With Facebook Connect, Google Has Unique Integration Opportunity
louisgray.com — ... has opened up the opportunity for any 3rd party site to integrate with Facebook, all via a special login button and form Facebook provides. Such technology is enabled through a product Facebook calls Facebook Connect. In playing with Google's product, it enables one to authenticate through other services and allow porting of friend data and more through its FriendConnect interface. I believe Google now may just have the unique opportunity to finally integrate Facebook as they wanted to before. ...

Five old-fashioned Web concepts that need to die
Webware.com — ... is a solution, although it's conceptually a bit too weird to get mainstream adoption right now. Facebook Connect is another good universal log-in. ...

Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Mashable! — ... As you can see, they are planning on having Mail, the Front Page, Search, Media and other partner sites integrated with the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP). By having a widget or application that can also use the Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP), a developer has a huge number of possibilities. The additional benefit of using these APIs is that you can have a social widget on your own site much like the initial plans for Google’s Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. Yahoo may be having problems right now with their leadership, ...

Contas do Gmail também já podem ser usadas como logins OpenID
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... que em breve também deverão tornar-se provedores OpenID são AOL e MySpace. O Facebook também seria um forte candidato, mas possui um programa concorrente, chamado Facebook Connect. Diante da adoção em larga escala do OpenID, quem sabe ele também adira ao próprio no futuro. ...

Some Thoughts on Facebook Connect and CitySearch
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... site uses Facebook Connect to allow Facebook users to sign-in to the site and bring their social network with them to CitySearch. Below is a screenshot of the sign-in experience ...

Facebook Connect Set To Expand; Includes Discovery, Digg, Hulu and Others
paidContent — ... 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, SFChronicle, Digg, Citysearch, CBS.com, Hulu and others. The Connect service allows a federated identity system of sorts, competing with other services/efforts such as ...

Federal Facebook
Changing 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 ...

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 ...

Facebook Launches Connect, Finally [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Given how much has already been written about Facebook Connect, you would think that the service has been available for eons. In fact the service that was first announced in May — which allows you to use your Facebook login to access Facebook’s partner web sites, desktop apps or mobile devices, then broadcast what you’re doing on those sites to all of your Facebook friends — officially launched today. ...

Facebook Connect is Here; It’s Like OpenID for Dummies
Mashable! — ... 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 applications, which can in turn send data back into Facebook and the News Feed. ...

Facebook Connect Now Open to All Developers
Inside Facebook — ... . Starting today, Facebook is opening Facebook Connect access to all developers and webmasters interested in integrating Facebook Connect into their sites. ...

Facebook Connect vs. OpenID: Who Will Emerge Victorious?
ReadWriteWeb — ... 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 their users? Will Facebook become a dominant identifier online? Will the OpenID community lose out to the company's proprietary system or will this challenge breathe new life into the movement for open source, standards based, federated user identity? ...

Facebook Connect Now Generally Available As Well
TechCrunch — ... 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 - can do so by first filling out a self-service application. ...

Oh No You Don’t, Google! Facebook Connect Now Generally Available, Too
TechCrunch — ... 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 - can do so by first filling out a self-service application. ...

Google Friend Connect - now available for everyone
The Next Web — ... in a limited beta since May but now it’s open to all webmasters (open beta).  Friend Connect uses open standards like OAuth and OpenID to accomplish this task. The websites which uses Friend Connect can also run OpenSocial applications created by OpenSocial developer community. It lets websites access username and password of the users along with friends list, feed massages, profile info, reviews and other info. Google Friend Connect competes with Facebook Connect and Myspace Data Availability in taking control over you ...

Facebook Connect Is Now Generally Available. Let the Identity Wars Begin
Wired: 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. ...

Google and Facebook Both Launch Friend Connect [Online Identity]
Lifehacker — ... and Facebook Connect products today, which allow web publishers to set up plug in sign-in and other social features to their web sites. All your online identity are belong to Google or Facebook? Tell us in the comments, and see a video demo of Google's Friend Connect here.

