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Internet Video News
Facebook Enables Users to
Share Video, Photos, News, Blogs and More
from Anywhere on the Web
Leading
Websites Tap Into of Viral Sharing Among
Facebook Users
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Oct. 31, 2006 — Facebook,
the Internet’s leading social utility, today
announced that for the first time people can
access Facebook’s share functionality on
multiple websites to share video, photos,
news and other content with their friends on
Facebook. Websites that add a link to share
on Facebook will enable people to distribute
content by posting it on their Facebook
profiles or by sending it to specific
Facebook friends without ever leaving the
original website.
Barron’s Online, Boston.com,
CollegeHumor.com, eBaumsworld.com, edgeio,
GameSpot.com, Geffen, IDG Entertainment, The
Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Jumpcut.com,
MarketWatch.com, Miniclip.com, NBCSports.com,
the New York Times, People.com, Photobucket,
PureVideo Networks, SI.com, TerraPass Inc.,
The Onion, Time.com, TV.com, U.S. News &
World Report, the Wall Street Journal
Online, Washingtonpost.com, and Ziff Davis
Media are among the first sites to include a
link to share on Facebook.
“People share interesting content on the Web
and on Facebook all the time. Now we’re
making the sharing process more efficient by
giving people a simple structure to do it
in,” said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO,
Facebook. “We’re partnering with some good
companies to make it easier for people to
share that website’s content through
Facebook.”
When a Facebook user is surfing the Web and
clicks on the link to share on Facebook, a
share box pops up with a preview of the
content that will be sent. Users make some
choices about how and to whom they want to
share specific content and Facebook’s share
functionality distributes that content to
the appropriate users’ accounts.
To add the link to share on Facebook to your
website, please visit www.facebook.com/share_partners.php.
Partnered to Share on Facebook
Boston.com is one of the most visited
regional portals in the U.S. and is part of
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT),
which includes The Boston Globe and 15 other
daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated
television stations, two New York City radio
stations and 35 Web sites, including
NYTimes.com and About.com. The link to share
on Facebook will allow site visitors to
easily share stories from Boston.com with
their Facebook friends.
CollegeHumor.com was founded in 1999 by two
high school friends from Baltimore who went
to different colleges as a way to share all
of the pictures, videos, and links their
friends would IM and e-mail each other. Now
it’s a lot bigger. If something’s funny on
the Internet and on CollegeHumor.com, people
can send it to friends by clicking on the
link to share on Facebook.
CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET, www.
cnetnetworks.com) is an interactive media
company that builds brands for people and
the things they are passionate about, such
as gaming, music, entertainment, technology,
business, food, and parenting. CNET Networks
will launch a link to share on Facebook on
two of its leading brands, GameSpot and
TV.com.
Dow Jones Online (Barron’s Online, the Wall
Street Journal Online and MarketWatch.com)
is one of the Web’s largest publishers of
original business news and financial
information. The link to share on Facebook
will be featured on the Dow Jones Online
network of sites.
eBaum's World (www.eBaumsworld.com) is the
most well-known source on the Web for
finding hilarious video clips, playing fun
and interactive games, watching the latest
and greatest animations, and getting your
daily dose of humor. The link to share on
Facebook will allow eBaum’s World visitors
to easily share humor-related content with
their friends.
edgeio enables real-time distributed
marketplaces. Content owners of any size,
whether they are individuals or large online
stores, can submit listings to edgeio and
have their listings appear throughout the
edgeio network. The link to share on
Facebook will enable edgeio content to be
shared.
Geffen has a diverse legacy of music and
embraces a vast array of artists covering
the full spectrum of music around the world.
The link to share on Facebook will be on
Geffen artists website pages for people to
easily share links to their favorite artists
and music with friends.
The IDG Entertainment Online Network is the
third-largest games information network
worldwide with over 9 million unique
visitors per month, according to comScore.
The link to share on Facebook will be
included on GamePro.com.
The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)
is the world's most comprehensive source of
information for movies, TV, and celebrities.
IMDb also offers the subscription services
IMDb Pro for Hollywood insiders, and IMDb
Resume where actors and crew can create
their resume, photo gallery, and even build
an IMDb page for themselves. By clicking on
the link to share on Facebook, IMDb visitors
can find movie-related information and then
share the links to friends.
