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Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
25hoursaday.com - 12/9/2008
Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
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A few days ago, the top news story on Techmeme was the fact that Google launched Google Friend Connect and Facebook announced the final version of Facebook Connect within minutes of each other. Reading up on both announcements it seems interesting to note how most of the coverage is about who ...
blog.facebook.com - 12/6/2008
Video Just Got Better
— blog.facebook.com — Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with... approximately 100,000 new videos added each day. Starting today, you'll be able to upload higher quality videos to Facebook and also embed your Facebook ... (more) Video Just Got Better

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pcworld.com - 12/5/2008
Facebook, Google Launch Data Portability Programs to All
— pcworld.com — Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday. Google... Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are generally designed to extend social-networking capabilities broadly across the ... (more) Facebook, Google Launch Data Portability Programs to All

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Facebook Connect Is Now Generally Available. Let the Identity Wars Begin
blog.wired.com - 12/10/2008
Facebook Connect Is Now Generally Available. Let the Identity Wars Begin
— blog.wired.com — 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 ... (more) Facebook Connect Is Now Generally Available. Let the ...

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SmoothSpan Blog:  The Race for Internet Single Sign On

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The Race for Internet Single Sign On
SmoothSpan Blog — ... Dave Weiner, as channelled by Dare Obasanjo, says these standards are too complex and that points the way to a new generation.  I disagree.  It’s been easy to implement OpenID and Salesforce credentials at Helpstream, and we’re going to do Facebook next.  This is just wishful thinking from Weiner and Obasanjo who abhor the idea that SSO might be locked up by one of these big players.  The lockup isn’t going to happen precisely because it is pretty easy to support more than one.  Dare also points out some good examples where you may not want a single ID ...

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