socialtimes.com - 12/4/2008
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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 integrating into the service but bloggers are ...
facebook.com - 12/5/2008
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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 ...
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Facebook Security
blog.facebook.com - 12/4/2008
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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 ...
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Facebook Across the Web
valleywag.com - 12/5/2008
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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 ...
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Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
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Too Close for Guns, Google Switches to Missles
All Facebook —
... to bloggers to install their service.
The result is now a large number of blogs with Friend Connect directly integrated with their service. Surprisingly absent from all those sites? Facebook. Take a look at Twitter and you’ll see a surge in chatter about Friend Connect over the past few hours. I’ve had a few friends mention their new integration with Friend Connect. Facebook appears to still be rolling out the service on a one-at-a-time basis.
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Too Close for Missles, Google Switches to Guns
All Facebook —
... to bloggers to install their service.
The result is now a large number of blogs with Friend Connect directly integrated with their service. Surprisingly absent from all those sites? Facebook. Take a look at Twitter and you’ll see a surge in chatter about Friend Connect over the past few hours. I’ve had a few friends mention their new integration with Friend Connect. Facebook appears to still be rolling out the service on a one-at-a-time basis.
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Google Friend Connect tries to sneak up on Facebook Connect (again)
VentureBeat —
... Google now appears to be busy trying to steal a little thunder. It offers a competing initiative, called Friend Connect. Web publishers have been receiving invites to test the service out on their own sites for the past day or so, according to ...
Data Portability Google and Facebook Style: Which One Will Webmasters Choose?
Profy —
... the social network’s users to contact webmasters of their favorite websites and ask them to install the code required for Facebook Connect to work so that the visitors won’t have to register and build new profiles every time they want to use a new site. And Google has also been busy encouraging web publishers to try Google Friend Connect out on their sites by contacting bloggers via email and inviting them to use the service by Google. ...
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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 ...
Facebook to Google: my Connect is bigger than yours
venturebeat.com 12/4/2008 — Facebook and Google have both opened services to the public today that intend to let you easily access any web site using versions of your pre-existing online identity. They both intend to help you find friends on other web sites to interact with, ...
Facebook Connect Now Generally Available As Well
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 —
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 ...
The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook)
techcrunch.com 12/29/2008 — If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually ...
Facebook Is Gaining Ground On Google In Time Spent On The Internet
techcrunch.com 12/18/2008 — Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google.
A couple days ago, Facebook released some new statistics on user growth and engagement on the site. It now has more ...
Facebook Connect: Coming Soon to a Site Near You?
readwriteweb.com 11/5/2008 — Facebook Connect - the service that allows developers to access Facebook data from outside of the Facebook chrome - has been met with both cautious optimism and healthy skepticism . And with good reason. The service holds the potential to ...
Is the great Facebook stock sale over? [Jackpot]
valleywag.com 12/5/2008 — Through the golden heart of every world-changing startup pulses an avaricious get-rich-quick scheme. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the billionaire-boy cofounders of Google, established this doing-well-by-doing-good myth. But Mark Zuckerberg hasn't been ...
Facebook Connect
facebook.com 12/4/2008 — You do all sorts of interesting things on the internet. Many of these interesting things happen within Facebook, which is why we created News Feed—to let your friends know what you're up to on the site. But what about interesting things that you do ...
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