Posts Tagged ‘Connect’:
03 Aug 08
Connecting to Facebook
Without a doubt, the highlight of this year’s famous developer conference f8 was the introduction of Facebook Connect, an API that allows third party websites to connect user accounts to Facebook and add social content to their site. One of the first well known partners to integrate Facebook Connect is Digg, a social community where users may rate news articles. In the German speaking environment Amiando, a platform where users may create events and outsource ticketing procedures. In both cases Facebook’s most important USP, the so called “social graph”, is exported to third party websites, allowing them to add rich user content to their sites. Facebook Connect goes even as far as allowing those third party websites to modify content within Facebook, such as postings at the marketplace. The obvious question then is, why should we bother as a third party website to play around with our user’s Facebook account?