WSJ Site Gets Friendly With Facebook

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The Wall Street Journal has just accepted Facebook's request to be online friends.

Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web site that will allow readers to see which Journal stories are popular among that user's Facebook friends.

WSJ Site Gets Friendly With Facebook [news.yahoo.com]

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This is very interesting. I am glad it mentioned the Amazon "people who bought this book also bought..." feature, which is exactly what I was thinking of when I was reading the article.

Good move for both parties, but I would imagine that it could get pretty saturated rather quickly.