Tag: LIKE

Facebook's 'Like' button has been a real success story for the social-networking giant. It's been spreading across the Internet like wildfire, with users 'Liking' everything from news articles to gourmet recipes. Now the Like button looks set to replace the Facebook 'Share' button, publishing full feed stories to users walls complete with headline, blurb and thumbnail. Previously the Like ...

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 ...

These Firefox Friday titles are really getting out of hand. Perhaps I should shorten them... or simply use more buzzwords... and square brackets (Firefox Friday Five [FEATURE]: news round-up, 2 billion incentivized [ADD-ON] downloads...) Still, at least you know, at a glance, exactly what you're getting. There'll be none of that sensational 'look at me!' crap here on Download Squad. Moving ...

Is the "like" about to replace the link as the Web's main currency? If Facebook's Open Graph continues the way it's going, it's possible. Open Graph now includes "liked" pages in search results, with the number of likes playing a role in rankings. Basically, it's like a parallel universe Google, where SEO depends on playing Facebook's game and including "likes" on your page. AllFacebook has been ...

Friendless Facebook user 'hotlou' seems to have picked up on a new Facebook feature! Unfortunately, other than the picture above, I don't have much to report. Facebook had a little to say to Business insider: "This is a test we're running to a small percentage of users who have very few friends on Facebook. This is simply to help them discover interesting content and create an instantly ...

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. This ...

If you click on an interesting Facebook link and find yourself redirected to a page with nothing but "click here to continue," close that window. You've been suckered by a popular Facebook worm that's spread to a reported 100,000+ users, generating fake "likes" on people's profiles. The fake likes link to those same "click here to continue" pages, perpetuating the cycle. One security firm is ...

With Facebook's like button expanding beyond Facebook itself, there are a lot of "likes" to keep track of, all over the web. Likebutton.me is the first site to aggregate all this new Facebook data on one easy-to-follow page. It's sort of like a Digg for Facebook likes, but it also focuses on likes from people you know. Likebutton.me has columns for a slew of prominent websites, from CNN to ...

Now that Facebook's "like" button is poised to take over the whole web, the campaign for a "dislike" button is more relevant than ever. But what about a third option, a "meh" option, an "I Don't Care" option? If you're a Google Chrome user, you can add "I Don't Care" to Facebook using the FBOSF extension. OSF is an abbreviation of the French "on s'en fout," meaning "we don't care." If you ...

Yesterday I posted a new Google Chrome extension which allows users to 'like' any page on the web using Facebook's new plugin. What with Chrome extensions being little more than JavaScript and CSS already, I didn't expect it would be long until a lightweight bookmarklet came along which does the same thing. Lo and behold, there's Like-o-matic! It's not quite as seamless as Facebook Likes, but ...

While bloggers and website owners everywhere wrestle with whether or not to integrate the vast array of new 'Facebook on your site' goodies, FB users are starting to use that little like button. If you're running Google Chrome, you don't need to wait on an update to your favorite sites. Just grab the Facebook Likes extension and you'll be able to submit any web page you browse. Just give the ...

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. ...

Facebook is already the most-visited site in the US, and now it's looking to expand its reach across the entire web. TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook plans to release a new set of features that allow other websites to integrate with Facebook. They're starting with a universal "like" button, so you can give a thumbs up to anything on the web, and have it tied back to your Facebook account. ...

We've been peripherally interested in Riya, an image recognition slash visual search start-up since we first caught wind of it, but now they've really got our attention. Riya is now testing Like.com, which is basically a shopping search engine with a visual seach twist. "Basically" is a poor way to put it, however, because though the experience isn't exactly jaw-dropping, if you spend some time ...