TechBytes: Facebook Simplifies Sharing

April 22, 2010— -- Facebook introduced new tools Wednesday that extend its reach online. The most noticeable change will be hundreds of millions of "Like" buttons on Internet sites. When a user clicks on one of the buttons, all their Facebook friends can see what they like.

"One of the interesting things about this approach is it's really kind of going after Twitter a little bit," said Nick Bilton of the New York Times. "By Facebook placing these little 'Like' buttons all over the web, you don't have to copy the URL and come back and paste it somewhere. You can just literally click this little 'Like' button, and so they're really trying to compete with people sharing information online."

Facebook said it hopes that by sharing this information, websites will be able to offer more personalized content.

Baseball fans will soon be able to follow their favorite teams on the PlayStation 3. Sony was expected to announce today that it has signed a deal with Major League Baseball to broadcast live streaming games on the video game console. PlayStation owners will be able to subscribe to MLB.TV by the end of the week. But subscribers can only watch out-of-market games. The home town team will be blacked out.

If your computer was acting funny at work Wednesday, constantly rebooting itself, you were not alone. A glitch in McAfee's anti-virus software caused it to identify a normal Windows file as a virus. The company wouldn't say how many computers were affected, but thousands of people posted complaints online. The company says it has posted an update for download.

Martha Stewart has conquered books, magazines and television. Now she has a recipe to tackle video games. Her company has announced a deal with a video game publisher to develop and produce interactive games based on Stewart's cooking, cleaning and crafts . Women are said to make up 40 percent of the gaming market, but very few titles are geared toward them.