Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Like Plugin’

It’s, Like, What Your Friends Like

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

With the new Open Graph changes from Facebook, a cool site, LikeButton.me has come to visually show the power of this feature in social media.

Once you go to the site, you’ll see boxes of popular websites like YouTube, Yelp, and Huffington Post. Take a closer look and you’ll notice that your Facebook friends’ shared items from each site are featured highest up for each site. In addition, some of the top shared items from each site are also featured so you know what people outside of your network are interested in. You can also add a custom site to the grid in case there’s a certain topic that interests you but is missing from LikeButton.me.

It makes sense that we’d want to check out shared videos, articles and links from our friends who share similar interests,  so this is a cool, visual way to see shared items across some key sites. Log into Facebook, check it out and let us know if you like it (no pun intended).

What’s Mine is Yours and His, Hers, Theirs…

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Last week, I was blown away by the announcements from F8. The Open Graph and the new technologies that support it are incredible, and you can already see signs of Facebook integration on many popular websites.

While the fact that Facebook has over 450 million users seems like enough to prove its worth to brands, this new expansion is another sign of the social phenomenon’s impressive reach to consumers.

I think this is just the beginning of a whole new level of social interaction. Instant connections to sites like Yelp and Pandora are sure to lend a new element to the emerging share culture. All of this is very cool and exciting. And yet…

"I'm sorry. I can't let you "Like" that, Dave."

Isn’t it a little scary? I mean, you don’t even have to be logged in for CNN.com to know which of your Facebook friends have “liked” the article you’re reading. It just knows. Like some all-knowing HAL 9000 character.

Facebook’s privacy policy and use of its user information has been the topic of serious debate and criticism lately, and I think that this new development will add heat to the fire. Do people really want that information out there? Does the idea of the opt-in still exist?

The next few weeks will grant us a much better view of how these new changes will affect businesses and their online presence, and I’m looking forward to having a front row seat. Also, next week our own Richard Ha will be updating from the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, and I am sure he will have more insight to share.