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Facebook Connect: Coming Soon to a Site Near You?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 05, 2008

Summary

Facebook Connect - the service that allows developers to access Facebook data from outside of the Facebook chrome - has been met with both cautious optimism and healthy skepticism. And with good reason. The service holds the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with social sites the Web over. At the same time, it gives Facebook access to a great deal of information about how users interact with other social sites.

To date, the sites allowed to use Facebook Connect have been few and far between. But that may soon change, given today's announcement that Facebook is accepting more developer submissions.

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Like its chief competitor Google Friend Connect and more recent entrant Yahoo! Open Strategy, Facebook Connect offers developers access to a number of baked-in features that can both save development time and enhance the Facebook experience for users by leveraging data that already exists within Facebook.