Facebook and MySpace: Ultimate Mashup
At a short event today, MySpace and Facebook announced a new mashup initiative that lets you login to MySpace using Facebook Connect. Upon visiting MySpace.com, you will now see a login box with the text, “Mashup your Facebook Likes and public profile info to connect with all the entertainment you love for up-to-the-minute news, photos, [...]
Read MoreFacebook Blocks Apple Over Ping
The launch of the Ping social network at Apple’s recent media event isn’t really something most of us expected. It’s an interesting service which uses your social network to help you discover new music within iTunes. Of course, in order for it to be of any use, you need to have a social graph for [...]
Read MoreXAuth Aims At Facebook Connect to Make Social Sharing Simpler
XAuth is an initiative by Meebo in partnership with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace, JanRain, Disqus and Gigya that aims to simplify sharing on the web. Just about every website you visit these days has a slew of sharing buttons for various social media websites. Even if it’s one button, it provides you a menu of [...]
Read MoreYouTube Leverages Facebook Connect for Real-time Video Sharing
YouTube has had the ability to connect with your Facebook account for quite some time now, but hasn’t really done anything interesting with the Facebook Connect technology until now. Up until this point, you could connect your YouTube account with Facebook for the purpose of connecting with your Facebook friends on YouTube. You could also [...]
Read MoreGlobal Grind Implements Facebook Connect
True story. I had just finished reading Lynne’s comment about the influential Black Tech Evangelists on Twitter and decided to start clicking around in people’s profiles and sites. I stumbled across Miss Theda’s site and found a gem. Director Charles Stone III had updated his international, award-winning ‘Wasssup’ commercial for Bud Light to highlight the [...]
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