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Facebook Connect appears set for expansion
Webware.com —
... The New York Times, in a big-picture story Sunday about the social network's plans to extend its reach across the Web, notes that the Facebook Connect service is gearing up for expansion: ...
Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction it needs to take. A sharp increase in the number of web services and social networks has many of us yearning for a single sign-on, which has lead to the idea of “federation.” On the flip side, we also want one place to manage our diverse web services in one place — aggregate. These two diametrically ...
Facebook Connect Readies for Broader Distribution with Digg and Hulu
ReadWriteWeb —
... have all been rushing to take the lead in this next phase. Today, The New York Times reports that Facebook has taken another step forward by delivering Connect functionality to new crop of sites. ...
Facebook Connect: The News is the News
Mashable! —
... The New York Times has an extensive story about Facebook Connect and its imminent expansion to new services: Digg, Hulu, Discovery, CBS and several others. However, looking back at the initial announcement of ...
Linkpost | 12.1.2008
TechBlog —
... - Promise of 40 percent refunds for all things HP got waylaid by Microsoft's Live Search problems. • Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web - Facebook Connect lets you access the social site's content in controlled form from other sites. • ...
What Does Everyone Think About Facebook Connect?
WebProNews Feed —
[image] Just Another Beacon? Facebook Connect was announced back in May and has just recently begun to see the light of day. Since the announcement, the obligatory privacy concerns have been raised, but Facebook hoping to nip that in the bud has made it very clear that users can choose whether or not they wish to share information, a feature that was also available with the resurfacing of Beacon a while back. We believe the next evolution of data portability is about much more than data. It s about giving users the ability to take their identity and friends with them around the Web, while being able to trust that their information is always up to date and always protected ...
Facebook Connect – Great Feature or Another Privacy Nightmare?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
By Carrie Hill
First announced back in May, Facebook Connect rolled out this weekend and now you can take your followers with you. Specifically – you can now use your Facebook credentials to log into other sites across the web and see your Facebook friends’ activity on those sites.
Amid concerns over privacy – many sites are on tap to add this functionality to their own platforms – soon you will be able to see your Facebook friends on Discovery Channel sites, Digg, Hulu and more.
Instead of keeping information and platforms close to their chests – many Silicon Valley giants are looking to share at least a small amount of information if it ...
Facebook Connect Expands, Aims To Shrinking The Web
The Channel Wire —
... like CBS, Hulu, The San Francisco Chronicle and a few others. The idea behind Facebook Connect is pretty straightforward. When logged into Hulu, for example, Facebook members will be able to let their friends know that they're watching a particularly funny video. Or, for a site like Digg, friends can see which articles users have Dugg. Again, the idea is to expand the reach of Facebook by making the site more social across a larger swath of the Web. According to a feature in the New York Times , one of the driving factors behind Facebook Connect is to create ...
Facebook Connect Expands, Aims To Shrinking The Web
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... like CBS, Hulu, The San Francisco Chronicle and a few others. The idea behind Facebook Connect is pretty straightforward. When logged into Hulu, for example, Facebook members will be able to let their friends know that they're watching a particularly funny video. Or, for a site like Digg, friends can see which articles users have Dugg. Again, the idea is to expand the reach of Facebook by making the site more social across a larger swath of the Web. According to a feature in the New York Times , one of the driving factors behind Facebook Connect is to create ...
Facebook Gets a New York Times Article
All Facebook —
... today about a New York Times article which covers the ramp up in Facebook Connect sites launching. It has sparked a dialogue among a few about data portability and what the future holds. I’m not quite sure if the New York Times article is a sign of an impending public release of Facebook Connect or if the story is really that a few pre-announced partner sites are preparing to launch their sites. ...
Facebook Takes Pole Position on Data Portability Over Google, MySpace
Google Watch —
... fiasco that let users see what their friends were doing, purchases, entertainment tastes, etc.
