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Facebook Connect Now Generally Available As Well
Facebook Connect Now Generally Available As Well
Not an hour after Google announced the general availability of Friend Connect, Facebook is doing the same for its competing Facebook Connect service. Now any third party website that wants to pull personal data about visitors from Facebook - and send back activity reports to their news feeds ...
Facebook Security
facebook.com — Postcard Spam If a friend sends you a message or posts on your Wall with a link... to a postcard for you to open, don't click on it. Chances are it's a virus that may cause your Facebook account to become compromised. If you do click on one of these ... (more) Facebook Security
Facebook Across the Web
blog.facebook.com — Over the summer we announced an extension of Facebook Platform called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect makes it... easier for you to take your online identity with you all over the Web, share what you do online with your friends and stay updated on ... (more) Facebook Across the Web
Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
valleywag.com — So much for Silicon Valley's latest get-rich-quick scheme. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cancelled a plan to... let employees cash out their shares early. In August, before the markets started to melt down and with Facebook worth $15 billion on ... (more) Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
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Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect arrive
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Facebook Connect Has Arrived
techcrunch.com 12/1/2008 — Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace ( Data ...
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
nytimes.com 12/1/2008 — With Facebook Connect, users can log onto a variety of sites and see their friends’ activities there. >
Facebook Connect roll-out is starting soon
guardian.co.uk 12/1/2008 — Facebook Connect was announced in May as a way of using your Facebook identity on different sites, such as Digg. Since then, things have been quiet. However, The New York Times now has a big story, Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web , ...
Facebook Connect Set To Expand; Includes Discovery, Digg, Hulu and Others
paidcontent.org 12/1/2008 — Facebook, in an increasing attempt to prove its utility beyond its own site (and hence build on its advertising potential in the long run), is expanding its Facebook Connect service on some major media and services sites, including Discovery.com, ...
As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
blog.wired.com 12/2/2008 — 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 ...
Google Makes a Hard Push With Friend Connect
socialtimes.com 12/4/2008 — Tonight I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Friend Connect, Google’s open initiative to take of Facebook Connect. The service lets you login using your Google, Orkut, or Plaxo account. Both MySpace and Facebook decided to opt-out of ...
TechCrunch Is Now “In A Relationship” With Facebook Connect
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 — Facebook Connect is beginning to materialize and we’re on the ground floor: TechCrunch readers can now use their Facebook accounts to sign in before leaving comments. Doing so yields several benefits. Most immediately, you’ll no ...
Google Friend Connect Now Open To All Websites
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 — The battle over who will control access to your online identity is heating up. In the wake of more and more partners finally starting to take a shine to Facebook’s competing FB Connect (which we’ve just implemented ourselves on ...
Google Friend Connect: Try It Now on Mashable
mashable.com 12/4/2008 — Google Friend Connect , the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can ...
Facebook Connect is Here; It’s Like OpenID for Dummies
mashable.com 12/4/2008 — Facebook Connect is now open for business , allowing any developer to let users login to their websites using their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other key Facebook features, like your friends list, can now be integrated into third-party ...
Google Friend Connect launches, eyes Facebook Connect
arstechnica.com 12/4/2008 — It's a social day for web giants during a social season. Not content to let Facebook Connect hog the spotlight, Google has announced the public availability of Friend Connect, its similar, standards-based platform for single sign-on convenience and ...
Is Facebook Connect the Future of E-Commerce?
allfacebook.com 12/4/2008 — Jesse Pickard and Shiv Singh over at Avenue A | Razorfish have put together a presentation which highlights the future of Facebook Connect as integrated with e-retailers. The presentation highlights the potential for targeting influencers based on ...
Facebook Connect vs. OpenID: Who Will Emerge Victorious?
readwriteweb.com 12/4/2008 — Facebook Connect , the system the company has long discussed as "Facebook on sites all around the web," enters general availability today and we've got one big question - should website owners use Facebook or OpenID to authenticate and learn about ...
Google and Facebook Both Launch Friend Connect [Online Identity]
lifehacker.com 12/4/2008 — Expect to see a whole lot more Google and Facebook sign-in boxes on sites all over the web from today going forward: in what you'd think was a planned parallel announcement, Google and Facebook...
Google Friend Connect tries to sneak up on Facebook Connect (again)
venturebeat.com 12/4/2008 — Social network Facebook has been slowly rolling out its new service, Connect , over the last few months. The service lets users sign in to other sites using their Facebook identities, find Facebook friends on those sites and share information from ...
Data Portability Google and Facebook Style: Which One Will Webmasters Choose?Profy
Quite surprisingly Google and Facebook decided to announce general availability of their data portability programs - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect - on the very same day. This means that both Google and Facebook users will now be able to use their identities with Google or Facebook ...
Facebook Connect: Why It looks like a winnerPR News:
Facebook Connect has now launched Connect, their Web-wide sign-on system and the Washington Post has said that the new service certainly has potential, as it simplifies and enriches the social network site. Facebook Connect allows users to use their Facebook ID and password to sign in to ...
