Google +1 finally unveiled, probably not what you expected it to be
It's a big day for Google, what with the announcement that Kansas City (not that Kansas City, but the other one that's actually in Kansas) has been selected to be the lucky town to get wired up with Google Fiber -- but that's not all they've gone public with today. Their "+1" project, which has been the subject of conjecture for months, was finally unveiled as well.
Google didn't exactly ...
Facebook and MySpace held a joint event today to announce MySpace's new Mashup with Facebook feature, which can sync all of your Facebook "likes" to MySpace in one click. MySpace will be getting Facebook like buttons, rolling out across the service starting today. Interests on MySpace will also be linked to relevant interests on Facebook, and MySpace will use your Facebook data to recommend ...
Facebook is working on a new feature that would make "likes" more like Pages, allowing for info to be posted on the walls of anybody who "likes" a particular thing. Currently, this only works one way: if you post about something you like, your post goes on the wall of the Facebook page for that thing. Under the new version, any page with a like button will be able to do this in reverse, leaving ...
Facebook's universal "like" button is all over the web, but until today, there were still some important things on Facebook itself that you couldn't like: people's comments! That just changed, though, because there's now a "like" button on every comment. You may already be getting notifications that people have liked old comments you've made -- in fact, that's how I noticed the feature.
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If you're annoyed with constant suggestions that you "become a fan" of lame and asinine things on Facebook, here's some good news: Facebook is phasing out the term "fan," and pushing the more general "like" into its place. I'm guessing that this has something to do with the "universal like button" we posted about last week, which will allow you to use Facebook to "like" things on other websites. ...





