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A Digg for Facebook Likes: My Experiment
- lukeqsee 16y agoLove the concept. I think you'll do great. One major latency issue (I don't know if you can resolve it or not): every single Facebook like button has to load separately; it takes a long time. If you can solve that, I think you have a winner.
- ed 16y agoThanks, Luke! Apparently social widgets are suffering platform-wide: http://developers.facebook.com/live_status http://developers.facebook.com/live_status Perfect timing.
- Raphael 16y agoCan like buttons be recreated using Facebook APIs?
- ergo98 16y agoOpen TechCrunch and take a look at the net tab -- Facebook and Twitter are killing the web.
- markkat 16y agoThis is a good idea. I probably won't be part of the userbase, but I can imagine this being very popular. I'm going to bookmark and watch this one. Best of luck!
- krmmalik 16y agoLove the concept. I think it's a great idea. Wish you all the best.
- kloncks 16y agoAmazing website and gorgeous concept! Bad timing with Facebook being down but I'll check as soon as Facebook's back up. edit: Looks like Facebook's back up. One note: I'd edit some of the color choices. Some of the website (like some colors in the top menu) becomes hard to read. What are you thinking of doing with this service?
- thomasknowles 16y agoThis looks very interesting and I hope you do well, I am surprised I have not seen someone do anything something similar sooner. I hope it works well.
- stevederico 16y agoLove this idea because at this point, I am much more likely to "like" something than to "digg" it. However that may just be me, this idea could go big quickly.
- code_duck 16y agoYes, this is a very good idea.
- cristinacordova 16y agothoughts on a similar existing service? http://likebutton.me/ http://likebutton.me/
- henryw 16y agocool idea! please somehow add categories. i think categories like digg would be nice. if that's not possible, maybe do it by media type or media source.
- ed 16y agoHey Henry, big thanks for the input. I actually half-implemented categories before deciding they weren't the right solution. I think there is probably something better than implementing straight digg-like categories, but I haven't quite figured it out. Then again, I could totally be wrong and just end up finishing my implementation. As far as use cases, I assume you don't want to find LOLcats when you're looking for tech news, right?
- wazoox 16y agoThis looks like the definitive digg killer. Not that I use any of digg or facebook, however for lolcats and the likes it will certainly dwarf digg instantly.