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Facebook Connect is ready to enroll new websites. Unveiled
this summer, during the second annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook
Connect service enables the members of Facebook to make use of their profiles
on other websites as well.
The way the service will work goes like this: the user’s
Facebook profile and log-in information will serve as a web
"passport," thus granting the user access to any of the partner
websites.
Facebook Connect also gives members the opportunity to
broadcast their actions on those sites to their friends on Facebook.
According to an article from The New York Times, during the
next few weeks, Facebook Connect will be available on a a number of prominent
Web site such as Discovery Channel, The
San Francisco Chronicle, the social news site Digg, the genealogy network Geni
and the online video hub Hulu.
The idea is similar to that put into practice by Microsoft,
when it tried to take its Hotmail service to the next level. However,
Microsoft’s password plan came to an abrupt end because of serious user
security and privacy issues brough about by third-party sites.
Also, Facebook itself tried something similar with its advertising
program Beacon last year in December. The Beacon advertising program stirred a heavy
debate over privacy issues after Facebook members were automatically opted-in
to the program.
However, Facebook Connect was already tested on some sites
such as : CBS, Citysearch, CollegeHumor, Kongregate, Loopt, Plaxo, Radar, Red
Bull, Disney-ABC TV, Evite, Flock, Hulu, Seesmic, Six Apart, Socialthing,
StumbleUpon, Twitter, Uber, Vimeo and Xobn.
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