Yuku has added a social networking option that allows you to "Like" posts with your facebook account at the click of a button. It will share with all your friends that you like a post on here.
Basically, it's a way to link your facebook and yuku account. I have it disabled right now.
Is this something you would be interested in? To see it in action, go to http://support.yuku.com. It's on the Yuku bar at the top.
Here is the explanation from one of developers who I would guess that English is not their first language:
Basically, it's a way to link your facebook and yuku account. I have it disabled right now.
Is this something you would be interested in? To see it in action, go to http://support.yuku.com. It's on the Yuku bar at the top.
Here is the explanation from one of developers who I would guess that English is not their first language:
We are reaching to you directly with the
hopes that sharing valuable information will empower you in making your
own decision: if and what kind of promotion you would like to apply to
strengthen your communities and welcome new fresh members in. We will
try to help you understand what are some of the tools (and how they
work) that will help you
invite the right people and friends and ensure that people that have
same passion and thoughts like you still have a way to find your artists
fan clubs, support groups, news and tips sharing, sport team
sites, etc, etc.
As a quiet revolution caused by social sites
democratizing ways people are finding Internet content and other people,
is overtaking a big part of referral traffic (incoming traffic from
external sites), away from big and
algorithm-controlled search engines. In the way social sites are
reclaiming recommendations back from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and other
powerful search engine houses and allowing your friends to recommend you
stuff without having to spam your mailbox.<div>
</div><div>"like"
button - together with re-tweet, buzz me and few other social plugins
are changing the structure of Internet links as it exists today. The
very same structure search results and page ranking are based on. What
makes Facebook "like" and Twitter "retweet" plugins more significant
then all others
are:</div><div>* size of Facebook and Twitter user-base</div><div>*
number of sites they have integrated it already</div><div>* the way data
is being stored</div><div></div><div>I will try to explain each of
these in more detail in the hope that you can understand it and use that
knowledge however it best fits you and your community.</div><div>
</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Lets start with Facebook "Like" button:</div><div>
</div><div>Size
of Facebook's active user base is 400M and growing strong. This means
that probably each and
every one of you reading this already have account or will open one
within next 6 months.</div><div>
</div><div>Data is coming from
here:</div><div>http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics</div><div>
</div><div>People
on Facebook:</div><div>
</div><div> * More than 400 million
active users</div><div> * 50% of our active users log on to Facebook
in any given day</div><div> * Average user has 130 friends</div><div>
* People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook</div><div>
</div><div>50.000
sites integrated like button in the first week after release and added
Like button and this number has doubled by now. This means that most of
the sites you are reading your news, chat with your friends, or finding
product you like
will have one of those buttons, if they don't already.</div><div>
Few
examples:
</div><div>*
http://www.cnn.com/2010/T...ok.changes.f8/index.html</div><div>*
http://techcrunch.com/201...ooks-new-social-plugins/</div><div>*
http://www.google.com/sea...ql=&oq=&gs_rfai=</div><div>
</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">So what does it do?</div><div>
</div><div>Whenever
somebody clicks on 'Like' button to express that they like content of
the page they are on, a link of that page will end up in their facebook
stream - letting their facebook friends know that they like the page.</div><div>
</div><div>This
is equivalent of what we used to do back in the days with posting links
to the sites we like on our boards, profile and blogs. This is
evolution of that activity simplified, using new technologies.</div><div>
</div><div>But
what happens with that information and how storing of it in different
place changes everything?</div><div>
</div><div>We in Internet
industry used to say: "If your site is not in the google results, your
site
does don't exists". That is changing and based on data we received from
most of the blogs, message boards, news site, facebook is taking over a
lead
in referrals (incoming internet traffic) and in many cases benefiting
sites with fresh visitors more than google itself.</div><div>
</div><div>If
you don't believe me ask google</div><div>
</div><div>http://www.google.com/sea...+than+google&spell=1</div><div>
</div><div>With
"like"
button this will change even more, as what used to be link
information (google page ranking was build based on it) that used to be
regular links (also known as anchor tags) are now stored in OpenGraph
and this is not accessible to google. So as people are saying to each
other they like your site on Facebook, Google has no way to detect these
relationships between the sites and site content anymore as links are
not publicly available as they used. Now only your friends can see it.</div><div>
</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Why does it matter?</div><div>
</div><div>As
we are aware of these big changes that are not obvious to everybody, we
try to do what we think it is best for our communities.</div><div>
</div><div>Yes,
upon your request we have built the button and then on another request
an option to turn if off and
all facebook referral traffic with it. Keep in mind that this almost
equivalent of saying
I don't want to show up in google search result 2 years ago. You can
use it but my recommendation is to not stop your users from sharing
great posts on your communities, cool images on your profiles albums,
and other stuff they would like to share with their personal friends as
they find it appropriate. If they don't like it they will not use it, we
developers or you can not force them to click it, but you can now force
them not to.</div><div>
</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">Does
it works?</div><div>
</div><div>Yes based on having it just for one
day, number of referrals from facebook increased by 4000% to your
communities. For every 1000 people there is 40.000, and that is all just
in one day.</div><div>
</div><div>By now I hope that you understand
that this is not something we invented but the way Internet is changing
and we have option to jump the train and stay behind. Same way we
optimized your pages markup for google crawler we added option to
promote your site using facebook.
</div><div>
</div><div>With
all respect that you know what is best for your users, with respect
that facebook does not let us change that blue on the button to fit
better with look of your boards, ask yourself do you really need to
decide for your users or they can figure it themselves. We give you
option, will you leave option for them?</div><div>
</div>Will
they have choice to share and recommend their own and their friends
posts and images on your communities with their own personal friends on
facebook?
