But a new service Favstar.fm hopes to take the Favorite functionality back to its roots, and make it useful.
Pandora has also added new features, including a favorites list, increased feedback functionality for tailoring stations, better playlist generation and dozens of other minor tweaks.
NetNewsWire: Released just today, a beta build of NetNewsWire (ver. 4, beta) became available, and it sports a number of Google Reader-like features, including keyboard shortcuts, limited sharing options, favoriting, mark as read functionality, and more.
iPhone OS 3.0 finally brought video functionality to everyone's favorite Apple phone.
A number of other third-party apps actually offered Facebook notification functionality, notably Boxcar (a favorite of mine), but this native support allows for a more tailored experience.
While the functionality was originally a user favorite, as Twitter exploded in size, it looked like it would become too expensive to maintain.
My personal favorite is when a camera has WIFI functionality for easy editing on-the-go on my phone.
It also supports a number of Google Reader's features, including support for many of the same keyboard shortcuts, tagging, favorites ("Saved for Later"), and "Mark as Read" functionality to quickly plow through categories.
There is also a Facebook "app" that recreates much of the regular site's functionality but allows you to share favorite apps with your friends.
The app is a competitor to longtime favorite Burner, which has, for some time, offered similar functionality.
