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New ‘like’ features on independent.co.uk | Jack Riley | Independent Editor's choice Blogs
As I’ve written again and again recently, we’ve made a big effort to refocus Independent.co.uk over the last year to take into account the new ways people are finding, consuming and reacting to the news. It’s paid off; referrals from Facebook have grown 680 per cent comparing January and December of 2010, with referrals from Twitter also up 250 per cent. Much of that growth has been down to being one of the first big sites to integrate features like the Recommend button , a social plugin to show you what your friends are reading and sharing, and giving readers the ability to authenticate their commenting accounts through Facebook and Twitter using Disqus .
The Independent uses Facebook ‘likes’ to create custom topic feeds | Poynter.
ReadWriteWeb The Independent news site in the U.K. has begun using Facebook’s recommendation tools to push customized content to its readers’ news feeds.
How The Independent uses Facebook “Likes” to push specialized content to readers | Poynter.
Robert Fisk, the Middle East correspondent for The Independent in the United Kingdom, is surging in popularity on Facebook, with more than 13,000 “Likes” since mid-January. In comparison, the publication’s primary account has garnered about 39,000 “Likes” in about a year.How The New York Times Is Incorporating Social & Algorithmic Recommendations
The New York Times released Thursday a finished version of the Recommendations platform it quietly introduced in beta in late January. Available at nytimes.com/recommendations and on the “Recommended For You” tab on article pages, the tool is designed to help logged-in readers “see through the news fog,” as NYT lead technology reporter Nick Bilton put it .
Mashable currently boasts 12 million unique visitors per month — making the social media-focused news site the largest independent tech news site on the web.
Mashable, tackling info overload, launches a Follow function keyed to user networks and interests » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site « Mashable | The Social Media Guide Mashable | The Social Media Guide
The New York Times is launching the public beta of its TimesPeople social network this evening, an offering we first reviewed earlier this summer .How Media Will Relate to Facebook in the Future
It's clear though that Facebook has come up with a winning formula: emphasis on effective user experience, easy and meaningful social interaction, casual gaming and multi-media reading and writing, not just subscription like Google Reader offers. RSS readers, like Google Reader, arguably offer more powerful features, include subscription portability and allow you to keep your subscriptions private - but that hasn't mattered for Facebook users.
In 2009, we announced HuffPost Social News — "a collaboration with Facebook that connects HuffPost users to their Facebook friends, the news they are reading, and the stories they are commenting on," as Arianna wrote then. The past year has seen that vision realized — and then some. Reading the news is no longer a solitary experience.
Rob Fishman: Stories You Might Like: Join Our Beta Program to Test HuffPost Recommendations
The giant online publisher and aggregator Huffington Post began experimenting with a new content recommendation engine today , powered by Facebook and built by AdaptiveSemantics , the startup the company acquired last June.
Many Huffington Post Readers Hate Site's New Facebook-Powered Recommendation Engine
Introducing Mashable Follow, Our New Social Layer Mashable | The Social Media Guide
We’re excited to announce today the beta launch of a new social layer we call Mashable Follow .Considering that Mashable stories are retweeted 40,000 times a day and shared on Facebook with the same frequency each week, the people at Mashable understand that their success depends on social media.