Comments on: Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win

By: My Web Without Facebook Connect: Tech News and Analysis «

My Web Without Facebook Connect: Tech News and Analysis « — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:04:44 +0000

[...] web developers to allow web surfers to sign in to their services using their Facebook identities. Here is what I wrote then: In addition to offering a simple authentication method, FC allows granular social interactions to [...]

By: Twitter’s One Real Problem. No Not Developers!

Twitter’s One Real Problem. No Not Developers! — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:04:58 +0000

[...] Using the open graph API, Facebook wants to turn any plain website say, CNN, into a Facebook page, giving it the ability to collect fans, publish stories to their Facebook stream, and appear in the social networking site’s search results. (Read: Why Facebook Connect Matters and Why it Will Win.) [...]

By: Facebook Connect is a game-changer. But not in the way you think. « Peanut Lab market research

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:38:45 +0000

[...] post is a reply to Om Malik’s review of Facebook Connect, the new Facebook data-sharing system that allows 3rd-party websites to share [...]

By: Everything you need to know about Facebook Connect

Everything you need to know about Facebook Connect — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:46:03 +0000

[...] Facebook Connect on Giga Om [...]

By: The Scorecard: Winners & Losers of Yahoo, Facebook Connect Deal – GigaOM

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:02:47 +0000

[...] comparison, Google which wants to organize world’s information. In my essay from July 2008, Why Facebook Connect matters and why it will win, I wrote: Why? Because this is their one chance of building a monetization engine. The company [...]

By: Facebook Makes It Easier for Devs to Tap Into Connect Magic – GigaOM

Facebook Makes It Easier for Devs to Tap Into Connect Magic – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:04:49 +0000

[...] to Tap Into Connect Magic By Jennifer Martinez September 30, 2009 No Comments 0 0 0 36 Facebook Connect has so far been implemented on some 15,000 web sites, devices and applications, a number [...]

By: Facebook Connect is Crushing Rivals, MySpace

Facebook Connect is Crushing Rivals, MySpace — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:27:36 +0000

[...] Om Malik | Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | 2:24 PM PT | 0 comments Almost a year ago I predicted that Facebook Connect – essentially a single web identity that allows users to sign-in to sites that support [...]

By: 4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit — So Far

4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit — So Far — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:16 +0000

[...] talk, Justin Smith, founder and editor of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games, pointed out that Facebook Connect was making social games increasingly playable outside of Facebook — on the web, via the [...]

By: Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? | Design Website

Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? | Design Website — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:18:44 +0000

[...] like Facebook has been pushing developers to use Facebook Connect for authentication, Twitter can help game (and app) developers build their own gaming destinations by leveraging [...]

By: Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? « Tech Eruption

Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? « Tech Eruption — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:38:50 +0000

[...] like Facebook has been pushing developers to use Facebook Connect for authentication, Twitter can help game (and app) developers build their own gaming destinations by leveraging [...]

By: facebook knows what you (and marketers) like « b. todd randolph | inapropos

Sat, 30 May 2009 02:06:40 +0000

[...] mainstream media and bloggers alike greeted the news with breathless excitement. “let me tell you, [facebook connect] has the potential to simplify and enrich social networking in a revolutionary way,” raved pc world. “If facebook can work with its partners to build interesting use-case scenarios that go beyond simple sign-on, it is quite feasible that facebook can out-execute google, myspace and everyone else with its id ambitions,” gushed web savant om malick. [...]

By: alwilliams

alwilliams — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:39:13 +0000

Om, of course relevance of Facebook Ads increases response. That comment was a little mis placed.

Seems to me that Facebook is trying to embed itself into content. This is a wise move given that Facebook is becoming the new email to people. Although email advertising is big business (arguably not relative to other industries though), being able to monetise content offers far greater scale and is more where the company’s vision seems to be heading.

By: Can Internet Free Agents Rescue MySpace?

Can Internet Free Agents Rescue MySpace? — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:15:51 +0000

[...] is using its 200 million-plus user base to become a dominant web ID player, further marginalizing MySpace as a platform, which hasn’t managed to successfully capture [...]

By: With MySpace Changes, a Social Networking Era Ends

With MySpace Changes, a Social Networking Era Ends — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:29:33 +0000

[...] part of the web-fabric. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recognized that and since then has been pushing hard on Facebook Connect, which is a simple authentication method that also allows granular social interactions to be [...]

By: Insight 2009: Part 2 - Job Market and Technology - The Krimson King

Insight 2009: Part 2 - Job Market and Technology - The Krimson King — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:15:03 +0000

[...] choose from, it is necessary that they begin to work together. Facebook has taken lead with their Facebook Connect. This website plugin allows users to become a member of a website without the hassle of creating a [...]

By: The Battle For The Single Web Identity

The Battle For The Single Web Identity — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:37:55 +0000

[...] it for Facebook and Google? For Facebook this is the second iteration of their Beacon system as Gig Om quite rightly points out. The first iteration was one of Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest faux [...]