Google, Facebook Fight To Connect Friends
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... . "Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit. Additionally, websites that use Friend Connect become OpenSocial containers, capable of running applications created by the OpenSocial developer community." Facebook Connect represents a similar but more expansive system that allows third party Web sites to accept Facebook login information. It also provides users with the opportunity to share content created at a third-party Web site on Facebook. This ...

Facebook Connect to Widen the Social Platform
SolSie.com — ... 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 participating Website, desktop application or mobile device. Following several months of testing, Facebook Connect is now available to all interested third parties through a self-service application on Facebook Platform, at: http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php. ...

Data Portability Google and Facebook Style: Which One Will Webmasters Choose?
Profy — ... 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 on other sites that support one of the programs. These sites will allow their visitors to log in and use the already available information in their profiles as well as find friends already on the sites that they currently visit - and connect to them on these sites as well. ...

Facebook Connect Will Now Compete With Disqus? Too Dangerous Competitor
Profy — ... and Facebook Connect - I realized one thing: there is at least one type of services that can be seriously damaged by general availability of both programs to website owners - those working in the blog commenting field, like ...

Weekly Wrapup: Open Social Networks, Education 2.0, Nokia N97, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... Facebook Connect, the system the company has long discussed as "Facebook on sites all around the web," entered general availability this week and we had one big question - should website owners use Facebook or ...

Netvibes gets new layouts and OpenSocial support
Webware.com — ... At Monday's Le Web 3 conference in Paris, Netvibes announced the launch of its latest version which adds support for Google's OpenSocial and Facebook Connect, alongside several new ways to view widgetized content. The OpenSocial element may be one of the most interesting aspects, as it's now paired with Netvibe's Universal Widget API, allowing developers to create widgets that can pull information from a user's social network. In the example demoed at the conference, Netvibes showed off a weather widget which displayed the user's weather, ...

Uh oh, Facebook is About to Become the Internet
SitePoint — Don’t look now, but Facebook just did something brilliant. Something more important than the launch of their platform a year an half ago. Something that might just embed Facebook into the very fabric of the Internet — and that, like the title of this post, might only be mild hyperbole. It also might be dangerous. What Facebook did was officially launch Connect to the public. We described Connect in July as a second iteration of their failed Beacon ad platform — done right (from a user perspective) the second time around. Connect is ...

A week in, Facebook Connect trying to make a complete connection
VentureBeat — Facebook Connect is a new way for other web site owners to easily access Facebook user data. Having launched last week with more than 100 partners, the service is still finding its legs. At issue is how deeply partners are willing to integrate Connect’s features. Connect aims to make Facebook a sort of central social hub for the web, sending its 130 million users back and forth between its site and others. When another web site fully integrates Connect, Facebook users can sign into that site with a click of a button. They can then do things ...

Facebook Developer Garage in Israel
GO2WEB20 Blog — ... With all the excitement around Facebook Connect, this must be the best time to host a Developer Garage Meetup in Israel (the first of its kind). ...

6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now
Wired Top Stories — ... most web users have only a tenuous grasp of it. That's because on the social web, identity is no longer just who you are. It's who you know, how you know them and how much you want them to know about you. On the web, your identity is explicitly tied to your relationships, both with your friends and with the websites you visit. Three great technologies came to fruition this year to help you manage these complex interdependencies: OpenID, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. These ID systems all offer a way to take control of your social ...

Video Sites Lead Facebook Connect Implementation [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... Facebook’s authentication system for external sites, Facebook Connect, has only been out for a few weeks, but so far, video sites are contributing the greatest numbers of active users, according to AllFacebook. The leading site by far is Joost, with 13,121 users logging in via Facebook Connect, followed by Vimeo, with 5,961 Facebook Connect users. How-to video site Howcast also makes the list, in 17th place with 1,377 users. To be sure, these are miniscule numbers. ...

Brightkite hooks up with Facebook Connect, makes location-based stalking easier
VentureBeat — ... that it’s now officially integrated with Facebook Connect. Once authorized, the Brightkite application automatically updates your Facebook status and/or news feed with your location, photos, notes and anything else posted to Brightkite. One of the most recent updates to the service is that you can specify whether the action goes to your Facebook status or news feed. ...

