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New social plugins for Facebook

Published by on Apr 22nd, 2010, 2 Comments

Facebook logoA number of new features were announced yesterday at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco. The most notable of these include the following social plugins:

1. The new “Like” button, which will be implemented on external sites across the web, including, for now, NYTimes.com, IMDb, CNN.com, TIME.com, LIFE.com, Fandango, NHL.com, USA Networks, Levis.com, Univision and ABC.com. When the user “likes” a product or article on one of these sites, that action will be shared with their friends on Facebook, and their friends will be able to comment on it there. In some cases, such as with IMDb, an item that is “liked” will be added to the user’s profile page under their interests. The item – in this case a movie – will then be able to send the user updates through their News Feed on Facebook.

2. Working alongside the new Like button, the Activity Feed surfaces the actions a user’s friends are taking on a website. If a user is logged into Facebook and then visits a site with this feature implemented, they will be able to see the articles and topics on the site that their friends are sharing, recommending and commenting on.

3. The Recommendations feature will highlight the content on the external site that is most popular with Facebook users, based on the number of “likes” each item receives.

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Apple Intends to Tie iTunes 9 With a Social Application

Published by on Aug 12th, 2009, 2 Comments

Is Apple finally targeting the lucrative Social Networking business? The big question has a lot of confusing answers and the latest speculation to add to that long list of answers — after the Paypal killer, is that Apple is keen on tying iTunes with a social application that should release to the market in the near future (whatever that means).

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The application will be similar to Yahoo One Connect and will be capable of consolidating all social networking services.

As a consequence you will be able to broadcast what music you are listening to and you could even share music with people on your network. Not just that, you could connect with your friend’ friends and update all your statuses at one go. In combination with iTunes 9, your music status could also be broadcasted.

The problem with all these is that nothing is confirmed, which just leaves us in a state of jeopardy for now.

[via BGR]

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