A few days ago, social networking site Facebook revealed more details about an initiative called Facebook Connect, a service that will let partners integrate the company’s social networking features with their site.
More and more sites that provide content–including Technology Review–require registration to access certain features, like adding comments to articles. But with Facebook Connect, people can use their Facebook identification to log-on, comment on stories, and even post their activity to their Facebook news feed.
According to the New York Times, a number of sites will soon be using Facebook’s service, including the Discovery Channel, The San Francisco Chronicle, the news aggregation site Digg, the genealogy network Geni, and online video site Hulu.
Techcrunch also recently announced its participation in Facebook Connect: Read the rest of this entry »