Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect

Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this, coming immediately after MySpace, is somewhat suspicious.

It is essentially a new version of their API for third party websites, which was first launched in August 2006.

It will allow users to "connect" their ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 10, 2008 - 12:27 PM PDT
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by Brittany Maling - Oct. 1, 2008

This is decent journalism. It is straight-forward and gives the reader a good idea of the topic, but it really doesn't do anything special. It would have been interesting to hear about the implications of Facebook Connect and similar applications. Will this effect online marketing? Will all social networks follow suit?

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