Will the Online Identity War turn out like the XML Syndication War?
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... I've been spending some time thinking about the ramifications of centralized identity plays coming back into vogue with the release of Facebook Connect, ...

10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect
Mashable! — ... Facebook Connect mania has swept the Internet! Why create an account on a random website when you can click a single button to join? That is the power of ...

Want Proof OpenID Can Succeed? Just Scroll Down
Wired: Epicenter — ... and its companion technologies -- along with similar systems like Facebook Connect -- are in the midst of a whirlwind period of growth. Major sites like Google, Yahoo, MySpace and AOL have all recently embraced OpenID, which allows users to log in and participate on a website without registering and filling out a user profile on the new site. ...

MyWorkster launches Facebook Connect
901am — ... Full integration with Facebook Connect, enables both Facebook and MyWorkster users to login using Facebook usernames and passwords, integrate MyWorkster activity feeds into Facebook profiles, and share professional content on MyWorkster with friends on Facebook. ...

Data Portability and the Cloud
WebProNews Feed — ... Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together We've been hearing a lot these days about cloud computing and data portability. It only makes sense that we see some data portability through the cloud as well right? Confused yet? Think services like Facebook Connect combined with ...

Facebook developers promote iLife ‘09
The Apple Core — ... can easily share and tag photos from iPhoto directly to Facebook. With help from Facebook Connect , photo tags from iPhoto ’09 can be added to Facebook and generate Facebook notifications. A ...

Facebook Throws its Weight Behind OpenID
Wired: Epicenter — ... -- for the open-source single sign-on technology. Late last year, Facebook launched its own trusted authentication technology for letting its users log in and participate on other websites. The company's system, Facebook Connect, has since been implemented by around 4,000 websites, including numerous high-profile destinations like CitySearch and TechCrunch. ...

Breaking down the walled garden: Some thoughts on Facebook embracing OpenID and opening up status update APIs
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... Enabling social information to flow through the Web is one of the core goals of Facebook. In the two months since Facebook Connect became generally available, over 4,000 sites and desktop applications have gone live with the service. Users can now log into sites across the Web using their Facebook account, bring their identity and friends with them, and share information and experiences using the same features as they would with applications on Facebook. ...

Jaman introduces Facebook Connect
901am — Online destination for HD entertainment Jaman.com has implemented Facebook Connect to bring together friends and film enthusiasts around the world. With Facebook Connect, users can quickly and easily sign into Jaman using their already established Facebook account, with no need for users to register separately for Jaman. Members are able to access their Facebook friends already on Jaman, enabling a trusted social context, and can publish their movie-watching activities and film reviews back on Facebook. Recognizing that sharing plays an integral role in ...

GamesBeat 09 preview: an interview with Facebook’s top gaming dude
VentureBeat — ... , the web as a display device, and Facebook Connect as the social graph linking friends. Facebook is not just a platform for creating games on, it’s a great way to connect existing games to Facebook. We can pull in real-world identities. Those are interesting things that Facebook brings to the party. SGN was one of the leaders in that space. ...

Anatomy of "Connect"
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... in New Zealand working on my talk for tomorrow (Open, Social Web) and one of the things I've been thinking about is all of the different "Connect" applications and products that have recently sprung into existence. I mean, we have Facebook Connect, ...

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 ...

Chris Saad on Terms of Service issues: “Clear, jargon-free statements are needed.”
The Next Web — ... working hard to upgrade all the users to JS-Kit as smoothly as possible. Over the next year look for that process to be completed (sooner rather than later) and for both JS-Kit and Haloscan sites to continue to see massive improvements in features, speed, stability and support. Q: You of course support OpenID in your widgets, and we know Chris Saad as a co-founder of DataPortability. In the context of developments like Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect, what ...

Facebook's First In-House App? A Comments Box (Yawn)
paidContent — ... Facebook, as part of its Facebook Connect project, now finally has its first in-house app: a comments box, a widget that lets publishers embed a Facebook-style comments module on their site. Visitors can then post comments that link back to their Facebook profiles—which could ultimately net the publisher more traffic, since other Facebook users that see the comments might want to check out the article. The app's API lets publishers follow the conversation as it plays out on Facebook. ...

