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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 77 days ago http://www.appscout.com/2008/05/facebooks_reach_expands_to_web_with_connect.php
A day after MySpace introduced a data-sharing initiative to let users put their profile information on various Web sites across the Internet, Facebook chimed in with a similar initiative, dubbed Facebook Connect.
"Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to 'connect' their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site," senior platform manager Dave Morin wrote in a Friday blog post . "This will now enable third party Web sites to implement and offer even more features of Facebook Platform off of Facebook."
The service will be publicly available in the next few weeks, he said.
Members have been able to share basic profile information with third-party Web sites since Facebook launched the first version of its API in August 2006, Morin said. Last year, Facebook launched its Platform Web site, which lets developers build applications for the social networking site.
With connect, users can import profile information to sites like Digg, and connect with other Facebook friends who have commented on or Dugg stories on the site.
Privacy settings members have selected will remain in effect when they move to outside Web sites, as will profile changes, Morin said. "For example, if a user changes their profile picture, or removes a friend connection, this will be automatically updated in the external Web site," he wrote.
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