I love this. CNN partenered with Facebook so you can watch the inauguration speech video live with your friends. A collaborative taste of things to come? (Off topic: I love the idea of Facebook Connect, but I don’t like it is the only good option.)
Ok, great, collaboration finally reaches the news sites, but why stop there? Ultimately the news is created by people not by new stations, they just dig up the stories and choose which ones get the attention.
I just read about an idea to use twitter hashtags for job seekers/job creaters and thought that this idea might be adapted to news outlets. A common citizen journalis seeing first hand a news-worthy event could write in #NEWS or #CNN for instance. This might be a little redundant since news-worthy twitters are already crowdsourced to the masses if its popular, but its an interesting idea to speed up the process and allow news outlets to find twitters quicker.
It would be interesting experimentation also if news agencies started keeping better track of people. I should be able to read a story on Steve Jobs, click on his name, and see all the news articles on him. Build on this, find out what people are saying about him on Twitter, blogs etc. add that content as well.
With this Facebook Connect test I think we’ll see a full blown implementation soon. Soon (I hope) I’ll be able to go on CNN and see what my friends are saying about certain articles. I don’t think this will be complete though until CNN adds a whole lot more content to their site, even if its from outside sources (or user generated contect).
