Facebook’s controversial Open Graph API and web-wide ‘Like’ button has finally met its match – welcome to the ‘Open Dislike’ button.
German social aggregation service Yiid has launched the button, which web publishers can add to their websites. If you don’t like what you see on the site, just click the button and it keeps a track of how many ‘Dislikes’ each page has got.
Just like Facebook’s Like button, you need to be logged in to use it. Don’t expect this button to see the high take-up Facebook’s Like button has seen, simply because Yiid just isn’t that big. Would you really join Yiid just to show your dislike of something?
Still, as a promotional tool for Yiid, it’s a great idea. Anti-Facebook sentiment is running high in certain corners of the web and we can see some website owners adding this button simply to express their dislike of Facebook’s grand plans to take over the Internet by having a social presence on as many sites as possible.
Yiid won’t have made any friends at Facebook with this move, but the German team might have bigger problems. Microsoft yesterday announced Messenger Connect, a service that sounds highly similar to Yiid’s aim of being ‘Your Internet ID’, with all your social profiles rolled into one.
Is it odd that the Facebook Open Graph “Like” button is included after this article??
It is odd that there is no “Dislike” demo button in the article. :-)
Does this work:
works like a charm, but as my boss marco said, we’ll spend more time on usability & stuff.. :)
Ouch, that works but you end up at a very ugly, German language only, login screen. Not very inviting at all…
Yeah, it’s more effective a statement than it is an app :)
Soo putting this on the NEW TNW post :)
:-) Hello,
as you can see .. I disliked this article (only for demo).
@Boris .. I promise to improve the login screen.
Hey sure is this more power full article about the facebook notifications….meet again thanks many for sharing…
Wow that’s nice!I hate the ‘Like’ button and so I was looking for some way to disable it.I will get it done soon.
… BTW .. you need an admin ID to implement the FB Like button.
I implemented the dislike button. Anyone who doens`t like the dizlike idea is now able to dislike my article “I don`t like I like it!!!”
Nice concept but practical implementation will be very low. Specially when this tool requires login. I believe Facebook should add a dislike button, this will give us clear idea about link popularity
A lot of news about our Dislike Button.
We switched to http://www.yiid.it to bring out a lot of new features.
Regards
Marco
Was desperately searching a way of adding the LIKE button on a tab of a facebook fan page. The like button has been implemented on a facebook fan page at
http://www.facebook.com/webwhispers
Now you can use Negativator facebook application to mark some pages as disliked: http://apps.facebook.com/negativator/
It’s really simple: just drag “I don’t like” link into your bookmarks and press it on any page which you don’t like. A post about your vote will be published on you Facebook’s wall but instead of saying “Someone likes something” it will be “Someone does not like …”.