facebook like button on your homepage

Facebook launched a new thing - the anywhere like button. You can add it to any webpage and facebook users, who click on that button will have a line on their profile saying "USER likes WEBPAGENAME", where WEBPAGENAME is a link to the liked site.

Regardless if you consider Facebook to be of the dark side or not, tests yesterday have already shown that you can generate traffic this way. So if you know at least little about HTML, you might wonna check out the page on facebook where you can generate this code for your webpage: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

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Permalink Reply by Shane E. on April 26, 2010 at 9:50am
Thanks, Jan. I was reading about this the other day and there were a few news articles talking about how FB is trying to take over the world, at least virtually.
Permalink Reply by Nina Greipel on April 26, 2010 at 5:46pm
I speak German and English fluently. Oh, I wish I spoke fluent computer geek, sigh!
Permalink Reply by Shane E. on April 27, 2010 at 1:19pm
I went with 'recommend' buttons using the Open Graph. It's interesting. I'm not excited about it, yet.
Permalink Reply by Jan, the German on April 27, 2010 at 5:31pm
Maybe you should hide the button some more, I think its too obvious at the very end of the page, you do know that people like the challange. And then again, I really like your American way of thinking like "I dont give a damn if you like me, just recommend me!" ;)
Permalink Reply by Shane E. on April 27, 2010 at 11:19pm
I found that I couldn't create an application attached to my existing fan page so I had to go with the 'like box' to avoid starting over with a new fan page, primarily because the xfbml toys using the open graph can't refer to a FB web address (such as an existing fan page, even if you use the id for it), so existing fan pages wouldn't work, only a page generated from an app with a real app id. It was a little confusing. The app made its own fan page from the 'like' and 'recommend' buttons which would let you post to that to post to fan users' walls. But it was still a different fan page and wouldn't let me redirect to the existing page.

However, the 'like box' works just fine for adding fans directly to the existing fan page, and I don't really need to get anything fancy going anyway.

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