Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“Facebook I believe was going to call it the awesome button. And then at some point right before launching, I think Mark personally made the call, it’s just too weird.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…He must not have stayed very long if at all, because he went to YC I think after that. Okay, so FriendFeed invents the like button. Facebook I believe was going to call it the awesome button. And then at some point right before launching, I think Mark personally made the call, it’s just too weird. Let’s go with like. The story as I understand it is that Facebook had been considering something like this for a long time. The benefits are obvious. If you have a lightweight way to engage and feed more data about vote positive votes on posts into the newsfeed algorithm, that’s going to really turbocharge things.…
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