Jumpcut provides a free online video editor
that makes it easy for anyone to create and
share movies on the Web. Facebook users can
import their photos from Facebook into
Jumpcut and combine them with video, titles
and effects to create a movie. The link to
share on Facebook will be featured on
Jumpcut.com so users can easily share their
Jumpcut movies on Facebook.
Miniclip.com is the Internet's largest
online games Website with 30 million unique
users per month - source comScore Media
Metrix, March, 2006. Miniclip.com games are
the most played online games and are
syndicated across more websites than any
other games. By clicking on the link to
share on Facebook, users can send direct
links to games on Miniclip.com to their
friends.
NBC Universal is one of the world's leading
media and entertainment companies in the
development, production, and marketing of
entertainment, news, and information to a
global audience. The company will include
the link to share on Facebook on all
NBCSports.com story pages.
The New York Times Company's digital
operations provide high-quality news and
information. The company’s core purpose is
to enhance society by creating, collecting
and distributing high-quality news,
information and entertainment. The link to
share on Facebook will soon be posted so
readers can share news stories from all
NYTimes.com web pages.
The Onion is a national newspaper and
website that offers award-winning news and
views that readers can't get anywhere else.
Using the link to share on Facebook, the
Onion readers can now share the
attention-grabbing headlines and renowned
photojournalism that paint a picture of the
world to inform the educated and the stupid
alike.
Photobucket is an online personal media hub
for photos, videos and graphics.
Photobucket’s 27 million users can now share
their Photobucket images and videos on
Facebook with just one click of the link to
share on Facebook.
PureVideo Networks (purevideonetworks.com)
is a leading broadband publisher dedicated
to compelling video and the people who
produce it. StupidVideos.com and GrindTV.com
collectively stream more than sixty million
videos to over six million monthly unique
users.
TerraPass enables individuals to balance out
the global warming impact of their cars,
plane travel, and home energy use by funding
clean energy projects that reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. Twenty thousand TerraPass
members have together eliminated over 150
million pounds of carbon dioxide. The link
to share on Facebook will help this growing
community share energy-saving tips from
www.terrapass.com.
Time Inc. is the world’s leading magazine
publisher, with approximately 150 titles
that are read more than 300 million times
worldwide on a monthly basis. The company’s
businesses and content delivery extend to
television, satellite radio, mobile devices,
events, branded products and websites that
receive more than 1.35 billion page views
each month. People can use the link to share
on Facebook to send content to friends from
the Time.com, People.com, and SI.com
websites.
U.S. News & World Report is devoted to
reporting and analyzing politics, business,
health, science, social trends, and national
and international affairs. Through its
annual rankings of America's Best Colleges,
Best Graduate Schools and America's Best
Hospitals, and its News You Can Use brand,
U.S. News has earned a reputation as the
leading provider of service news and
information that improves the quality of
life of its readers. U.S. News will launch a
link to share on Facebook so site visitors
can easily share content with their Facebook
friends.
On Washingtonpost.com, news is not a one-way
street. Our award-winning reporting starts a
dialogue, a fast-and-furious exchange among
millions of people around the globe. The
stories on washingtonpost.com inform these
conversations with our world-class
reporting, and facilitate true interactivity
with tools like the link to share on
Facebook, which gives Facebook friends the
ability to share the stories that interest
them faster and easier than ever before.
Ziff Davis' 1UP Network (www.1UP.com) is a
leading integrated media network serving the
videogame market with Web properties
including community and editorial hub
1UP.com, file download site FileFront.com,
video site GameVideos.com, game help site
MyCheats.com, news aggregator GameTab.com,
and video podcast The 1UP Show. The link to
share on Facebook will enable gamers on
1UP.com to easily share news, reviews, and
previews with their friends on Facebook.
About Facebook
Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook helps people better understand the
world around them by developing technologies
that facilitate the spread of information
through social networks. The site has over
11 million registered users in over 40,000
geographic, work-related, collegiate, and
high school networks, and according to
ComScore’s MediaMetrix report, ranks as the
seventh-most trafficked site in the United
States with 16.5 billion page views in
September 2006. Facebook is privately held
and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
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