New "Suggested Share" Tag Makes Pushing Content More Targeted

This clever open-source tag pulls in a reader's friends' "likes," and suggests that they share the content with friends with matching interests.

This clever open-source tag pulls in a reader’s friends’ “likes,” and suggests that they to share the content with friends with matching interests.

“Suggested Share” is developer Tom Waddington’s XFBML tag baby, which you can find on his website. The idea became one of the three winners at this year’s Facebook London Hackathon (an event for developers), chosen by Mr. Zuckerberg himself.

Similar tags -like the ubiquitous official Facebook “Share”- allow someone to either spread content to all their friends by putting it on their own profile, or handpick friends and send them the link via private message.

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