Facebook recently announced the Live Stream Box, which lets webmasters integrate a real-time social viewing experience on their site. A spokesperson for Facebook tells murdok, “Yesterday, CNN.com, MTV.com and other major networks implemented the technology for Michael Jackson’s Memorial, where about 1 million users posted approximately 800,000 status updates in just a few hours.”
Today Facebook has announced another social widget that webmasters can use to bring the Facebook experience to their site. It’s called the Fanbox. “Facebook Page owners can now add the Fan Box, a Facebook Connect-enabled widget, to their website with a few lines of code to bring content from their Facebook Page into their site and convert visitors into fans on Facebook,” the spokesperson says.
To include the Fan box, you only need to grab a few lines of javascript from your Facebook page. Simply click “Add Fan Box to your site,” which is located underneath your page’s profile picture. Once you click it, you can choose whether or not you want to include the stream and fans. Further customization options can be found here.
This could be a great way to increase your number of fans on Facebook. In turn, this can of course increase traffic to your site, and theoretically, it can continue in that fashion.
Keep in mind, the Fan Box comes equipped with a “Become a Fan” button, which might look nice on your site. You can see how this can easily lead to a nice boost in Facebook fans. More info on the box here.