What's Your Digital Lifestyle?
Microsoft Watch — ... and many other services. I've abandoned some services and haven't yet become active on others. Companies and individuals have this sense that the digital lifestyle is larger than life—that people can defy physical laws and be two or more places at once. Where different digital services intersect/integrate, perhaps that's somewhat true. But if the connection is people, how many can you realistically be close to? How many places can you digitally be at once? Services like Facebook Connect or ...

Top 10 Social Sites for Finding a Job
Mashable! — ... For a free account, you get a profile, instant messenger built in the site, groups, events, your resume and more. The big differentiator is that it uses Facebook Connect to get your information. ...

Facebook Connect + Facebook Ads = A Social Ad Network
TechCrunch — ... to expect to see “the evolution of the advertising products” this year. One big evolutionary step the company is working on is the combination of Facebook Connect and ...

Yahoo! Updates + Yahoo! Social Directory API (aka Yahoo! Connect)
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... Facebook launched this trend with their announcement of Facebook Connect which offered an alternative to OpenID by offering a smoother user experience and the opportunity for sites to also leverage their news feed as a viral distribution mechanism. According to the Yahoo! Developer blog there is now a similar offering from Yahoo! announced in their post ...

iPhone Applications Can Now Integrate Facebook Connect.
The Next Web — ... today announced the availability of Facebook Connect for the iPhone. The release will allow iPhone developers to easily connect you to your (Facebook) friends via their applications. ...

TweetDeck Launches Facebook Status Update Support - Now You Can Be Two Places at Once
Inside Facebook — ... The new integration is made possible by Facebook Connect, Facebook’s way of letting developers access the Facebook social graph and publish information back to the Facebook stream from third party websites or applications. The new TweetDeck is the latest in a spate of Facebook Connect launches in recent days - this weekend, several iPhone app developers launched Facebook Connect integration as part of the ...

Facebook Connect for iPhone Launched
D' Technology Weblog — ... Facebook Connect easily lets developers make their websites and desktop applications more social. If you develop apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can now start making those apps more social with the ...

Netflix and Facebook Link Movie Ratings
NewTeeVee — ... tonight is announcing integration with Facebook Connect, meaning users can link their accounts and relationships across the two services. Netflix members’ ratings for a movie will show up on their Facebook profiles, where friends can comment and click back to Netflix to add the movie to their own queue. ...

Sprout Adds Social Platform Support
ReadWriteWeb — Sprout, developer of a unique drag-and-drop widget creation service, announced today that its development platform now supports the Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect, and OpenSocial. According to the press release, this will "enable brands and agencies to focus their time on the creative campaign development and still reap the rewards that social networking applications offer.." Which means, if you are using Sprout for your ad campaigns already, you now instantly have access to three more social platforms to deploy on. If you ...

HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Facebook
Mashable! — ... If you have a blog, it’s also a smart idea to use Facebook Connect. By having Facebook Connect on your blog, you can bring your friends with you and promote your content through social interactions that start on your blog and end up on Facebook. ...

Digg launches a pervasive, software-free toolbar
Webware.com — ... which pioneered this concept has had the same thing for years, and more recently as part of its own software-free pervasive toolbar. Will Digg fans get on the company about this? Probably not, but it's worth noting that hopping to a random story has never been something you could do from Digg's own site, and as of now is only available on the DiggBar. Two things that appear to be missing from today's release--and have been long promised, is support for Facebook Connect log-ins, and an improved search tool. Digg was announced as a Facebook Connect ...

Hotelicopter is real, though simply a travel search engine
Webware.com — ... Included is the option to log in and link it up with your Facebook account using Facebook Connect, which for now is simply a way to bypass registering with the site, and promote that you're using it on your profile every time you book a trip. What would be far more interesting though, is if it pulled a ...

