Idea #9: Site to Track ‘Like’ for Any Web Page
With Facebook now offering a Like button for web sites which posts back to Facebook and helps with ad targeting…there’s a giant sucking sound towards Facebook (to paraphrase Ross Perot).
But I think there’s a lot of value in collating people’s likes/hates/mehs for any web page out there on the Internet, regardless of Facebook’s plans.
Maybe it’s just me.
UPDATE: A couple of people have pointed me to http://openlike.org/ . Neat idea. What I am talking about is building a site (like a StumbleUpon, I guess), which collates likes/hates/mehs for the entire web. This site could accept logins from Twitter, Facebook, others, so that it leverages existing networks.
Known Implementations: None
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Have you seen: OpenLike
http://openlike.org
Think it is Chris Dixon of Hunch and a few others trying to create an open like platform and the hate/meh would be interesting. I was wondering why Glue never did the hate or don’t like. Wondering if people just don’t respond to hating things. Then they just added don’t like in the last build of Glue.
Yes, I did see that! I follow Chris on Twitter.
It’s interesting. And I’m all for alternatives to Facebook. The idea I’m describing here wouldn’t have site owners do anything, so it’s a little different.
Thanks for stopping by, Chris!
Also, it’s for Facebook, but Kyle Bragger’s http://likeomatic.heroku.com was also interesting. He added a little API to it as well, like http://likeomatic.heroku.com/likes?url=http://apple.com
that’s sort of what V2 of Gelato is going to be, except not every page on the internet – but the objects in your stream: bands, books, movies, places, people, etc.