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Twitter Launches Follow Button for Websites

Published by pratyushkp on June 1st, 2011 - in Social, Technology

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Twitter has launched a Follow button, enabling users to subscribe to the Twitter feeds of companies and individuals directly from their websites with a single click.

Previously, website publishers had to redirect users to their respective accounts on Twitter.com before users could opt to follow them. The new feature will likely encourage publishers to increase the number of “follow us” prompts on their sites, because they won’t have to risk redirecting their audiences off-site.

Users will still be able to preview profiles before opting to follow them by clicking the username next to the Follow button.

Those who are interested in adding the button to their own sites can set one up here.

Source :- http://mashable.com

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  • Twitter Launches Follow Button for Websites (mashable.com)
  • Twitter Launches the Follow Button (techie-buzz.com)
  • Twitter Introduces New Follow Button (bloggersblog.com)
  • Twitter launches follow button for websites (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Twitter Follow Button Now Available, Allows For “On Page” Following (blogherald.com)
  • Twitter FINALLY introduces a Follow button for your site (thenextweb.com)

Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’

Published by pratyushkp on April 28th, 2011 - in Social, Technology


Facebook’s increasingly ubiquitous ‘Like’ button is getting a new friend: the Send button. Click on a webpage that has the Send button integrated, and you’ll be prompted to share it with any of your Facebook Groups, your Facebook friends, or any standard email address. In other words, where the Like button is designed to let you quickly share content with all of your Facebook friends, the Send button is for sharing with a subset of them.

Site designers are groaning right now (they have yet another sharing widget to integrate), but it’s a logical step for Facebook — there are certainly times when you want to share links with a handful of friends instead of your News Feed, and this gives you one less reason to fire up your non-Facebook email account. 50 sites are launching with the feature.

In addition to the new Send button, Facebook is adding a handful of features to its existing Groups product, which was overhauled last October. First is the introduction of photo albums for Groups. Before now it’s been possible to upload a single photo to a group, and now you’ll be able to upload a whole set. These photo albums are unusual because they’re walled within the Group — only other group members will be able to see them (even tagged photos aren’t visible to people on the outside).

The second addition is integration with Facebook Questions, which re-launched last month. Now you can pose a question that’s contained within the group.

Finally, and most important, is a new setting that will require Group administrators to approve any new members who have been invited to join the group. Up until now anyone within a Facebook Group was able to invite any of their friends (the idea was that you’d be violating the ‘social contract’ if you started inviting people who didn’t belong). But now Facebook recognizes that there are some groups that should be more private, so you can require admin approval.

Provided it gets broad distribution (which seems a given), the Send button will probably lead to a boost in Groups usage. It’s always been easy to share links within Groups, but this lowers the bar even further because you don’t have to leave the page you’re reading — you can imagine people using the button to share book reviews with their book club, close friends sharing new ideas for travel destinations, and so on.

And while ‘Send’ may not sound especially exciting given how long other sharing widgets have been around, this is yet another step in Facebook’s mission to reinvent email with their own “modern messaging system“, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it. One by one, they’re integrating easy ways to complete tasks that have traditionally been done over email. Today’s launch — sending links to friends — is obviously a huge one, and you can be sure they have others in the works. One other email-replacing feature I’ve heard about (though I’m not sure they’re still working on it): a way to send a structured poll to a subset of your friends.

Facebook says that there are now 50 million Facebook groups, and while not all of these are active, it says that the majority of them are.

Source :- http://techcrunch.com

  • Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’ (techcrunch.com)
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  • How to add the Facebook Send button to your website or WordPress.org blog – or even your Facebook Page (krishnade.com)
  • Facebook Releases Updates to Groups, New “Send” Button Social Plugin for Private Sharing From Off-Site (insidefacebook.com)
  • Facebook announces new group sharing service with ‘Send’ button (thenextweb.com)
  • Extensions Bring Facebook’s New “Send” Button to Google Reader, WordPress & More (readwriteweb.com)
  • Facebook Announces ‘Send’ Button: A ‘Like’ With Context (nytimes.com)
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  • Facebook Makes Groups More Useful With Optional Security (techland.time.com)
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Facebook Like to get Share button feature

Published by pratyushkp on March 1st, 2011 - in Social, Technology

Tests are being conducted including very limited number of Facebook users

Popular social network Facebook s Like button has given birth to thousands of serial likers (Yes, I just made it up). Apparently to live up to the true motive of liking and sharing user-generated or uploaded content, Facebook had introduced new Share button last year. Till date, you could like almost everything on Facebook but can t share the same in your News Feed with your connections. Mashable reports that the Like button is soon getting Share functionality and thereby you can share the posted content with others.

Upcoming features at Facebook always keep showing up during the testing phase. Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich informed that Facebook will continue to carry the Share button on the website. Lucich said, We re always testing new products that incorporate developer feedback as we work to improve the Platform experience, and have no details to share at this time.

Basically any post, photo, video, or link you Like on Facebook would get the Share functionality as well so that you can share it with others. In a way, it s just going to increase the noise by duplication of same post. To Like something on Facebook is very different from sharing it with others.  Marketers and publishers would certainly admire the new Share functionality of the Like button since the audience will be anticipated to like and share the content.
Like & Share buttons

The new feature has its own set of merits and demerits. The merit lies in the fact that users can share whatever they like with others after hitting Like button. But the demerit lies in the fact that just because one hits Like button doesn t mean user wants to share it with his/her friends. In fact just like several complain about certain users hitting Like button for everything and everywhere possible, it just becomes difficult to judge accurately whether the purpose was served or not.

The share functionality for Like button would be visible mostly on the Facebook web interface and mobile interface only. It won’t impact the individual Like and Share plugins available as part of Social Plugins. However, we do not underestimate the Facebook users for several know what each feature stands for. Hence I hope if and when this new feature rolls out, users will make use of it judiciously.

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  • Facebook phasing out Share button in favor of the Like button (geek.com)
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  • Facebook Like Button Takes Over Share Button Functionality (mashable.com)
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  • The Facebook “Like” Starts to Replace the Share Button’s Functionality (readwriteweb.com)

Facebook To Provide Time To Add Friends

Published by pratyushkp on September 21st, 2010 - in Social, Technology

Facebook unveils new button- “Not Now”- for users to handle friend request.

Facebook has unveiled a new way of handling friends request by launching a new button known as “Not Now”. The new button will let users move their friends request to a “Hidden requests” folder and the user will be able to go back later and approve or deny. Those who initiated the request will not see what action has been taken, and from their perspective all they’ll see is the awaiting friend confirmation notation.In addition to that, Facebook will also offer users another option of marking the person as someone you don’t know, and then that person won’t be able to initiate a friend request with you in the future. The option will be rolled out to all users in the coming months.

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