Following up on the most successful live streaming event for Facebook ever, the Presidential Inauguration, CNN and Facebook have partnered once again, this time it’s for Michael Jackson’s memorial. The two are not the exclusive providers of the streaming event but it will clearly be a big event especially for Facebook users as Michael Jackson is now the most popular person on the site.
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Last night Facebook announced a new Live Feed implementation which connects E! Online, Variety, Bollywood sites Zoom and Saavn for the Oscars, and numerous other sites. The new implementation is similar to previous implementations that we saw with CNN, TNT, and Israeli news station Nana10. There’s one core difference with this implementation, which is that the same feed is accessible across multiple sites.
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If you logged in to the CNN Live inauguration with Facebook integration yesterday, you were exposed to a live feed of all of your friends updates. Facebook currently enables users to view live status updates from within the Facebook homepage but there is no other way to view it. One creative reader, David-Benjamin Brakha, has come up with an easy way to add the CNN Live Feed widget to your sidebar in Firefox and view the streaming feed no matter what site you’ve visited to.
This widget is extremely useful and provides a lot of the functionality included in applications like Twhirl, TweetDeck, and other similar Twitter clients. Rather than reply to users on Twitter, you can now respond directly to your Facebook friends who are updating their status. Interestingly you can also still view a live feed of all the users statuses who used the CNN Live tool on inauguration day. Here’s a step by step how-to on how to embed the Live Feed widget within your Firefox sidebar:
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