Yesterday MySpace announced that you can use your MySpace profile on other sites. Not to be outdone, today Facebook announced their version. It’s called Facebook Connect and it’s a good sign that data portability is catching on. Especially because Facebook usually doesn’t follow suit when it comes to sharing data (unless it’s for advertising).
Facebook Has Connections
On the heels of MySpace’s Data Portability announcement, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Connect, which the social networking site is calling "the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to ‘connect’ their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site."
Facebook Making Their Site Safer For Kids
It’s been nearly four months since MySpace announced a joint agreement with 49 state Attorneys General to protect minors online—and now Facebook’s finally gotten around to signing on. CNET reports (emphasis added):
MySpace, Facebook Still On Top
If MySpace were to lose its top spot among social networks, it’d have a long way to fall. Though US visits to the powerhouse were down five percent since last year, MySpace still commanded nearly 74% of the social networking market, according to Hitwise. Facebook, long in second place but up 32%, pulled in nearly 15% of US social networkers, a share that towers over its nearest competitor’s.
Facebook Offers To Share Info From Flickr, del.icio.us
Think your friends don’t know enough about you already? Facebook’s got a fix; the social network now allows users to import stories from other sites.
Ticketmaster Faces Fake Facebook Friends
Okay, marketers and PR types, so listen: It’s very risky to fake stuff on the Internet; you’re likely to be called out. There might have been a time when there was no such thing as bad publicity, but that was before everything was set in digital perpetuity by Google. Today, bad publicity hangs there like a fart on the elevator.And everybody knows it was you.
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Facebook Establishes Promotional Guidelines
If your company has a presence on Facebook, the social network wants you to promote it. Cross its figurative heart, hope to die, and so on. But Facebook wants to keep your company separate from its brand, and so has issued some detailed guidelines.
Facebook Tsks-Tsks Over Unfair Reviews, Fake Accounts
Given the number of Facebook apps in existence, allowing for reviews of them seemed like a good way of tracking which ones worked. Fake reviews have become an issue, though, and Facebook’s attempts to address the problem haven’t been too effective.
Facebook And ConnectU Reach Settlement
As with most legal battles, the ConnectU suit against Facebook has begun to drag out: first filed in September 2004, the legal battle over who originally created the source code for Facebook is still ongoing. Last July, a Massachusetts Federal judge ruled that ConnectU needed concrete evidence to bring their suit.