Poynter Online: How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook’s New Features
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 06:11
"We've seen an over 250 percent increase in referrals from Facebook to ABC News since the launch of the Social toolkit on ABCNews.com," [Jonathan Dube, vice president in charge of ABCNews.com] said.
CNN.com Blogs: Behind the Scenes:: CNN.com with Facebook: Your news just got a whole lot more social
Monday, 26 April 2010, 08:21
You'll find multiple ways to seamlessly recommend, share or comment on our content with your friends on Facebook, as well as see when your friends have recommended, shared or commented on CNN.com content [including] Global Facebook Connect login … Homepage activity feed … profile page activity module … recommending conent and NewsPulse."
BuzzMachine: Bizarro identity
Monday, 26 April 2010, 06:33
Jeff Jarvis on Facebook Open Graph: "I think my problem is this: I want the exact opposite of what Facebook did. I want the Bizarro Facebook. Instead of Facebook controlling my identity, I want to be able to control and publish and set access to and rules for the use of my identity online, allowing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, anyone access to it under my terms."
ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors
Monday, 26 April 2010, 06:31
RWW on the implications of Facebook Open Graph for publishers: "any site that already has social networking built in has to decide to abandon that before jumping into the Facebook Open Graph. The even worse problem is the ownership of ratings and comments. Are publishers really ready to give that up?" Also, implications for the semantic web: "What Facebook has done has a chance to make vast parts of the consumer Web including movies, books, music, events, sports, and news semantically tagged. Publishers and websites finally have a strong incentive to mark things up and get return traffic from Facebook."