Facebook Connect Now Live on Inside FacebookInside Facebook
We’re excited to announce that Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games have both launched support for Facebook Connect integration as of this evening! Now, with Facebook Connect, Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games readers can: Login using your Facebook account to leave comments ...
Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web siteBetween the Lines
The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.(Techmeme) Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can ...
Facebook Connect to Widen the Social PlatformSolSie.com
Self-Service Lets Third Parties Use Facebook Connect to Tap into Social Graph Facebook tooday announced the ability for any Website to implement Facebook Connect, a service designed to make it easy for its more than 130 million active users to combine their Facebook experience with any ...
Facebook Connect Goes LiveSilicon Alley Insider
Facebook Connect, which allows the social network's users to sign into third-party Web sites using their Facebook handles, went live earlier today. Facebook Connect is important to Facebook, because its a way for the site to better understand how its users behave around the Web, even as ...
Facebook Connect Is Now Generally Available. Let the Identity Wars BeginWired: Epicenter
Facebook flipped the switch on its single sign-on technology Thursday. Facebook Connect can now be implemented by any site on the internet on a self-service basis through the company's platform for web developers . The company says over 100 websites have added Facebook Connect during the ...
Facebook Connect Now Open to All DevelopersInside Facebook
Well, it’s no longer just a PR war . Starting today, Facebook is opening Facebook Connect access to all developers and webmasters interested in integrating Facebook Connect into their sites. The service, which has been in beta since the summer, allows any site to integrate ...
Here's How Facebook Connect WorksWebProNews Feed
Facebook has just announced the general availability of Facebook Connect, its new service that allows users to login to other sites using their Facebook IDs and share there activities from these third-party sites with their Facebook friends. The service, "makes it easier for Facebook's ...
Why Facebook Connect winsWebware.com
Facebook is officially announcing today that the company's login system, Facebook Connect , is officially open for business for non-Facebook sites. Facebook is making the implementation of Facebook Connect self-service, so anyone that has a site with even a smidgen of community features can ...
TechCrunch Among First to Adopt Facebook ConnectAndy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
As we’ve already reported , it looks like Facebook Connect will be taking off after all. Facebook Connect gives you the ability to log into other websites via your Facebook account, track what your friends are doing on those sites, and also broadcast the comments you make on those sites ...
Websites Caught in Tug-o-War as Facebook and Google Launch “Connects”Inside Facebook
This week has been quite the week for both Facebook and Google, as both have released their “Connect” products more broadly to developers and webmasters over the last couple of days. Facebook’s Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect products are engaged in a game ...
Federal FacebookChanging Way
So Facebook Connect is expanding, as a whole raft of articles and posts reported. The news becomes rather more interesting when put in context. Om uses the Federate or Aggregate? context. Facebook Connect is an attempt to make Facebook the capital of the federation. Facebook Connect, which ...
Facebook Connect to help claim more internet real estateTech Digest
Facebook is looking to reach beyond its pages with the launch of a new idea that will allow users to log on to external sites with their same social networking credentials. Facebook Connect will launch on Digg, Hulu... > >
Facebook Connect expanding, creating difficulties for OpenIDTG Daily - All News
Facebook announced that it would begin rolling out its highly touted Facebook Connect login system for multiple high-profile websites, which include Digg, Hulu, and Discovery.com. The sites, in addition to a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks.
Facebook Connect expanding, creating difficulties for OpenIDTG Daily - Trendwatch News
Facebook announced that it would begin rolling out its highly touted Facebook Connect login system for multiple high-profile websites, which include Digg, Hulu, and Discovery.com. The sites, in addition to a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks.
Use Facebook Connect to log in to lots of sites at onceGadgetell
Section: Web , Web 2.0 , Web Apps , Websites Presumably having learned something from the Beacon fiasco, Facebook has announced a new feature very similar to it called Facebook Connect.  Facebook Connect will allow sites that choose to participate to share user names and logins, so once ...
Facebook Connect expands across the World Wide WebShiny Shiny
Facebook Connect, the service that aggregates user ID's across the web, was initially announced back in May as a way to use you web identity across a number of websites, including Digg, Twitter, SixApart and CitySearch. This means you can sign in participating sites with your Facebook ID, ...
Facebook Web Browser: Connect with other sitesPR News:
FaceBook has now launched their new service called Connect, which will allow FaceBook users to connect with another site via the networking portal. This means that a FaceBook user can use their login details to gain access to other sites. The first sites that will be linking with Connect are ...
Facebook Aims to be Web's Universal IDE-Commerce Times
Facebook said it will expand Facebook Connect, its universal log-in service, to integrate functionalities with more third-party Web sites. Originally announced at the social network's f8 conference in July, Facebook Connect is part of the next iteration of Facebook Platform and allows ...
CNET News Daily Podcast: Facebook, Google open competing servicesCNET News.com
Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect open to the public with moments of each other; Firefox plug-in turns Amazon.com into piracy heaven; and former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers asks for commuted sentence.
Facebook Connect: Scary but goodCNET News.com
Soon you'll be able to log in to sites like CNET with your Facebook ID.
Facebook Connect appears set for expansionCNET News.com
The service launched last spring that lets members log onto other Web sites using their Facebook profile looks to be readying for a new phase.