Facebook Beacon

[DaveEMG]

No automatic sign up. I was hoping to experiment with Beacon on a site that I'm launching in January. Anyone signed up with Beacon yet? Seems like a helluva awesome traffic source if you have site users with a lot of connections and something that's kinda socially worthy.

I was also thinking about linking Beacon with a survey site that I built for myspace about 3 years ago.

Anyways. Anyone play around with this yet? What do the facebookers want in return for getting to implement Beacon?

 

[CLKeenan]

I emailed facebook, but they havent gotten back to me yet

 

[DaveEMG]

If and when they get back to you, post up what the requirements are. I get the feeling they're linking Beacon with some sort of advertising package. . .

 

[CLKeenan]

Me too. Do a search on google to look up more stuff on beacon. I noticed somewhere they said only like 40 websites have it installed now. Websites like Fandango that get a shit ton of traffic

 

[DaveEMG]

Yeah I've looked around on Google, saw a few of these lists, and yep, it looks like only about 50 medium to large players are on board.

I'm just really curious how the arrangement works out. Is there a pay-per-beacon that these companies are paying? Or is it attached to an advertising package with SocialAds? Or is it just a free developer tool that assumes that the relationship is a two way deal (ie Facebook gets more / better user info and usage while the site gets potentially new traffic sources).