments (which reminds me I must get the tech boys over there to add the twitter plugin to the blog, anything that spreads the word, right?)

Google reader lets you do this quite easily, you tag the feeds you want to share under a separate tag (eg. Shared) and then in the Tags tab in your google reader settings you click the little share icon next to it and presto you’ve got a feed built from all the feeds in that tag/folder.

Then you hit the problem, the Facebook app doesn’t seem to share folders, only items.

So, to get around this I thought there must be something that lets you display a feed on your Facebook profile, I was right, up to a point. There are supposedly three apps for facebook which allow you to display a feed on your profile they are Feeds, Feed Invasion, and My RSS.

Feeds doesn’t work, and someone should get around to deleting it from the available applications on Facebook.
Feed Invasion also doesn’t work, and only displays one feed
myRSS does but has formatting issues. It takes up too much space and the headlines’ font size is too big. Nothing that can’t be fixed though.

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