Facebook isn’t just planning to test a universal currency on the web but continues to roll out new features alike. It has made alerts more real time by making them pop above your chat box. These notifications include your friends updating their status or liking an item. While this sounds quite real timish, I personally don’t opine for having it, simply because those notifications can be a real distraction, especially given the fact that many of them might be those which you never want to know about.
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[...] Meanwhile, a small detour for Microsoft and Facebook. Microsoft claimed recently that its going to become “more disruptive in search.” Facebook recently opened its stream API but also cut off the RSS feed for the updates. I used to make use of it in at least a couple of places. It also acknowledged Indian users by making itself available in 6 Indian languages. I wonder where Facebook figures in these search battles. Does the opening of the stream API mean that we will soon have a real time status search mechanism? But how useful will that be when a lot of users prefer to keep their profiles walled (like FB itself)? But its interesting to note that many geeks also auto update their FB statuses with their twitter ones thanks to many available services. FB is quite an aggregator too, in its own way, so I wonder if we’ll get to see a search that shows Twitter + FB statuses, and the videos, pages, shared links and comments content on FB. Meanwhile, on real time, alerts now happen as pop ups. [...]