You could see Flickr photos, recent muggings, local news stories and home foreclosures on your street, viewed as a map, list or RSS feed.

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The farmer added feed for his pigs to that list.

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Most recently, Shazam released 'Shazam Friends' for iOS and Android, a real-time feed of songs that Facebook friends have tagged, creating a continuously updating list for Shazamers to discover and share new music with others.

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The commission is infuriated that it was not alerted earlier and that, by June 9th, it had still not even been given a list of beef and pig farms that might have received contaminated feed.

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If you want to follow my monitored list you should be able to do that by going to the RSS feed.

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Facebook also has plans to roll out a new buddy list feature that'll show up as an overlay on top of Cover Feed with a simple swipe.

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Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in.

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We've been told that the beta will start to roll out very slowly -- early adopters and journalists have been granted early access, but if you're signed up on the waiting list, you can expect to see a notification box at top of your News Feed over the next few weeks.

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