Facebook Connects You with Facebook Connect
Facebook social network is inviting any Website to implement Facebook
Connect, a service designed to make it easy for its users – claimed to
be over 130 million – to combine their Facebook experience with
participating Website, desktop application, or mobile device.
Facebook Connect is now available through a self-service application on
Facebook Platform, at: http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php.
"At
Facebook, we're focused on giving people more powerful ways to share and
connect. We opened Facebook Platform in 2007 to enable hundreds of
thousands of developers to create meaningful social experiences for
users on Facebook.com," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO, Facebook.
"With the launch of Facebook Connect, we're extending that power to
millions of entrepreneurs and developers, transforming the Web into a
more social place where Facebook's users can engage in trusted social
experiences with their friends."
For
users of Facebook Connect, main features of the service include:
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Authentication -- easily login to participating sites using their
Facebook account
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Identity -- leverage their identity across the Web in a trusted
environment; no longer have to recreate a new profile on every Website
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Friend Linking -- take their friends with them and enable trusted
social context anywhere on the Web
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Dynamic Privacy -- maintain complete control over privacy as they
chose which sites to connect with, as well as which social actions on
those sites are shared with friends back on Facebook through their
News Feed
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Social Distribution -- share actions on participating sites with
their friends on Facebook through News Feed
Key
benefits, according to Facebook, for participating Websites include:
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One-click login -- users login with their Facebook identity and
allow the Website to access their Facebook profile information
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Increased engagement -- leverage users' personal interests to show
more relevant information and surface personalized content from
friends such as reviews or comments
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New forms of distribution -- users share content and actions taken
on a third party site with friends back on Facebook, invites and other
social communication channels on Facebook
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Platform -- use the same APIs that have allowed more than 670,000
developers to build more than 52,000 engaging applications for
Facebook users, says Facebook
