Facebook’s “Like” feature has seemingly taken over the web. A month or so ago, Mashable reported that the Typepad bloggers who installed the widgets on their sidebars got a 50% boost in traffic. As of that time, 1,500 TypePad bloggers had installed the “Like” buttons on their blogs in the first month. Then Typepad made it possible to add the Like button to each post. 2,400 bloggers added that version of the feature, and Typepad says they got a 200% boost.
Then the Like feature was available for any website. Mashable says, “They were on 50,000+ websites within one week after launch, on 100,000+ sites in less than a month, and are now on 350,000+ sites.” But for people who like to Like sites to share with their Facebook friends, it can be frustrating that not all pages have the button. They can relax now though, because there’s an extension called “Facebook Like” from Greasemonkey that places a “Like” bar on the top of any webpage you visit (with the exception of Facebook.com itself). It was built by Facebook Engineer Matt Kelly as a personal project during a company Hackathon. (Companies have Hackathons?)
Facebook Like works with Firefox as long as you have the Greasemonkey add-on installed, and allows you to Like, make Recommendations and add Activity Feed features on any Firefox page you visit. It also works with Google Chrome, since includes native support for Greasemonkey scripts, while Safari requires GreaseKit.
So get it, and then utilize internet speed to zip along the information superhighway in a hot rod with the top down and wind in your virtual hair, singing new lyrics to an old tune: “Oooooh…Like to Like You, Baby!”
Tags: Facebook, Internet Speed