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The Washington Post overdoses on Facebook (someguysblog.com)
57 points by Gertig on Dec 27, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



The WashPo publisher Don Graham is on Facebook's board. They're always first to roll out any sort of Facebook site integration.


Looks like Facebook is taking over the page, not integrating with it. The top links are especially redundant.


From http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1691466/100k-sites-like-fa...

... 50,000 sites had installed the plug-ins, such as the "Like" and "Recommend" buttons. Here are the four most noteworthy brands mentioned in the blog:

- WashingtonPost.com's traffic from Facebook skyrocketed by 290 percent.


See. My previous comment above. I do wonder sometimes if Graham's presence on the board gives WashPo less visible benefits as well.


A little more than a year ago the washington post hired away a senior editor from huffington post to lead their "digital products" or something like that, basically integrate with social networking sites like facebook and twitter. Hence all the buttons you see in this post.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1009/WaPo_hir...


You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

What?




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