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A creepy yet fun new site is making the rounds and is getting a lot of attention, on Hacker News in particular. TakeThisLollipop feels more like a movie than anything else.It starts in a dark, damp room with a strange and sweaty man at a very ancient computer. And he's very happy about something. He's very ... |
18 October 2011
13:51 GMT |
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An error in Hulu's integration with Facebook Connect allowed tens of users to access other people's accounts and view sensitive information about them.On July 1, Hulu began giving users the option to link their accounts with Facebook. To encourage this, the company offered adopters an one-month free Hulu Pl... |
2 July 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Facebook is apparently close to launching a revamped version of its commenting plug-in for third-party sites. The new plugin version has been in the works for at least a few months. The main advantages of the new Facebook Social Commenting plugin is the use of real identities, since it's linked to users' pr... |
1 February 2011
05:09 GMT |
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MySpace made an inevitable announcement, it is now integrating several Facebook features and enabling users to either login with their Facebook credentials or link their two accounts. With what MySpace calls Mashup with Facebook users will then get linked to the stuff they already like based on their Facebook interes... |
19 November 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Facebook wants to own the web. Specifically, Facebook wants to own your web. In fact, Facebook wants to become the web, it wants to be in every page on every site. It wants to be your news source, it wants to recommend movies or music or even people you might like, it wants to be your shopping platform, it wants to b... |
22 April 2010
10:41 GMT |
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The first day of the Twitter Chirp developer conference wasn’t just about boasting of the service’s impressive stats, there were a couple of launches as well. One feature that should have a great impact on how you interact with Twitter is the @anywhere platform. Announced last month, the platform is now a... |
15 April 2010
09:35 GMT |
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The integration of social features, courtesy of Facebook, on Yahoo properties is moving forward with the launch of a big, new feature. Users will now be able to update their status on Facebok from inside Yahoo Mail. The feature will be added to the existing Yahoo status update tool and will only be available in "sele... |
30 March 2010
06:46 GMT |
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There are two big names when it comes to login platforms these days, Google and Facebook, with Twitter sometimes thrown in. But hype doesn't always translate into usage, as data from comment-platform provider Echo would suggest. It found that, when given the choice, most people preferred Yahoo Login over Faceboo... |
30 March 2010
03:08 GMT |
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There are very few companies as determined as Google to take over the web and only one in a position to do so, Facebook. The social-networking giant is getting ready to unveil more features, which would allow it to 'infiltrate' even more sites around the web than it has so far. One feature is a 'like&#... |
29 March 2010
10:17 GMT |
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YouTube is working on a major update to the site both visually and under the hood. The team provided us with an update of the progress on the new homepage a couple of days ago and, now, YouTube is showcasing some of the features that have been enabled on the site recently but that aren't directly related to the ... |
29 March 2010
07:07 GMT |
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Digg is planning to launch a major revamp of the site and now it's shedding more details on the login part. The site says a great focus was on supporting outside services as identity providers to make it easier for users to register for Digg. The new Digg will support five providers, though practically a lot mor... |
18 March 2010
12:36 GMT |
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Twitter has always been very open with its service and has allowed third-party developers to integrate it tightly with their apps or services. The microblogging platform is now looking to expand that by introducing the @anywhere platform, a tool to enable outside publishers to implement Twitter features on their site... |
16 March 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Aol has been working on Lifestream for quite a while now. The social web aggregation service has been integrating it with its various other products. It started out in AIM, one of the two IM services Aol runs, and, recently, it made its way into AOL Mail. Now, though, it’s shedding its shackles and becoming a s... |
12 March 2010
07:15 GMT |
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The Yahoo - Facebook integration that was announced last December is beginning to take shape, with Yahoo announcing that users will now be able to import their Facebook friends into Yahoo Contacts. The move is significant not only for Yahoo, as it signals its increasing reliance on third-parties for social services, ... |
8 March 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Facebook is moving to phase two of the controversial new privacy settings roll out by enabling for applications the same set of sharing options users get on the site. This means that you'll be able to customize what you share with Facebook apps but also sites using Facebook Connect by selecting who to share it w... |
18 February 2010
08:48 GMT |
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To say Facebook is growing isn't really news and it's even somewhat of an understatement. The social network has been adding users like there's no tomorrow and has now reached the 400-million-user mark. However, in certain aspects, Facebook has been growing even faster than it's been adding new us... |
9 February 2010
11:37 GMT |
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As early as one year ago, MySpace and Facebook were mortal enemies in the social networking war and fighting for the title of the largest social network in the US. At that time, MySpace still had a significant advantage in terms of users, but many knew that the writing was on the wall for the News Corp.-owned social... |
15 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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The Internet identity landscape is about to get a lot more interesting if the latest rumor that Twitter is launching its version of Facebook Connect materializes. The war is being fought right now largely between Facebook and Google and the social network has a clear lead in mind-share snatching up some big-name web... |
15 January 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Identity is becoming a crucial component online and there is a definite need for a convergence of all the different identities users have set up over the years on various websites and services. Increasingly, a number of identity providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, are becoming the de facto standard providers. At t... |
5 January 2010
07:13 GMT |
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Not the likeliest of partners, but common interest sometimes wins over other, more 'ideological' principles, YouTube and Facebook are getting a bit cozier with each other with the launch of a new feature that enables users to see what their friends share on the social network while on YouTube. It's th... |
