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Not only are they bad, they slow down the rendering speed of the pages they're on. http://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/12663859611
Biggest annoyance is that it doesn't degrade very gracefully when FB has availability problems, you get a white square in the page in Firefox.
Not only are they bad, they slow down the rendering speed of the pages they're on. http://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/12663859611
Browsers are pretty good in progressive rendering of page content these days. So user should see the main page first and then it starts loading these additional resources. So no big deal IMHO. The button should not degrade user experience during page loading.
Not only are they bad, they slow down the rendering speed of the pages they're on. http://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/12663859611
We use it via FBML and JavaScript SDK and the slow down seems to be minimal. We load their script right before . Biggest annoyance is that it doesn't degrade very gracefully when FB has availability problems, you get a white square in the page in Firefox.
Easy to do, but they are probably busy doing other stuff.
It is nice to have a 'standard' rather than voting for multiple items. At the same time, how much is liking something really doing for ya?
I don't think it has the benefit of a community like HN, so Facebook doesn't have it all yet.
I completely ignore all that social networking stuff; my brain sees them as ads and blocks them subconsciously.
I'm the same way. I often read articles that I would like to share with people, but since I'm more interested in the ensuing discussion, I'd rather directly link a person during a conversation (or as a way to start one) rather than throw it at my Facebook page or similar. I consider sites like HN quite different, as that is their sole purpose :)
Has anyone noticed the new Mahalo-esque stuff they're doing? All of your hobbies, movies, music, etc... that they're making part of this social graph is now linked together a lot better.
Example, one of my interests (for fun) is "underwater basket weaving" which now links to a page like this, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Underwater-basket-weaving/1...
"Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Underwater basket weaving, sign up and we'll let you know when we're ready for your help."
Pretty crazy.
I thought things were getting ridiculous with all the buzz, digg, sphere, reddit buttons already. From what I can see, those are being replaced with a single option (though I admit, I haven't seen many of the facebook implementations yet). It is nice to have a 'standard' rather than voting for multiple items. At the same time, how much is liking something really doing for ya? I don't think it has the benefit of a com…