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Beetailer (YC W11) Helps Online Retailers Set Up Shop On Facebook (techcrunch.com)
74 points by nickel on March 20, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



From the article...

> Beetailer allows retailers to launch time-limited, Facebook-specific promotions, including prizes and discounts for fans who like, comment, ...

From http://developers.facebook.com/policy/

> You must not incentivize users to use (or gate content behind the use of) Facebook social channels, or imply that an incentive is directly tied to the use of our channels.

Or are comments and likes not considered social channels?


I've never read that policy, but what's interesting is virtually every brand on Facebook uses "Like gating" (you have to Like the page before seeing the real content) for contests and promos. Either that doesn't fall under that policy, or Facebook just doesn't care.


Likes can be incentivized as long as "any incentive you provide must be available to new and existing users who Like your Page." Which means that anyone who previously "liked" the page should also get the reward, and this seems easy enough to do.


It looks they built their own custom comment widget. You are absolutely allowed to incentivize users to use your own app's functionality.


Is it just me or does that Bont logo look a little like the HTML5 logo? http://www.w3.org/html/logo/


Is that Chicago on the homepage? Brings me right back to my Mac Plus days.


(YC Winter 2011)




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