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NewsGator launches new Facebook app, NewsFriends
The NewsFriends Facebook application is a social news application that allows users to select friends and automatically check out the news they are reading. If you don't know what news is hot amongst friends, NewsFriends has a list of popular topics picked by NewsGator editors for popular sources of feeds in entertainment, sports, and top news. Current stories are displayed on profile pages, and news can be read, shared and commented on right in your profile from a single page. If there are video or audio feeds, they will play inside the NewsFriends application.
Will anything be left on the web? Are we slowly destroying the internet by building everything into the monster that Facebook is becoming?

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Jof Arnold said 3:56AM on 8-29-2007
Hi Chris, we've a similar app called Blog Friends that filters feeds by your likes/dislikes and social network. It already has a great following from bloggers and non-bloggers - including a good handful of the Technorati Top 100 - who use it to discover new stories and make new blog friends.
Don't worry though, you don't have to stay in facebook to us it: your Blog Friends feed can be read in your feed reeder of choice.
Find out why our users are saying it's their "favorite facebook app" at http://apps.facebook.com/blogfriends
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