Facebook Connect
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Social apps showing developers the money
News As platform providers rush to provide interoperability to attract developers, apps riding on platforms of Web giants such as Facebook enjoy highest demand.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Web 2.0, Single Sign-on, Google OpenSocial, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Developer, Web Application, Facebook Connect, API
Facebook wants you to do it live
News Site adds new bells and whistles such as privacy controls, embeddable streaming status and update widgets for developers and site owners.
Tags: Networking, Twitter, CNN, Video, photograph, API, Facebook, Web Site, Web, Networking
Adobe partnership makes Facebook's platform Flash-ier
News The two companies ink a formal deal to create a new library for Flash developers working with Facebook--not bringing too much that's new, but making it easier.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, MySpace, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Developer, API, San Francisco, Facebook, News.com
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Translations for Facebook Connect allows Web developers to tap technology that has been used to translate the social network itself into 65 languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Site, Web Site, single sign-on, authentication, Google OpenSocial, Lee, Web 2.0, board, Facebook
Hitwise: Facebook's 'Connect' pushed it past MySpace
News The traffic firm noticed a clear uptick in U.S. Facebook growth after the site launched Facebook Connect in full, and that's when it passed MySpace in traffic.
Tags: Web 2.0, MySpace, CNN, social networking, Facebook, marketing, Hitwise, Web Site, Web, Web 2.0
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News Gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Gadget, Google Inc., Language, automated translation, authentication system, Web Browser, Tool, product manager
OpenID comes to Facebook, at last
News The universal log-in standard hadn't come to Facebook sooner because of security and user experience concerns, a post on the social network's blog explains.
Tags: Web 2.0, Open source, Security, Digital Identity, Facebook Connect, Facebook, network, workplace, blog, Google Gmail
Facebook Connect branches out
News Aiming to make its universal-log-in product more ubiquitous, company announces a three-step integration wizard and a translation tool to automatically convert a site to a Facebook user's native language.
Tags: Web 2.0, entrepreneur, network, U.S., Hitwise, social Web, crowdsourcing, Connect Wizard, Social Networking, MySpace
Facebook and MySpace 'in talks'? Of course
News Good move for both companies as MySpace tries to move away from its image as a social network that lost to Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, MySpace, CEO, U.K., network, Web 2.0, Video, News Corp.
Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
News It's unclear how many members still can't access their accounts after Facebook acknowledged a database issue, but one thing's for sure: the ones locked out are steaming mad.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Web 2.0, Robert Scoble, screen name, Plaxo Inc., Cable, e-mail, IM, customer service
Facebook hires an open source advocate
News Prominent open standards advocate David Recordon will join Facebook as senior open programs manager.
Tags: Web 2.0, LiveJournal, Facebook, job, founder, blog, open standard, Web 2.0, board
Facebook Beacon has poked its last
News As part of the terms of a class action settlement against the ill-fated advertising experiment, Facebook will finally shut it down--and create a US$9.5 million "settlement fund" to create an independent online privacy foundation.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security, Blockbuster Inc., API, social networking, user control, Facebook, Web, Web 2.0
Facebook Connect: Your 8,000 hidden friends
News Do Facebook Connect users understand how extensively their profiles and activities are used by third parties?
Tags: Privacy, MySpace, Site, Google Inc., User Data, Advertisement, social networking, movie, Facebook, network
Facebook steps into OpenID Foundation
News We may not see OpenID in Facebook Connect anytime soon, but move is a big step for firm that many open-standards advocates once wrote off for its walled-garden nature.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Open source, PayPal, Google OpenSocial, Google Inc., VeriSign Inc., social networking, VP, Facebook
Facebook debuts 'fan box' tool
News Aimed at brands, celebrities, nonprofits, and marketers, the new widget lets site visitors add themselves as Facebook "fans".
Tags: Security applications/tools, Business broadband, MySpace, CNN, Tool, MTV, Coca-Cola Co., Facebook, brand, Web Site
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