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Facebook launches comments widget for web publishers
VentureBeat —
Facebook’s Connect service already lets users comment on news articles and other web-wide content using their Facebook identities. Now the company is taking another step, by letting web publishers install the actual Facebook comments interface within their own sites. For web publishers who just want their comments tightly integrated with Facebook, this could help drive up interaction on their sites. Connect isn’t just a distributed identity service, it shows your friends on Facebook where you’re leaving comments, potentially getting them to check an article out, too.
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Facebook Releases Connect-Based “Comments Box” Widget for Websites
Inside Facebook —
Facebook has just released its first in-house widget built on Facebook Connect tonight: the “Comments Box.”
With the Comments Box, users can login through Facebook Connect and leave comments on your website with their real name and profile picture from Facebook. It’s an easier way for websites to integrate social features through Facebook without developing or managing custom plugins. A full list of Facebook Connect-enabled plugins is available here.
When users post comments on your site with the Comments Box widget, they will also have the option to share their comments on their ...
Facebook Connect Adds a Cut-and-Paste Comments Widget
Mashable! —
Social is the new trend for both Google and Facebook’s Connect platforms. Just a week after Google’s social bar announcement, Facebook’s getting even more social too.
The social networking powerhouse is making it even easier for bloggers and publishers to incorporate comments on their sites from Facebook members, with the brand new Comment Box social widget for Facebook Connect. The widget lets publishers enable comments from Facebook users on their blog with simple cut and paste code, and in turn, have those Facebook users publish the comments back to their Facebook profiles.
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Facebook Launches Commenting Widget
ReadWriteWeb —
Facebook launched its first social widget for use outside of Facebook's own site today: the Comments Box. The Comments Box is a comments widget that was built on top of Facebook Connect, and that will allow bloggers and publishers to easily implement a Facebook Connect enabled commenting system on their sites. A number of sites already used Facebook Connect to make it easier for their users to sign in to their services and leave comments, but this is the first time that Facebook itself ventures into this business.
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Comments Box widget for Facebook Connect Launched
D' Technology Weblog —
Facebook launched a new social widget “Comments Box” for Facebook Connect. The widget let website, blog or photo gallery to add social comments to their page with few lines of code. With the Comments Box, Facebook users on your site can comment on your content, post those comments to their profiles, and share them with their friends on Facebook. The Comments Box allows non-Facebook users to make comments on your site as well. And via APIs, you can access related comments made on Facebook as well to bring the conversation ...
Facebook Introduces Comments Box Widget
WebProNews Feed —
[image] First widget for Facebook Connect Facebook has launched its first social widget for the recently launched Facebook Connect, called Comments Box. Comments Box can be added to any Web site or blog and it allows other Facebook users to comment on any of the content. The widget also allows non-Facebook users to comment on content as well. The Facebook Developer Blog provides details on how to add the Comments Box widget to any site. To add the Comments Box to your site, follow these simple instructions: Set up a basic Connect application. Take note of the API key and specify a callback URL to your website. Download this ...
Facebook invades your blog, rest of Web with new Comment Box
Ars Technica —
Continuing its march to Google's beat, Facebook has taken another major step towards dominating both the social Web and your blog with its first social widget, called the Comment Box. Built on Facebook Connect, this easily embeddable box turns Facebook into a hosted comment system, and it brings some interesting conversational features to the mix.
Detailed on the Facebook Developers blog and wiki, the company's new Comment Box allows any website or blog owner to use Facebook for their comment system. A snippet of code can be added to static pages, or CMSes like Movable Type and WordPress ...
First Facebook Widget Brings Comments to Your Blog
Wired: Epicenter —
... Facebook Connect is getting in on the widget game. The service, which allows people to sign in to any supported site using their Facebook credentials, was previously available as an API for web developers, but the company has rolled out a new Comments Box widget which makes it dead simple to add Facebook Connect-powered comments to any website. ...
Facebook's First In-House App? A Comments Box (Yawn)
paidContent —
... Why would Facebook wait this long to release something so similar to preexisting comment-based apps like Disqus and JS-Kit? Facebook acknowledges in its blog post about the Comments Box that these other players offer fine services. But perhaps this also something to do with it: with every new app it launches on its own, Facebook crowds out other widget-based startups, and helps siphon their revenue streams. ...
Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
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... and released a blog commenting widget powered by Connect. Since then they've also talked about how they wish to support the Activity Streams project and have reiterated their commitment to the sort openness that we've been promoting as key pieces of the social web. ...
How To: Create a Comments Box with Facebook Connect in 5 Minutes
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