Users over at the Wordpress.com hosted blog site just got access to a new Wordpress.com Facebook App that updates your feed every time you post a new entry on your blog. This is a really cool feature, and I find it especially attractive, as I have a Facebook account solely for keeping up with friends from university, but use this site for all my communication with the outside world. I don’t find the Facebook Notes application especially intuitive, and double posting everything to Facebook is not appealing, especially since I use Wordpress categories and Technorati tags to keep things organized.
Unfortunately, this particular app is not available for self-hosted Wordpress installations, like mine, but I decided to Google around and found WordBook, a WP plugin/Facebook app that does the exact same thing. I’m really happy about this, as up till now there’s been a total disconnect between my FB and this blog. The only downside is there’s no way to retroactively go back and put the entire recent history of my posting on Facebook, but I can live with that. Actually, yes, it does, on the profile page. This is even more awesome than originally thought.
(I should point out that one can always use Facebook Notes combined with a blog RSS feed, but this is a very kludgy solution, as Facebook sometimes doesn’t update its RSS feeds for weeks at a time, and it takes several clicks to get to the actual blog entries this way. Entirely too kludgy for my tastes.)
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