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Did you know the Facebook “Like” is a two-way street for data?

This article explains how Facebook has made the “like” button into a two-way street for data sharing. It will allow publishers to contact users who like their page. What are your thoughts?

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Facebook Turns “Like” Button Into Two-Way Street, Challenging Amazon for Buyer Data

Facebook has just announced that it will allow publishers to contact users who have “liked” a page by inserting things into that user’s News Feed. The new feature may annoy users, and that may be the idea. By providing an incentive to use their “likes” wisely, Facebook will help turn the Like button — once a relatively blunt instrument — into a much more refined tool.

The Like button has a very specific purpose, but until now, it wasn’t very good at its job. Like Amazon’s (AMZN) huge catalog of past purchases, or Mint’s (INTU) new “saving” features, Facebook’s Like… Continue reading →

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Check out the invisible “Like” button that Google has created.

I guess Google released the “Like” button and we didn’t know it. Kind of sneaky. :) Check out this article.

Amplify’d from www.skepticgeek.com

Another day and I read another post on how Facebook’s Like button is slowly obliterating Google’s Link as the next currency of the web. The pondered question in this case is what is going to be Google’s counter-offensive against the Like.

The assumption is that Google as a search engine has worked on the principle of ranking web pages according to the number of other pages linking to it. Well, here’s the deal: when a person likes something on the web, in most cases, a link is created. Google can see this Link, and hence can understand and incorporate the Like, in its scheme of things.

This mechanism has already been publicized by… Continue reading →

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TweetMeme has released a Pro version of their services for website owners

TweetMeme has listened to their users’ feedback and have released a Pro version of their famous “retweet” button.

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TweetMeme Pro

In response to feedback from some of our larger publishers, we are proud to announce the launch of TweetMeme Pro.

TweetMeme continually looks to improve its service and develop new ways for our publishers to integrate seamlessly. The company has grown substantially over the past year and now serves in the region of 700M buttons per day on around 250,000 sites.

We understand that it is important to provide the option of delivering a branded experience for its users through improved delivery and the ability to customise the button.

The TweetMeme Pro Button provides support for:
  • Customisation on the design of the button
  • Customisation on the design of the pop-up box
  • Dedicated servers to ensure high reliability and performance
  • The best user + publisher Retweet experience*
  • 100%… Continue reading →
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