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Facebook Wants to Change the Future of the Web with Open Graph

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been sending not-too-subtle signals for a long time now that the future of Facebook won’t be happening at the Facebook.com domain. The world’s largest-growing social network will take a great leap toward that eventuality this year, beginning in April.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, that’s when Zuckerberg plans to launch a new set of Facebook tools for Web developers – who want to make their websites off the Facebook.com domain work (and even look) more like Facebook pages on the Facebook.com domain.

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Google Friend Connect VS Facebook Connect - Round One Goes To.....

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Google Friend Connect: One. Facebook Connect: Zero.

At least, that's how it seems to me, after having watched the two butt heads over the last few months. There was a ton of hype surrounding each (particularly Facebook Connect), but now that the smoke has cleared a little bit we're starting to get a clearer picture of how these competing technologies are going to play out over the coming months and years.

So far, it looks to this writer like Google Friend Connect is serving Facebook Connect up a big heaping plate of humble pie - for a few good, simple reasons.

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See Sociable's Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin in Action

78 Points

Here's a little video courtesy of the folks over at Six Jumps, the folks responsible for the Sociable Facebook Connect Plugin for the Wordpress blogging platform. As we mentioned last week, this is one of the first plugins to take advantage of Facebook's new data availability feature, Facebook Connect.

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Plugins Bring Facebook Connect to Popular Blogging Platforms

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Since the recent launch of Facebook Connect, Facebook's new data availability feature that lets users link up their Facebook profiles with other websites around the internet, developers have been working overtime.

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Will Facebook Connect Socialize the Web?

108 Points

Facebook launched its long awaited Facebook Connect feature this month - to an initially underwhelmed audience. The feature, which allows users to bridge the gap between their Facebook identities and their identities on Facebook Connect Partner sites, went relatively unnoticed by the majority of Facebook users.