You Don’t Own Your Data on Social Networks
Stay N' Alive — ... Not FriendFeed, or even Twitter enable this capability, which is why if they don’t adapt in the future things will change. Facebook is attempting to address this with their Connect product, and that’s a step in the right direction. Facebook also ...

Should the Government Control Internet Standards?
ReadWriteWeb — ... has been in a dominant position for years in terms of both platform and mindshare, went on to say that Facebook Connect, the service that lets you take your online identity with you all over the Web, may be just what the industry needs. ...

Roll Your Own Twitter Clone
SitePoint — ... Pro, and it’s an interesting blend of social aggregator and microblogging service. Installing Motion is fairly straightforward—simply install Movable Type, create a new blog, and when the wizard asks for the type of blog you wish to create, use the Motion setting. Visitors can sign up to the service either directly through your Movable Type instance, or by using their account from a number of other authentication methods such as a Google Account, Facebook Connect, or an OpenID. Unlike WordPress, above, newly registered users can ...

How to Successfully Integrate Social Media Into Your Site
SitePoint — ... Popular tech news publisher TechCrunch saw registrations increase by 100%, while capturing additional demographic data on their users by integrating Facebook Connect. ...

Qik and Facebook Connect Make Sharing Mobile Video Easy
Inside Facebook — ... has integrated with Facebook to make sharing on-the-go videos as easy as sharing mobile photos. The marriage is possible through Facebook Connect, which enables Qik members to automatically upload videos from mobile devices to their Facebook pages. ...

Retailers Utilize Facebook Connect to Make Online Shopping More Social, Personal
Inside Facebook — ... , which helps shoppers at retail websites view what their Facebook friends have said about certain products. While it remains to be seen whether or not Fluid Social can truly engage (or motivate) customers to participate in discussions by tapping into their Facebook networks, it highlights the potential Facebook Connect offers in making e-commerce websites more social and personalized. ...

As Germany’s Largest Newspaper Adds Facebook Connect, Other Papers Should Follow
Inside Facebook — ... While online retailers, restaurant review sites, social networks, and technology-oriented media sites like TechCrunch and CNET have embraced Facebook Connect as a means to encourage registrations and generate page views, perhaps no business sector could benefit more than the struggling newspaper industry. ...

At Finovate, a bad economy means good start-ups
Webware.com — ... With all these tools it seems as if the ultimate goal is to make it so users don't have to go out of their way to sign up to use them. Yet it requires a far more intense commitment and trust than a simple e-mail address and captcha, which makes me wonder if 2009 will bring a Facebook Connect for finance. ...

Riding the Facebook Baby Boomer Wave, Geni Jumps Into the Facebook Genealogy Game
Inside Facebook — ... In addition to building applications, both Geni and FamilyBuilder have also utilized Facebook Connect, creating a nice continuity for their sites’ users who want to employ their Facebook identity to manage their experience across both sites. With their Connect implementations, users can publish their actions — such as editing a family tree or uploading a picture — into their Facebook News Feeds. ...

Digg (finally) gets Facebook Connect integration
Webware.com — ... has finally implemented Facebook Connect. In the next few hours Facebook users will be able to log into Digg with their Facebook credentials and use the site as if they had spent the time registering. It will also push their activity back to Facebook so their friends can see what they've been Digging, and let them find other Facebook users who are using Digg too. ...

Digg integration gives Facebook Connect a leg up in universal log-in battle
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... With Facebook Connect, developers who choose to implement it gain access to users' profile information and can tap into their friends lists to encourage interaction on and about their sites. Connect can also post onto users' Facebook walls when they make a comment on a blog that runs the software. It can be installed on any website or iPhone application. ...

Experimental Firefox Add-on Weaves OpenID Into the Browser
Webmonkey — ... using a similar, everything-in-the-background approach. Offering a single sign-in solution for the web is currently a hot topic. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace and countless other sites are all offering to host your identity for you. Many of these key players on the social web are also offering tools to allow third-party sites to let you log in using the identity you have hosted with whoever your provider is — Google through FriendConnect, Facebook through Facebook Connect and Twitter through its recently debuted OAuth-based system. But in the end, ...

