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A Digg for Facebook Likes: My Experiment (thelikestream.com)
49 points by ed on Sept 23, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments



Amazing 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?


Love 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.


Thanks, Luke! Apparently social widgets are suffering platform-wide: http://developers.facebook.com/live_status

Perfect timing.


Can like buttons be recreated using Facebook APIs?


Open TechCrunch and take a look at the net tab -- Facebook and Twitter are killing the web.


Love 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.


This 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.


This 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!


Love the concept. I think it's a great idea. Wish you all the best.


cool 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.


Hey 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?


This 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.


thoughts on a similar existing service? http://likebutton.me/


Yes, this is a very good idea.




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