I’ve listened to Robert Grant of www.crowdconversion.com speak two nights in a row on the incredible power of Facebook’s new social plugins. What are these?
If you’ve been reading Internet marketing news in the last few days, you know that these new features have many people either very excited or very upset.
It seems to me that for marketers and researchers the new features are incredibly powerful; for people worried about privacy issues there are, indeed, new issues over which to worry.
Here are three sites I learned about from Robert Grant — sites that are using a form of the “like” social plugin:
The site http://likebutton.me enables you to see what your Facebook friends “like” by category. In a very easy-to-read format I was able to skim categories:
I spotted one cousin of mine who in the Vimeo category had shared British Pop (do not ask me who this is) and one cousin of mine in the YouTube category who had shared Duran Duran in Studio 2009 (recognized Duran Duran but not Studio 2009).
You have to try this site yourself – remember, it’s your Facebook friends’ likes.
Then I went to http://www.itstrending.com/ to check out this real-time feed of the most shared content on Facebook. This does not appear to be restricted to your Facebook friends’ likes.
And finally I checked out the video about the “like” option on the Levi’s jeans website — http://us.levi.com/home/index.jsp — and it is so obvious the Levi’s people “get” the power of Facebook’s new features.
Check out these three sites yourself. Then in the comments below let me know what you think.
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