Facebook has recently been rolling out new features and layouts, willy-nilly, risking the ire of many users who may be getting upgrade fatigue.
One of the many changes I noticed was a new feature intended to leverage users into promoting “great places” more when they “Like” a location:
Wasn’t just having Likes appearing on your wall page sufficient endorsement of a place? Now the service is trying to get you to push status updates for some places when they’re liked, and this just seems overly… pushy.
Is this what they intend to replace their becoming-deprecated check-in service feature? If so, this is particularly lame.
The “Like” activity itself is a form of endorsement and needs no further embellishment.
Oh, Facebook – Why Must You Rehost Wikipedia?!?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010In a move perhaps inspired by Google Map’s adoption of Wikipedia content and Google’s overall preferential rankings of Wikipedia, Facebook has been testing out articles that are highly similar to Wikipedia’s. In fact, Facebook’s article pages have actually sucked in Wikipedia’s initial article content for topics in a great many cases I’ve seen thus far:
From my perspective, this sort of breaks one of the great benefits of hypertext that made the internet great: linking to source content. (more…)
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