Paid Subscriptions: The Next Great Trend In Online Advertising? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Facebook Connect, perhaps) $5 a month — a fee I’m grabbing out of the ether — with the blessed result of being able to visit thousands of high-quality web sites, absolutely ad-free? That could theoretically provide both an important revenue stream for publishers while improving the user experience at the same time. ...

Friendapalooza: Facebook Connect helping music fans navigate major music festivals
VentureBeat — ... you want your friends to share some actual music with you beforehand. Traditionally, you’d have to do a bunch of calling or emailing around to figure out who’s going where. But concert producer C3 Presents — the folks who put on events with more than 100 acts, like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits — have been busy taking advantage of social web services coming out over the last year, and to great effect. Especially, it says, through using Facebook Connect. The company integrated Connect with Lolla and ACL a few weeks ...

Large Retailer Target Launches Branded Charity Application on its Facebook Page
Inside Facebook — ... To date, the application has garnered more than 75,000 votes. Considering the efforts of retailers to gain Facebook traction remains in a nascent stage, this must be looked upon as a successful campaign. That said, Target shouldn’t stop with this application. It should seek to use Facebook Connect to allow customers to use their Facebook identity to interact with products and share their thoughts on those products with friends, as we saw ...

With Facebook, Has OpenID Moved Closer to Being the De Facto Login Standard? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... ), Yahoo and AOL have all taken cracks at it, with varying degrees of success. Both Facebook (Facebook Connect) and Google ( ...

OpenID’s Tipping Point
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... Last year’s launch and eventually success of Facebook Connect showed developers that it is possible to build a delegated identity workflow that isn’t as intimidating and counterproductive as the experience typically associated with delegated identity systems like OpenID. On May 14th, Google announced that a similar experience has now been successfully designed and implemented for OpenID in the Google Code blog post titled ...

Dropio taps Facebook Connect for privacy control
Webware.com — ... has just put out a useful new way to control who can access files by using Facebook Connect. Called "friend lock," the system uses your list of Facebook friends as a simple directory that you can pick and choose from to create a whitelist of approved contacts. ...

New Video Game Prototype Creating Compelling Custom Trailers with Facebook Connect
Inside Facebook — ... , a new game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 set to launch June 9th, has utilized Facebook Connect in one of the most innovative and clever ways since the technology became available. When you visit ...

New Video Game Prototype Creating Compelling Custom Trailers with Facebook Connect
Inside Facebook — ... , a new game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 set to launch June 9th, has utilized Facebook Connect in one of the most innovative and clever ways since the technology became available. When you visit ...

Facebook, MySpace still better than Twitter for connecting people to your site
VentureBeat — ... In terms of overall traffic, Facebook seems to still be killing it. Facebook Connect does, too, although one wonders how Compete is counting unique visitors. When a user signs in to another site using Connect, the site pings connect.facebook.com, and Compete tracks that domain. In terms of US users, aren’t these same unique visitors also visiting Facebook.com, the home site? ...

Zynga Wants Apple to Build Facebook Connect Into iPhone [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... wants Apple to make a similar move towards greater Facebook connectivity with the iPhone, but the game company has different motives, and very different integration goals as a result. Specifically, Zuora is looking for Apple to implement a platform-wide solution for a feature that it currently builds into each of its individual apps: Facebook Connect access. ...

Facebook v. Google v. the Techno-Aquarians
Technology Liberation Front — ... But I doubt there will ever be any clear “winner” in this race.  Instead, we’re likely to see fierce competition and ongoing one-upsmanship over the coming decade (and beyond) for users, for user data, and for they ad dollars they bring, among a variety of paradigms for what the Internet of the future should look like.  Facebook has already started implementing its paradigm with  Connect (launched Dec. 2008) and   ...

Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out
Wired Top Stories —

Facebook, Twitter, Online Identity Integration & the Future of Anonymity
Technology Liberation Front — ... yesterday touched on another issue near & dear to my heart (besides the importance of smarter advertising): the future of online anonymity. The article lays out Facebook’s “4-Step Plan for Online Domination,” which involves “colonizing” the web though Facebook’s Connect (launched Dec. 2008) and  ...

