Facebook is trying to take over the web.

[Ataraxy]

Facebook wants developers to create subsets of the Open Graph around interests and things. Yelp might create one around restaurants, Pandora might create one around music, Netflix around movies. Add some “like” buttons and anytime someone likes a restaurant, song, or movie anywhere on the Web with a Facebook like button, that information will flow back into the Open Graph. So that Yelp will know what restaurants you and your friends have liked elsewhere and take that into consideration when giving you recommendations, or Pandora with music, and so on. (Yelp and Pandora are real examples, Netflix isn’t).

Read more: Zuckerberg: “We Are Building A Web Where The Default Is Social”

It's already live on some pretty popular sites. Feel free to check out any movie on IMDB for example, or any story on CNN as another.

On one hand I find the implications of this to be disturbing since Facebook is a private company and as of this time to the best of my understanding the API's to extract this data are private. On the other hand the moment they bake this into a behavioral advertising system shit's going to get real.

I'm of the belief that it also works both ways, as in those sites that hook into their system in this manner can immediately gain access to a persons interests in order to market to them more effectively.

Which begs the question, why aren't the same people that hate on behavioral advertising freaking out about Facebook privately gathering peoples interests across the web?

 

[yellowarrior]

Next time I am looking at porn, I hope a pop up says "your mom and three other friends also liked this movie"

 

[battlefork]

Facebook is trying to take over the web

who isn't?

 

[nickycakes]

it's just more clutter on the newsfeed, and cakestradamus predicts nobody will use any of these new features. anyone who's ever run a blog and tried putting those "digg this" or "stumble this" icons on their posts will tell you that exactly 0 people click them.

also, if it's being used as a way to give feedback about a product or restaurant, whatever, then it would make sense to have a dislike button. being restricted to only giving things thumbs up on the web is a little pointless... scratch that, a lot pointless.

 

[Garrett]

cakestradamus

lulz

 

[Flash4Ever]

it's just more clutter on the newsfeed, and cakestradamus predicts nobody will use any of these new features. anyone who's ever run a blog and tried putting those "digg this" or "stumble this" icons on their posts will tell you that exactly 0 people click them.

Right, agree.
The only useful feature was Facebook connect on third party sites and they want to replace with something else.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Right, agree.
The only useful feature was Facebook connect on third party sites and they want to replace with something else.

Normally, I'd agree. But I think Facebook like functionality is much more ubiquitous than stuff like digg, stumble, tweet etc. My mom has a facebook account. She knows what the like thing does. Be interesting to see how this plays out..."likebait"....you heard it here first.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

likebait.com -> available

 

[nvanprooyen]

likebait.com -> available

Lol. Ya, I looked at that and almost bought it for the hell of it.

 

[unrealalex]

ive already got "Like" on one of my sites lol. theres a wordpress plugin.
As far as dig and stumbleupon a lot of people dont use those, but facebook share and retweet buttons are often used.

edit: Here is the plugin http://www.travisballard.com/fblike.tar.gz

 

[conv3rsion]

= facebook content network

 

[yellowarrior]

If anything I am happy to see someone competing against google by adjusting the web. Twitter sorta tried, fail.

Meh. stirring the pot is always useful for those who like to be early adopters.

 

[justo_tx]

Lol. Ya, I looked at that and almost bought it for the hell of it.

I'm assuming somebody from this thread did buy it today, somebody named Aaron snatched it up.

 

[ContentMantra]

They had these in mind long ago. Earlier there used to be the Become a Fan buttons and community widgets. Now they have these like things!

They wish to assort people based on their likes, that's what they're creating.

it's just more clutter on the newsfeed, and cakestradamus predicts nobody will use any of these new features. anyone who's ever run a blog and tried putting those "digg this" or "stumble this" icons on their posts will tell you that exactly 0 people click them.

also, if it's being used as a way to give feedback about a product or restaurant, whatever, then it would make sense to have a dislike button. being restricted to only giving things thumbs up on the web is a little pointless... scratch that, a lot pointless.

So how does this function. I just checked out IMDB and the like thing is unique for every movie. So can we implement a similar thing for like Blogposts? How would it work? A new page for every blog post or something like that?