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Facebook Connect Now Live On Digg

  • Hey, this digg connect seems odd! When i connect it says there is already a digg account with same email id.


    That means facebook sharing email id of the user! FB entered into some special agreement with digg. Did fb made money out of our emails?

  • Not at all. Facebook Connect allows application developers to match existing accounts by email hashes *only*. The actual email address is never shared, but a one way hash can be matched so that an FBC application can recognize the user only if they already have previous knowledge of that user’s email address.


    The hashes are described in the API’s Connect.registerUsers() method, which you can view here: http://wiki.dev...t.registerUsers


    Cheers,


    Bill Shupp

22 Jul 09

Facebook Video: Now Serving 1 Billion Views A Month, Including This Amazing Zuck Impression

  • Of course, the best part of the video comes from a Facebook engineer named Putnam as he describes Mark Zuckerberg’s initial reaction to the Video idea. Just watch the clip below.
  • Also be sure to check out the full video, though beware of the ridiculously sappy piano music playing throughout.
28 Jan 08

Facebook User-Data Gathering Goes Viral | Soshable | Social Media Blog

  • For the most part, it’s worked so far. Developers will now be able to extend their Facebook applications to their own websites by using the formerly-closed JavaScript client library.  Since it does not require any server side code on the developer’s server, they can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any Web site that serves static HTML.  The result: putting a Facebook app on a website is now extremely simple.
24 Jun 07

How Facebook could crush MySpace, Yahoo!, and Google. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

  • If Facebook does decide to become an all-encompassing portal, it would be a bit late to the party. Customizable homepages like My Yahoo! and iGoogle already let you cram your favorite Web stuff onto a single page; there's also the trendy start-up NetVibes, which Slate's Reihan Salam called "the ultimate mashup." But a Facebook homepage would have a huge intrinsic advantage: The social network is already built in. Sure, the other portals incorporate Gmail and BBC headlines and YouTube searches and podcast directories. By adding a social context to all of this content, however, Facebook would immediately trump its main competition. With Facebook's News Feed, it's elementary to see when your friends sign up for a new product or service. That means the best add-ons become viral instantly—Platform's biggest success story so far, a music sharing app called iLike, started growing at the rate of 200,000 users a day.
13 Jun 07

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

  • In this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.



    To start, my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.

  • And then, on top of that, Facebook is providing a highly viral distribution engine for applications that plug into its platform. As a user, you get notified when your friends start using an application; you can then start using that same application with one click. At which point, all of your friends become aware that you have started using that application, and the cycle continues. The result is that a successful application on Facebook can grow to a million users or more within a couple of weeks of creation.
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