Comments on: Facebook Launches Connect, Finally

By: Video Sites Lead Facebook Connect Implementation « NewTeeVee

Video Sites Lead Facebook Connect Implementation « NewTeeVee — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:47:49 +0000

[...] Facebook’s authentication system for external sites, Facebook Connect, has only been out for a few weeks, but so far, video sites are contributing the greatest numbers of active users, [...]

By: xandrax

xandrax — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:22:28 +0000

A user is a user, but would you rather have 10 users or 100 users? If a site can get each of its 10 members to broadcast their activities to their 200 facebook friends, and a small number of those friends learn about and engage with that site because of that exposure, and get their friends to do the same, etc etc. I think it’s a pretty good win-win for both the non-FB site and facebook. I’m just trying it out now on Joost, we’ll see how sticky it turns out to be.

By: Joost Connects With Facebook « NewTeeVee

Joost Connects With Facebook « NewTeeVee — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:26:34 +0000

[...] Connect went live last week, and has a host of partners that have agreed to use it, including video sites Hulu and Howcast. [...]

By: Gender and Culture « Disparate

Gender and Culture « Disparate — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:28:32 +0000

[...] tap viewers’ online social network. FC is a relatively new feature (the general release was last week) and few sites have been putting it to the test. In this campaign’s case, a woman can use her [...]

By: Jay & Silent Rob » Blog Archive » techFive - Top Five Tech Stories from the Week of 12.05.08

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:49:13 +0000

[...] Facebook Connect Launches – There has been a lot of work done with Identity, and up until now, it seemed like OpenID was slowly becoming the leading candidate, but as Om Malik points out in the article, the number and quality of launch partner sites is one reason why Facebook is going to get more traction compared to its rivals. Another article on the topic is Why Facebook Connect Matter & Why It Will Win. [...]

By: xây dựng

xây dựng — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:01:45 +0000

Facebook launches Facebook connect service. What about OpenID ?

By: james1

james1 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:20:59 +0000

Well said Ted. You are exactly right. Any serious site looking for user engagement is silly to use Facebook connect Why would anyone forfeit a user for more "engagement" whatever that marketing?PR jumble means. Bloggers spent all of 2007/2008 talking up user acquisition and now sites are going to just give up on user acquisition so they could get more "engagement"; screw that a user is a user, period!

Businesses, blogs, and everyone else should NEVER EVER build a user focused business on the back of Facebook...it is just poor business! Let Facebook figure out on their own how to keep users in their clutches and make money, don't do it for them. It is a true bait and switch going on here

By: Niraj

Niraj — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:00:28 +0000

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By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:26:10 +0000

My gut is that the average site that implements this will not see a ton of sustained engaged traffic simply because users don't have to create an account to login. If someone wants to use a site in a meaningful basis creating an account is a very small hurdle.

I could see some services get a big boost that provide services that FB doesn't, especially in the coming year when I suspect scrappy geniuses will figure out how to make FB users lives better.

Just as in 2002/2003 the digital landscape in the next year is going to be littered with tools that the big operations don't have time to tinker with that the crafty-class will make lemonade with.