Facebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page. Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited website today and growing. I’ve just sort of accepted that if someone really wants to they can know pretty much everything I’ve ever done online. Meanwhile, getting Likes in lots of people’s profiles could be some some potent leverage for me.
I’m not going to reiterate the details. I’ll just link to them and/or quote them if necessary. It boils down to this: There are two ways to do a “Like” button, either insert an iframe in your site (with all the attendant ugliness of iframes), or actually enable your page and use the facebook SDK yourself.
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