Facebook, Twitter, Online Identity Integration & the Future of Anonymity
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — ... yesterday touched on another issue near & dear to my heart (besides the importance of smarter advertising): the future of online anonymity. The article lays out Facebook's "4-Step Plan for Online Domination," which involves "colonizing" the web though Facebook's Connect (launched Dec. 2008) and ...

Help me learn: Is there something like OpenID out there, but for money?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — A few days ago, one of my favorite online services, Spotify, launched a new feature for premium users. I wanted to sign up to become a premium user, but my credit card does not work on their site. This got me thinking about decentralizing payment systems. Today there are several groups of people pushing federated identity. I’m sure you’ve heard of OpenID, Facebook Connect and OAuth. The promise is simple: use your existing credentials to log on to new services. Here is how it works in practice: I go to a site, ...

Facebook Connect: Ace in the Hole
901am — ... reports that Facebook Connect, the service that allows Facebook users to log into third-party sites using their Facebook credentials, is seeing rapid adoption. Just seven months after launch, over ten thousand sites have integrated the service — from mainstream hangouts like Hulu, to geek havens like Digg, to personal WordPress blogs ...

Why Facebook Is Changing Online Video, Television
Inside Facebook — ... Before the internet, the only way to make television social was by inviting friends over to watch your favorite show, the Superbowl, a movie, or other major events. But as the use of online video has grown at a staggering rate, websites are increasingly able to let people around the world interact with friends using social technologies like Facebook Connect. ...

32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... more connections. Use Find Friends for suggestions of other people you may know to expand your network even further. Look for mutual contacts on your contacts’ friends lists. Find experts in your field and invite them as a guest blogger on your blog or speaker at your event. Market your products by posting discounts and package deals. Share survey or research data to gain credibility. Use Facebook Connect to add social networking features to your web site. Suggest ...

What Will Facebook Connect Mean for Online Advertising?
Inside Facebook — ... As sites continue to utilize Facebook Connect to drive viral traffic and increase registration rates, many might wonder: How will Connect generate revenues for Facebook itself? ...

Product management on a shoestring
VentureBeat — ... Outsourced API ingestion. What it does: Make your life easier by allowing you to do one integration to get access to several different social APIs. What it costs: $1,000 annually for startups. Why we use it: Cheaper than doing it ourselves. Complementary to: Mashery. Competitive with: Rolling your own. Nits: We are just starting to work on this, so nothing yet. 9) Facebook Connect (for account creation) Users can use their Facebook ...

NBC Adds Facebook Connect Logins to Video Sites
Webmonkey — ... Facebook Connect is the social networking company’s technology for logging in to third party sites using one’s Facebook login and password. Once you log in to a site using Facebook Connect, any comments or media you share on that site will also appear in your Facebook stream. It’s a win for Facebook users, because it makes engaging with a new site easy (you don’t have to create yet another user profile just to leave a comment) and it helps you find your friends on the new site. The third-party sites get free links back to their content from within ...

Hey Businesses, You’re Using Facebook Wrong
Stay N' Alive — ... has the upper-hand here, it definitely has to open up a little more in order to be completely on par with Twitter.  However, there is a side of Facebook businesses aren’t yet fully utilizing and they need to start - it’s a wealth of information and user connections at their hands if they just embrace it.  The part of Facebook businesses are completely missing is Facebook Connect. ...

How Facebook Beat MySpace: From College Dorm to Platform
ReadWriteWeb — ... Says Director of Research Heather Dougherty, "For the week ending September 5, 2009, Facebook captured nearly 58% of visits in the social networking custom category, followed by MySpace with 31%." Dougherty offers 3 reasons for Facebook's success including clean design, mobile applications and Facebook Connect. ...

“Fish Where the Fish Are” No Longer Applies
Stay N' Alive — ... Last year Facebook introduced Facebook Connect to developers to enable developers to integrate the Facebook Platform right on their own websites. I’m not sure developers or businesses fully knew what was coming at the time, but it sounded good.  Mark Zuckerberg ...

