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Facebook Adds Social Networking: Link Sharing

Posted in Beta, Interface, Web 2.0 by Elliott Back on October 28th, 2006.

Facebook just added a new feature they’re calling “Link Sharing.” Basically, after installing the following bookmarklet into your taskbar, you can share links on facebook with your friends:

javascript:
var d = document;
var f = 'http://www.facebook.com/share';
var l = d.location;
var e = encodeURIComponent;
var p = '.php?src=bm&v=3&u=' + e(l.href) + '&t=' + e(d.title);
try {
if(!/^(.*\.)?facebook\.[^.]*$/.test(l.host))
throw(0);
share_internal_bookmarklet()
} catch(z){
a = function(){
if(!window.open(f+’r'+p,’sharer’, ‘toolbar=0, status=0, resizable=0, width=626, height=436′))
l.href=f+p;
};
if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
setTimeout(a,0);
} else {
a();
}
}
void(0);

Clicking on this link will popup a Facebook “sharing” window which looks like this:

facebook-sharing-01.jpg

Once you actually share the media, they appear on your wall, and the walls and link inboxes of the people you choose to share with:

facebook-sharing-02.jpg

You can read more at the official facebook blog or from TechCrunch’s Facebook Beta Testing Social Bookmarking.

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One Response to “Facebook Adds Social Networking: Link Sharing”

  1. Spyko says:

    Cool feature, I will try this out. Thanks

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