During an interview at Le Web, the internet conference in Paris, Facebook’s Developer Network Director, Ethan Beard, told the group more than 250 million people are using Facebook Connect every month.
The Facebook Connect icon has shown up on MySpace today, but appearances can be deceiving. It doesn’t work yet.
Unless you work for the company, your invitation to try the messaging beta will include an email adddress ending in @facebook.com.
Just days before an expected announcement of Office-like functionality on Facebook, the proprietor of Improffice leaks that he’s programmed a way to migrate contacts from Google to the social network
PostRank has unveiled an analytics application promising to automate publishing of RSS content and analyze comments and likes of posts on Facebook.
Events and ticketing site Eventbrite has implemented Facebook Connect to add a social discovery layer to its site.
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Technology that brings together the real world and the virtual world of Facebook seems to be becoming the next big thing. Last week Facebook launched its location check-in service Places. Yesterday we wrote about a Coca-Cola festival in Israel where teenagers could ‘like’ attractions on Facebook by waving RFID bracelets. And today, we bring you news of real-world ‘liking’ via a QR code and a mobile phone.
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For the teenagers attending the Coca-Cola Village Amusement Park in Israel, the event was probably just a bit of fun. But in the world of social networking and online marketing, the world’s first real-life RFID event tied to Facebook was an event of greater significance.
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Amazon is using Facebook Connect to offer its users social recommendations for online shopping.
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Discovery Channel has launched a new campaign to promote the upcoming season of “The Colony” which will recreate what it would be like to live during a global pandemic. To promote the show, the company has created a promotion which utilizes Facebook Connect to create a custom news feed which mimics what your Facebook newsfeed would look like during a global pandemic. The campaign appears to be more educational than entertaining, but definitely clever.
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