ALVISTOR

Have you noticed the change made by facebook on “become a fan” badge to “like” button. I saw a notifier  in my “alvistor” fan page in facebook about the change made to ‘become a fan’ button. Immediately I collected the details, and hope it will use for facebook worms, blogger s, and site masters.

Facebook’s In-Site Changes

Facebook Inc.,  has officially altered the wording on its Facebook Pages, which are used by companies, public communities, public figures. Instead of clicking a button to “become a fan” of a Facebook Page, you’ll now click a button “like” to like it(join the page) — the same way you now doing for status update.

Then the major in-site change is by collecting your ‘like’ clicks facebook will start suggesting ‘Facebook Pages’ to you based on other things you’ve said you like, that is things from your profile, for example, such as your favorite bands and movies. If you accept one of Facebook’s automatically generated invitations(suggested from likings), the original text in your profile will disappear and it will be repa link to the Facebook Page you just joined. And that information will, by default, be publicly accessible.

“Once you make your choice, any text you’d previously had for the current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests sections of your profile will be replaced by links to these pages,” Facebook engineer Alex Li explains in an official blog posting. “If you would still like to express yourself with free-form text, you can still use the ‘Bio’ section of your profile.”

Facebook’s Universal ‘Like’ Button (For Blogger s and Web Masters)

The next part of Facebook’s “Like” expansion, according to various reports, will be bringing the “Like” button to the rest of the Web.

Here’s how The New York Times explains it:

“Similar to the Facebook ‘Share’ buttons that are already popular with many Web sites, the ‘Like’ buttons will make it easier for Web publishers to offer more social experiences, in essence allowing Facebook friends to enjoy those sites together.”

not yet finished, read

“While ‘Share’ buttons allow users to post links that their friends see on their Facebook pages, those links are fleeting,” The Times says. “The ‘Like’ button will allow Facebook to keep a record of what a user linked to, providing the company with ever more data about people’s preferences. Facebook, in turn, plans to share that data with Web publishers, so that a magazine Web site, for instance, may be able to show users all the articles that their friends like.”

That’s, like, really involved.

While Facebook hasn’t directly confirmed or denied the upcoming launch of a universal “Like” button, the company is saying some reports about the feature are flat-out wrong. The Financial Times published a story Monday morning that said the Web-wide system would track your behavior around the Web in order to deliver behaviorally targeted ads back at Facebook.com. A Facebook spokesperson tells me that story is incorrect; the company, she says, has no planned changes related to its “ad offerings or ad policies.”

Facebook’s universal “Like” button is revealed today after company’s F8 conference.

source : PCworld