19 December 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Forget the search wars, forget real-time, forget Twitter, there is only one real battle for the web right now and it’s between Facebook and Google. What's more interesting is that Facebook seems to be winning. This battle, to be the web's identity provider, pits Facebook Connect against Google Friend... |
10 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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It shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point, but there are now rumors that MySpace will be rolling out Facebook Connect Integration sometime in the first part of 2010. Yes, the arch-enemies of just a couple of years ago are now making “friend requests.” But 2009 is not 2007, Facebook has clearl... |
5 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Yahoo just announced that it's getting a lot more friendly with Facebook with a new level of integration across both sites. So, what better time for Google to announce an integration deal with Twitter than now? Google Friend Connect has a new login option now featured front and center in the sign in dialog, you... |
3 December 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Despite numerous attempts, Yahoo has failed to create a true social experience for its services. Of course, Yahoo Mail is the most popular webmail client in the world and Yahoo Messenger is one of the top instant messengers, but social networking has been a disappointment so far, to the point where it has pretty muc... |
2 December 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Tinychat, a rapidly growing bootstrapped startup, announced on November 16 2009 the launch of Tinychat.tv, which is in fact a Ustream-like platform that would offer users the possibility to live stream any video or show hosted on Tinychat. The new service uses the Tinychat's API as its basis and allows people to... |
17 November 2009
12:15 GMT |
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Facebook may be winning the social wars for now but Google is not giving up just yet. At first glance, Google may not be exactly the first that pops into your head when you think social features but that's because it’s taking a different approach than Facebook for example, a less successful one though so f... |
4 November 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Facebook has been making some significant changes to some aspects of the service for the past months mostly in direct response to Twitter's popularity. The social network has been opening up its vast content and turning away from the traditional stance, encouraging users to share more. Still, Twitter is far more... |
27 October 2009
07:15 GMT |
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Google and Facebook are on a collision course and, as their products start to overlap more, there will be increased competition between them. It's going to be a while before an all out war, maybe even a few years, but, already, the signs are out there. Earlier this week, Facebook released a simplified method for... |
3 October 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Facebook is betting hard on its Facebook Connect program and for good reason. The latter has already proven quite a success and this is just the beginning since, if the company has its way, you'll be seeing Connect on almost every website out there. Still, it has a long way to go so the social network has launch... |
1 October 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Facebook is one of the largest sites in the world at the moment but it's not satisfied with being just another site on the Internet, not even the biggest, it wants to be the Internet and its most powerful weapon so far has been Facebook Connect. The login standard has seen great adoption by websites big and smal... |
30 September 2009
04:43 GMT |
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The power of having one fifth of the world's online population visit your site is barely being used at the moment by Facebook and, though the social network has some big plans and big ambitions, the potential could be bigger than even it believes at the moment. Nevertheless, the social network is slowly but sure... |
20 August 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Facebook Connect, the social network's log in standard, has been a big success for the company and is seeing greater adoption across major sites. But most of the implementations so far have gone little beyond letting users log in with their Facebook credentials. But this is just the first step for the social net... |
17 August 2009
11:48 GMT |
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Online identities are becoming an integral part of life; if someone wants to find out more about you it wouldn't take too long to find the information they want on the web. The problem isn't finding the info, it's the fact that it is scattered across dozens of online accounts from social networks to ph... |
15 August 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Facebook's login standard slash “take over the world device" Connect scores another major victory with NBC announcing support for the feature across most of the TV network's online properties. The “login using Facebook” button has already started popping up on NBC sites and, while the stan... |
13 August 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Drupal, one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), has gotten a lot more social with the release of a new module allowing users to authenticate using popular login standards like Facebook Connect or OpenID. The module, called Socialize, was developed by Gigya, a startup with experience in social media ... |
25 July 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Facebook may be the biggest social network in the world and one of the most visited web sites but it doesn't stop here. The company wants to get as many people as possible using the service and while the site is already the most visited destination online it aims to connect to its users even when they are visiti... |
22 July 2009
07:07 GMT |
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Yelp, the user review site aimed at finding the best local shops or restaurants, becomes another big player to adopt Facebook Connect, the login standard that is becoming increasingly successful for the company. After having just been adopted by TV.com, a major player in the online video and community site market, an... |
3 July 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Facebook Connect continues to gain traction as the universal login standard with the addition of online video and TV-centric community site TV.com. The integration with Facebook Connect will allow users to easily post on their Facebook Wall and News Feeds any comment they leave on the site, regarding a TV show or a n... |
30 June 2009
08:27 GMT |
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OpenID scores a major victory today as Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, becomes a “relying party” for the log-in standard. Facebook's announcement of full support for the log-in standard is somewhat surprising as it already has what many believe to be a competitor to the ope... |
21 May 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Facebook has introduced Facebook Connect for iPhone, enabling developers to add a “social” touch to their apps with “just a few lines of Objective-C code.” The aim is to produce iPhone apps that allow users to login to Facebook from within the program, find friends and communicate.“Faceb... |
16 March 2009
11:57 GMT |
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