Yes, the ubiquitous “Like” button has invaded my blog (See, there at the right, under the header). Facebook has added new functionality to their empire, allowing outside sites to connect to Facebook. Now you can “Like” The Kitchen and that will show up to your friends on Facebook. (The button is for the whole blog, not any individual post)
We’ll try it out for a while. I may decide it’s not worth it. I have noticed that the page loads more slowly than before. There are some other things that might could be added as well, so I’ll probably either expand Facebook’s presence on this blog or eliminate it completely. Time will tell.
Hopefully, you’ll tell too. If you’re on Facebook, why don’t you try “liking” this blog? If you don’t think this blog should be connected to Facebook, feel free to tell me that as well. I’d like to know your opinion.
how much did it cost to sell this?
I didn’t actually pay anything. It’s a new thing Facebook is doing to broaden their reach to the whole web.
Here’s some info:
http://developers.facebook.com/plugins
I’ve been tinkering around with this trying to add a button to my site … not having much luck. Facebook doesn’t seem to like the iframe or XFBML code.
Is this the kitchen a free wordpress.com blog, or a wordpress.org blog that you have to pay for? Just curious how you’re getting your like button to work.
This is a wordpress.org site. I used the Facebook Open Graph Widget by Keith P. Graham.
Gotcha – I don’t think this works on .com sites.
Oh well
It’s a little buggy right now. Apparently they didn’t realize how popular it would be.
The title has a sad ring to it.
Well, I started to put “I sold my soul to Facebook,” but that really DID sound sad. And I have some theological problems with that. Since my blog doesn’t really have its own soul, I thought it might just sound humorous.
Guess I missed?