Orkut Getting Facebook-Style News Feed

Search Engine Land points out a post on the Orkut blog that announces a feature rolling out over the next few days. This feature will show you updates from your friends, including pictures and videos they’ve uploaded, changes in status or profile entries, and other things. It’s very much taken from Facebook’s News Feed feature, but that’s not a bad thing.
If you ask me, News Feed is the feature that made Facebook usable, letting you keep track of a large amount of information about everyone without much effort. Without the News Feed, Facebook would be too much work, and the introduction of it no doubt increased growth and utility at Facebook. There’s no reason competitors can’t introduce features invented elsewhere, though the market will gravitate towards those who innovate the most.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg