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Zoho Implements Facebook Connect – Heat For Google Docs?
It seems that everyone nowadays have started to understand the power of Facebook and how use of Facebook can lead to direct profits and hassle free user management. Web- based online office suite provider, Zoho recently announced the implementation of Facebook Connect on their website. This strategic implementation alone opens up Zoho’s on line application [...]
Facebook v/s Google – the New Translation Wars?
Though it’s a little early and too presumptuous to term these the “translate” wars, Google andFacebook seem to be at loggerheads. The company whose growth and dominance over the market quite closely resembles Google’s initial appeal graph is filled with widgets, quizzes, apps and a plethora of features sure to keep you glued to just Facebook.
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The Fight Of Owning The Social Graph Now Goes Regional – Facebook Connect Available In 67 Languages
While Twitter may ask in its internal notes whether they are the Internet, the real topdogs in making its presence felt is really Google and Facebook, with their Connect Platforms. It is, especially for Facebook an escape of the problem that it faces the most in terms of monetization – People not moving out of the site.
Facebook launches Developer Contest in India
Facebook seems to be capitalising on its popularity. There’s always a buzz about Facebook across the Internet. Be it articles on “Is there a possibility of Facebook soon becoming the new Myspace.” (Check PCWorld analysis – not that we totally agree with them ) or the new excitement over Facebook declaring revenue worth $500 million. [...]
Facebook connect gaining wide acceptance, doing wonders for publishers
Facebook connect seems to be doing really well in terms of growth and adaptation. Facebook connect’s success marks the ambitious expansion plans of Facebook to capture new waters in terms of future Ad network and as a potential payment gateway.
Effectiveness of Facebook connect as disclosed to SAI :
Publishers using Facebook Connect as an alternative for [...]
Facebook Connect Vs Google Friend Connect – Who Should You Connect With?
Both Facebook and Google were working for sometime on their respective connect platforms to brings social networking features and data portability from their platform to any other platform that wants to use a facebook or a google id. The connect platforms are much like open id which allows users to have a single sign on [...]
Facebook Calls it Off With Google. It will not Participate in ‘Friend Connect’ Citing Privacy Concerns
A few days back we wrote about Google’s Friend Connect and how it had partnered with Facebook to create what seemed to be like a happy marriage. Everyone was raving about the Internet becoming more Social – it still is anyway with networks opening themselves up and carrying information elsewhere. How many of you watch have watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S? And how many of you remember that episode in which Ross and Rachel get married in a drunken stupor?
Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.
David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. Website owners will be able to use the hosted application to allow interactions with visitors from social-networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, by copying and pasting snippets of code into their site.
“The web is getting better by getting [...]
Share MySpace, Facebook Data With Other Sites – The Death of the Walled Garden Imminent Soon?
MySpace recently announced the launch of a new service called “Data Availability” which will allows MySpace users to share their public profile data with other Web sites like Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay, and Photobucket and exercise a degree of control over what information is to be shared, as also, with whom. Instead of updating information on every site, MySpace users [...]