Facebook Connect – the service that allows developers to access Facebook data from outside of the Facebook chrome – has been met with both cautious optimism and healthy scepticism.
The service holds the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with social sites the web over. At the same time, it gives Facebook access to a great deal of information about how users interact with other social sites.
To date, the sites allowed to use Facebook Connect have been few and far between. But that may soon change, after it was announced that Facebook is accepting more developer submissions. Facebook Connect offers developers access to a number of baked-in features that can both save development time and enhance the Facebook experience for users by leveraging data that already exists within Facebook. (Source: ReadWriteWeb)
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