Why cross the normally sacrosanct social networking boundaries? The three companies will tell you, with honeyed, philanthropic tones, they want the Web to be more social. Well, sure, but there is also potential for greater advertising opportunities, some folks believe.
Noting that advertisers don't know how to advertise on Facebook, Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group, told The New York Times:
...If you take a group of Facebook friends and put them on a ...
News Bits: Welcome to Cyber Monday
Contentinople: —
... is once again attempting to stalk you , this time with the slightly more subtle Facebook Connect. This new feature allows users to log into other sites with their Facebook login information and see what their Facebook friends are up to on those sites, The New York Times reports. So far, sites like ...
Why Facebook wants to spam your News Feed [Social Networks]
Gawker: valleywag —
... There's a threat to Facebook's dominance — and it's not the one you'd think. Privacy is the bugaboo everyone brings up. The company has launched a new program, Facebook Connect, which links other websites into Facebook's News Feed, the site's tattletale compendium of their friends' online activities. Connect, which is profiled in today's Times, is similar in some ways to Beacon, a feature which outraged privacy activists around this time last year when it revealed Facebook users' holiday purchases. But Beacon proved a short-lived Grinch; Facebook rapidly modified ...
Facebook Connect: The Money is in the Feeds
Inside Facebook —
As Facebook steps up the press around Facebook Connect this week, much of the discussion in the media trades around the business model for Facebook Connect is focusing on its potential to enhance contextual advertising on Connect-enabled websites.
But while supplemental demographic data and social endorsements will inevitably improve website ad performance in the long run, the real business behind Facebook Connect lies in its potential to make Facebook a communication platform for the whole web. If successful, Facebook Connect could increase ...
Facebook Connect: Scary but good
Webware.com —
... features of the sites.
Users get convenience. Sites get more users. Central registration authorities get incredibly valuable user behavior data. I do think everyone wins. Although nothing is free: There's more potential for abuse, on the part of sites and identity providers, than ever.
CNET is scheduled to launch support for Facebook Connect tomorrow.
Further Reading:
Facebook Connect appears set for expansion.
New York Times: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web.
TechCrunch: Biggest Battle Yet For Social ...
As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
Wired: Epicenter —
... On Monday, Facebook announced it will soon roll out its Facebook Connect login system to several high-profile websites, including Digg, Hulu and Discovery.com. The sites, along with a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks. The New York Times has the scoop. ...
MySpace helps develop OpenID extension for Flock
Webware.com —
... There are deeper reasons for MySpace being so vocal about OpenID support, though. The standard has seen its toughest rival yet in the form of Facebook Connect, a data-portability project which enjoyed a high-profile New York Times writeup this week and will reportedly be ...
A Shake-Up at LinkedIn
Bits —
... at the company and all LinkedIn executives will report to him. In an interview, the three executives said Mr. Nye’s departure was amicable and marked a natural transition at the company, which is working on making its service more interesting and essential to its 32 million users, many of whom have set up a profile on the site but rarely use it regularly. As users spend more and more time on other social networks like Facebook and MySpace — and use their identities on those services to access the rest of the Web — LinkedIn needs to find a way to get people to spend more time ...
Facebook Is No Friend of Power.com
Bits —
... offering a product that solicits, stores and uses Facebook login information to access information stored on Facebook computers without authorization and to display Facebook copyrighted material without permission.” Power.com also sent misleading e-mail advertisements to the friends of Facebook users, according to the complaint. They bore return addresses that ended with “facebookmail.com” and said that they came from “The Facebook Team.” Facebook has requested that Power.com use Facebook Connect , a service that allows Facebook users to access their Facebook identity and ...
Facebook Finally Gives Apps Some Love
Bits —
It seems like a very long time ago that installing the vampire application on Facebook, or tracking the countries you have visited, was considered a fashionable thing to do on the social network. Ever since it unveiled its platform back in 2007, Facebook seemed to devote more time and attention to expanding its platform outward, via programs like Facebook Connect , and to reorganizing itself around the controversial ...
