Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Connect’

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As more and more social TV apps pop up, it has become apparent that the future of TV is social. Hulu is jumping on the social bandwagon with a big announcement this morning—they are making the Hulu experience even more social with Facebook integration.

Desperados Tequila-Flavored Beer may have just won the award for the best YouTube takeover in history with ‘The Desperados Experience’, a new campaign that hit the video site earlier this month, which incorporates Facebook connect to make you and your friends part of the action.

YouTube viewing parties are now possible thanks to the launch of YouTube Social, an effort by SocialVision to combine the features of Facebook’s Social Graph with chatting via IM, TechCrunch reported.

Users who type “social” immediately following “youtube” in the URL for any YouTube video will automatically be redirected to the platform, where they can invite friends by sending them the URL or using Facebook Connect, with the latter resulting in automatic chat messages generated via Facebook, according to TechCrunch.

SocialVision may expand YouTube Social to MySpace and instant messaging, TechCrunch reported.

I can still remember a time when people would tell me that OpenID and Google would definitively be the centralized ID of the web.  Other people would say there was no use to even having a sort of central identification.  And nearly every person would laugh if I insinuated that Facebook had the best shot [...]

ITV, the largest commercial television broadcaster in the UK, will be broadcasting tomorrow’s first election debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg live online, and will be using social networking tools to reach out to the public. The event will begin streaming live on ITV’s website at 8:30 GMT, and during and after [...]

Veechi Corp has released a powerful resume tool, Job Genius, to help college students craft a resume based on edits and suggestions from selected members in their Facebook network. With Job Genius, students can make a resume that uses pertinent information pulled from their Facebook profile, and fill in the rest using the clear template [...]

If you’ve ever spent a night at a local pub, you’ve probably heard of Golden Tee Golf, the arcade cabinet first released in 1989 and one of the first golf arcade games in existence. Following up on their 2000 launch of Golden Tee Fore, where players could participate in tournaments from around the United States, [...]

According to Techcrunch, Twitter is working on a new service which competes with Facebook Connect, however details about this supposed product are scarce. As any developer knows, Twitter was already an effective competitor to Facebook, supporting OAuth authentication and providing a robust API to third-party developers. However a new package is in the works and [...]

In an interview with Xconomy, Mussie Shore, one of the developers behind Google Friend Connect, says that “8 million communities have formed with Friend Connect”. What do those communities consist of? The same widget which shows up in the sidebar of this site. The number is massive considering that Facebook Connect is now on “tens of thousands” of websites. I’ve written about the service extensively since it first launched and as of now, it’s being hailed as a great success.
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