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Facebook Connects with other sites

Digging alongside poking and sheep throwing

By Rafe Needleman on 24 July 2008 08:48

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has officially rolled out Facebook Connect, a way for apps not on the Facebook Platform to leverage the Facebook social network.

Facebook Connect allows other websites and apps to have their users log in, or authenticate, to the Facebook system, and once logged in, their social network comes with them. Facebook data not only becomes available to the user on the external site but things the user does on the site can be reflected back to the Facebook profile and 'news feed'.

For example, users on news aggregator Digg will be able to connect their accounts to the Facebook profiles, and then when they 'digg' a new item, that information will get fed to their Facebook feed.

Other Facebook Connect partners include CBS.com, CitySearch, silicon.com parent company CNET, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and many others.

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  1. 1. Roy Corneloues

    Will Silicon be tying up with Facebook then?

    • 24 July 2008 10:31
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