Since Facebook announced their new feature, the “Like” button a week ago it has already taken over the web. Even here at Forever Geek we are sporting a “Like” button. In my daily website browsing I see more “Like” button then not.
And while Facebook introduced about a billion “Like” button according to their own sayings the Facebook Wall is still one big stream of data. There is no way to organize all incoming feeds on your Wall into categories to keep a clear summary of everything.
This is where the “Like Button” website comes in handy. Developed by Facebook but under another domain. You get an overview of all mayor websites like CNN, New York Times, Mashable, Tech Crunch etc. And the site automatically detects if you are logged in to Facebook and lists your Friends that have liked something on those website.
You can chose to view the sites per categories like News, Information Games, Entertainment, etc. Or you can add your own custom site, for example Forevergeek and it will list your friends who liked it and the most shared entries with the count of people who have shared it. You can see how I blurred three people, those appeared on the list because they are on my friends list and they “Liked” something from YouTube. Beneath them you get YouTube’s most shared videos.
You can choose “Custom” from the drop down list and add your own websites you want to keep track off. I added Forevergeek, YouTube and Vimeo which the latter two being ones that are shared a lot by my Facebook friends. If you have a website of your own and have implemented the “Like” button this would be a simple way to add all those websites and keep track of its Facebook popularity.
I’m definitely bookmarking Like Button and making it part of my daily website viewing. And while my Facebook friends start sharing more websites I’ll keep adding the ones they share the most to keep a clear summary and have a quick overview of what they are currently interested in.
Follow the developer Zach Allia on Twitter to keep up to date with developing. According to this tweet there is a big update coming out tomorrow, I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
This is pretty darn sweet! I now have a ‘Custom’ page with our 12 top sites. (It confirms what I always say: not everything works everywhere)
Well darn it, I just checked again today and the “Custom” option has been removed from the drop down list which immediately makes this website useless to me. My FB friends are mostly based in Aruba and the Netherlands so besides YouTube the standard sites added on Like Button are useless to me.
I hope it’s just a fluke and that they will add the custom option back.
Seems to be a cookie issue. Add 2 custom sites and then reload the page. There’s the custom option in the dropdown again.
Thanks! That helped. Hope they solve it soon, otherwise you need to do this every time the cookie expires.
This site is a lot more interesting when not logged in. Try it out in another browser than the one you’re logged in to crackbook with. Even custom is better to follow.
It only shows 21 links that are liked in a domain I picked. Hopefully theres a way to add more or to show all links.