How to Bring Some FriendFeed Love to Facebook

As every other FriendFeeder out there, I wanted to start the slow and painful migration from FriendFeed to Facebook (ironically FriendFeed staffers are moving as well) and of course, it’s been a rocky ride so far. I don’t feel quite as home, and the lack of real time kills me at times, but I wanted to share with you how I’ve managed to make an initial comfortable nest on the new tree.

The first thing you want to do is start to add FriendFeed friends over at Facebook. You can start with Kol Tregaske’s list and then you will start seeing familiar faces on each one of those profiles (make sure to join my page as well, as I’ll be actively posting notes that don’t make it to this blog).

The second thing you might want to do is add the FriendFeed application on Facebook. Now this sounds very easy, but it’s not, so here’s the step by step (and please note that there might be unnecessary steps, but like Voodoo, you don’t want to mess up with the process that you know works).

First add the Facebook application by clicking this link.

Then go to your Settings > Application Settings > FriendFeed > Additional permissions and make sure you tick on the “Publish to streams” option. You should see something like the image below:

That should be all, right? Nope, that actually doesn’t do anything but allow you to see a FriendFeed tab on your profile. But if you want to show FriendFeed posts on your stream, you’ve got to do the following.

First, allow FriendFeed to post stories on Facebook by doing a Facebook Connect permission. You can do that clicking on this link.

Then, you need to authorize the app (again?) to publish to your stream, by clicking on this link.

Finally you’ll be able to post on FriendFeed and those posts will show up on your Facebook stream.

There are a couple of observations, though. One is that because Facebook limits the number of stream updates done by an application per hour, some of your posts might not appear on the stream. Second, although text and images will show (which is very cool), video embeds won’t.

As a final recommendation, I also added the Facebook Twitter application and allowed it to update my stream. If you do so, make sure to not post from FriendFeed to Twitter, because you might end with duplicates on your Facebook stream (and annoy the hell out of your friends).

What about other services? Look around on the Facebook Applications directory. I’ve seen some people have added a Google Reader application as well as a Digg application. But while FriendFeed exists, you don’t need those, so put those worries for later.

How is your FriendFeed to Facebook move going? Let me know and be careful with those boxes!