Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
Search
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Applications
    • Applications
    • Development
    • IT Management

    Facebook Introduces Connect, No Payment System

    By
    Clint Boulton
    -
    July 23, 2008
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin

      SAN FRANCISCO-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook Connect, his company’s first take on data portability.

      The project allows users to take their identity and friends with them to any third-party Web site, desktop application or device, while protecting the privacy of their contacts.
      This effort has the potential to be fantastic for programmers as well as consumers. With more than 90 million users, Facebook will eclipse MySpace in total users sometime this year.
      These users are hungry to move their data to other Web sites in a sort of decentralization of the primary social network, an idea that Zuckerberg proved he understands very well during his presentation. Facebook Connect will let users share actions on partner sites with their friends back on Facebook through feeds.

      Imagine taking your Facebook profile data and securely moving it to a new social network so you don’t have to enter in that data again, a repetition that is annoying even to those who only join a few social sites. That’s what Connect promises.
      Facebook has 24 Web sites and applications working with Connect.

      Securely Moving Data

      These include Digg, SixApart and Citysearch, whose spokespeople for those efforts presented their integrations with Connect today. In those implementations, users can sign in to Digg, SixApart or Citysearch with their Facebook accounts and become part of those communities.
      Importantly, the same privacy settings users have set up on Facebook will follow users wherever they log in throughout the Web.

      I appreciated the preview, but neither I nor anyone else in the general availability category will be able to use Facebook Connect until sometime this fall.

      Speaking of which, here is Google OpenSocial guru David Glazer’s take on Facebook Connect, a rival to Google’s own Friend Connect social service, on eWEEK soon.
      The event lacked the revolutionary cachet of the launch of Facebook Platform at the inaugural F8 last year, but it also included a variety of other novelties, including a brand-new Facebook Platform Web site with better navigation and cleaner access to the blog, wiki and forums.

      Facebook also opened up Platform’ Translation Application to any developer using Facebook Platform, so that users can make their app available in any of the 20 languages that are currently available on Facebook.
      New programs that encourage programmers to build apps that are useful and not spammy include Facebook Great Apps program, which rewards apps that deliver value to users, and Applications Verification.
      For Great Apps, if users like your app and it meets Facebook’s guidelines, Facebook will fully support it, Ling said. Facebook will open the Great Apps selection process to developers in September.
      To help further weed out those spammy apps, Facebook’s Application Verification program offers extra assurances to help users identify applications they can trust. Like Great Apps, verified applications will benefit from added visibility on Facebook. This will also be open to developers in September.
      Perhaps the real fun for developers is going on as I write, where some of Facebook’s 400,000 programmers are participating in the F8 Hack-a-thon. The rub? Programmers have 8 hours to write the best Facebook app they can.
      The event may also be remembered for what the company didn’t unveil: the oft-speculated-on Facebook payment processing platform.
      During a question-and-answer session with reporters, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington asked about the status of the payment platform, which would allow third-party programmers to charge users for the apps they build on Facebook Platform.
      “I wish I knew,” responded Zuckerberg, disappointing the couple dozen reporters in the room.

      Avatar
      Clint Boulton

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      eWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      Zeus Kerravala - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      Wayne Rash - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Information

      © 2021 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×