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Well, yes and no. Actually I do like Facebook, but this is about the new Like-button and how you can like anything. But what’s the difference between “approved” partners and the rest of us?

Anyone can add the new like functionality to their website – as I have in the right column just below the share options. And as you can see on the front page in the “recommendations” box, someone likes (mostly me for this purpose) different parts of my website. But what is the difference between the likes on my page and the likes of IMDb movies like The Godfather, which has 741 likes at current?

Well, one major difference is that I can “tag” The Godfather in my status, but not pages from my website (here trying to tag .

And it is not just a question of my website being very small and with few interactions, because if I create a like button for an external website such as the video Conservative Libertarian from The Daily Show:

Because, even though 25,069 people like this video alongside me (yes, it really has that many likes!), it still cannot be tagged:

Further more, Facebook just today launched, that pages are integrated much nicer on your user info tab including former and present employers, educational institutions, cities etc as well as organizing all the pages you like – internal and external. Some partner external pages you like are correctly displayed in the categories where they belong – e.g. movies and television series:

But other external pages that you like are now not displayed at all (they were yesterday) – including external partner pages like youtube videos or CNN articles. It does make sense though, as both these are temporary, but what if you have a website of movie recommendations, wouldn’t it be nice, that if a user liked one these individual posts, it would show up in the user’s “movies” info section?

So, is there any other difference between being a partner website and just a regular website other than the inability to tag the pages and not be able to have them shown on your info tab?

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