The Value of a Liker. HUGE: Facebook Releases Admin Interface To Contact Likers. Back in July we revealed that Facebook had begun enabling developers to contact any user who had liked an object anywhere on the web.
Recently, Facebook has begun testing an interface to make that communication and the monitoring of those likers more efficient with an “administration interface”. While it’s still something that many people were capable of accomplishing previously, this new interface, which is essentially just a Facebook Page, made visible to the owner of the website, makes it a heck of a lot easier to contact likers. While I’m sure there were some companies who were already contacting the likers directly, this new frictionless way of publishing to their newsfeed will most definitely present some great opportunities to marketers. Facebook's Open Graph Personalizes the Web. Facebook has created a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one's interests and tastes — even if that individual has never visited the site before.
When you’re signed on to Facebook, participating websites like CNN.com will display information, goods and services tailored specifically to your interests — without requiring you to sign in at that website or provide it with any information. Speaking at the F8 Developer Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former FriendFeed CEO Bret Taylor, who is now Facebook's director of product, named three new features that will make this possible and easy to implement. Facebook's Like Button One Step Closer to Killing the Share Button.
Facebook Tweaks The Like Button: Like Things In Apps, Link To Pages, And Show Box Counts. Ever since Facebook rolled out their Like button in April, it has been spreading over the web like wild fire.
Since then, they’ve been tweaking it a bit here and there to improve the layout and functionality. Today brings more improvements. Confirmed: Facebook Rolling Out A New Slimmer, Sexier Like Button. Though it has only been out for a few months, it seems as if Facebook’s Like button is all over the web.
And despite some initial backlash, a lot of people seem to like it (see what I did there?). It now appears that Facebook may already be testing a new version of the Like button. [Update below] As you can see in the screenshots in this post, the Like button now has the like count on the right side of the actual button in its own smaller box. When you click on this new button, it brings the number inside the actual Like box. Facebook sert 3 milliards de boutons “J’aime” par jour sur les sites tiers. A Guide to Facebook Social Plugins for Small Business. Explore new Facebook plugins and discover their implementations, functionality and impact on your business.
June 01, 2010 Despite some reservations expressed by open web advocates about the true “openness” of Facebook’s Open Graph API, Facebook’s new social plugins offer amazing sharing functionality (and therefore potential exposure) that small businesses can get excited about. While Facebook social plugins are fairly simple to implement, understanding the practical uses for the different social plugin options can be a little confusing, especially in cases where the functionalities overlap. To help you decide which options best fit your site (and to get you up to speed with the 100,000 other sites already signed up) we’ve put together this quick guide. If you’ve started using the plugins, we’d love to hear your thoughts about them in the comments. 1.
Who Is It Good For? 2. Who Is It Good For? 3. Who Is It Good For? 4. Who Is It Good For? 5. The “Like” Revolution. Facebook is more than a social network.
Foursquare Adds Facebook “Like” Button to Venue Pages. Facebook Platform : How to use the new Facebook social plugins for your business. 5 Reasons Google and Search Won’t Dominate The Next Decade. Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC.
She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz. Over the past few years, there has been an underlying shift in the way we use technology in our lives. This could be simply described as moving from user-initiated (search) to auto-serving (suggestions) technologies, and it’s about to change the way we live, communicate, make money, shop, collaborate and more.
Instead of actively searching for things, we will be presented with them, as we live our lives. Facebook’s new “instant personalization” is just the beginning of an era in which we will slowly allow more and more technologies to shape our discovery and decision processes. 1. Most of the technologies and platforms we use these days require our action. 2. Let’s look at location searches and the hottest startup of the moment –- Foursquare. 3. Facebook Opens Up to the Web — Is That Good or Bad? Both carried a single, unmistakable message: Facebook wants to own your activity on the Internet.
Zuckerberg did his best to portray this as a great thing for users, but the corollary is inescapable: Facebook will be everywhere you are, watching what you do, keeping track of that data, and talking about what you’re doing to your friends and companies you “like.” A quick survey of the web shows that some seem to see this as a great idea (“Hey, I can show lots of cool stuff to my friends!”) I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. The opening keynote at Facebook’s f8 conference today in San Francisco was short and sweet.
But don’t let that fool you. It contained some huge announcements pertaining to how the service will interact with the broader web going forward. The three big ones: social plugins, Open Graph, and Open Graph API, make Facebook’s intentions very clear: they want to be the fabric of the web. Facebook socializes the Web with powerful new plugins. At its f8 conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Facebook announced that it is launching a series of plugins that will dramatically expand its presence across the Web. “Social plugins are a way you can provide an instantly personal experience with one line of HTML,” said Bret Taylor, the company’s director of product. All of these pieces form the basis of what Facebook says is a new philosophy for the web — one that is centered around people and their real affiliations. That’s instead of hyperlinks and pages, which have formed a rough proxy for these real connections over the past two decades.