This New Trend in Facebook Apps Looks Ugly
Stay N' Alive — ... If I were Hulu, I would be looking for ways to utilize Facebook Connect to bring Facebook to their own brand.  Look to integrate (see the “3 steps – that’s all!” part of ...

Website translation tool added to Facebook Connect
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... If you are a website developer and want to try the tool out, Facebook has issued a handy demo of how the app will work. Be warned, though: you will have to be handy with HTML to use the tool Translations uses XFML – Facebook's own mark up language, which is an extension of HTML. Essentially this means, that when you have created a translated version of your website, it will be accessible to users after they log into Facebook Connect. The Translations for Facebook Connect app is to be announced officially at this year's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) ...

Website translation added to Facebook Connect
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... If you are a website developer and want to try the tool out, Facebook has issued a handy demo of how the app will work. Be warned, though: you will have to be handy with HTML to use the tool Translations uses XFML – Facebook's own mark up language, which is an extension of HTML. Essentially this means, that when you have created a translated version of your website, it will be accessible to users after they log into Facebook Connect. The Translations for Facebook Connect app is to be announced officially at this year's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) ...

Facebook Releases New Tools to Make Getting Started with Connect Easier (Plus, New Stats)
Inside Facebook — ... Finally, Facebook has updated the documentation on the main Connect site in order to make Connect’s three value propositions (more traffic, better engagement, higher registration rates) clearer, and to explain the difference between “simple” and “advanced” Facebook Connect implementations. ...

Facebook Connect gets language translation tool
D' Technology Weblog — ... handy with HTML to use the tool. Translations uses XFML – Facebook's own mark up language, which’s an extension of HTML. Essentially this means, that when you’ve created a translated version of your website, it’ll be accessible to users after they log into Facebook Connect. The Translations for Facebook Connect app is to be announced officially at this year's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in London, noted. More info: Facebook Connect ...

Interview: Facebook: the big questions
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... CL: Since we made Facebook Connect readily available in December [2008] we have seen over 15,000 websites and applications. ...

FBFoundations Facebook Connect Plugin for Wordpress
Stay N' Alive — One of my biggest frustrations in adapting Facebook Connect into Wordpress blogging has been the fact that most plugins out there either have too much, or too little incorporated into them.  When you add more than one, you end up calling the Facebook Javascript Client libraries more than once, and often reinvent the wheel for what other people have done.  I mentioned this in a wish-list I posted earlier.  I want building blocks – I should be able to add a foundation, and add basic building blocks on top of that foundation to get what I ...

The Framework of the Building Block Web – An MVC Perspective
Stay N' Alive — ... embrace all the components of the Building Block Web, it should also embrace a view of some sort.  Remember a View is code that the user interacts with, usually via a browser, and in the Building Block Web participants must provide components (or “blocks”) that sit at the user level reducing the work a developer needs to do to integrate the blocks into their own environment.  Facebook does this very well with its own internal Applications developers can write, as well as Facebook Connect, enabling developers to integrate  the Facebook environment in ...

An Inside Look at 4 Developer Ecosystems
Mashable! — ... Tip for developing Facebook apps: Get to know Facebook Connect. It’s quickly become a very powerful platform for integrating Facebook data with your web app, as well as a new way to create viral distribution. You can learn more on the Facebook Developers website. ...

In Depth: What your web apps will be like in 2014
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... (which makes good use of Facebook Connect) to share data between sites. Yet, in the next five years, apps will become even more adept at sharing data, mostly thanks to ...

This Is Neat: ABC Adds Commentary Tracks, Plus Ability to Make Your Own
NewTeeVee — ... overlaid comments from stars and fans on top of a rerun on TV. Text comments crowding out the screen may not have been quite right for the living room, but it could be fantastic on the PC. Other similar projects include ClipSync, View2Gether, Vidrollr, tvChatter, Cliqset, MediaFriends and the many other implementations of Facebook (and now Twitter) alongside video and on TV screens. Today, implementations of Facebook Connect are leading the pack, but there’s a lot of work yet to be done to make ...