Imagine that--a "Like" button for the whole internet
03-26-2010, 05:14 AM
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If this blows up and gets really popular, it'll achieve what Google took a long ass time and tons of cash to achieve--indexing the web. Except in this case, the web indexes itself voluntarily to get integrated into Facebook's internal traffic and content economy.
Still too early to tell. FB hasn't exactly had a history of smooth implementations hitting the jackpot at the first try (example: beacon controversies and other related drama)
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/25/fac...darn-internet/
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One of the new features we’ve been hearing about is the extension of Facebook Connect and the Facebook API to allow publishers to add a “Like” button to any piece of content on their site.
Sound trivial? It isn’t. This is likely part of Facebook’s Open Graph API project that will incentivize third party sites to interact deeply with Facebook by sharing content and associated metadata.
Today you can “share” content with Facebook via a simple button (you can see our implementation at the top of this post). The new Like feature goes way beyond the Share button, we’ve heard.
Good for publishers? Yes. But it’s also very, very good for Facebook as hundreds of thousands of websites will rush to format their content to exactly Facebook’s preference and send over all their data without a second thought.
One way to think of this, says a source with knowledge of the product, is this. Google spends billions of dollars indexing the web for their search engine. Facebook will get the web to index itself, exclusively for Facebook.
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