Facebook Comments Box
Facebook improves its Comments Box: platform, social relevance, moderation, distribution; http://eicker.at/FacebookCommentsBox
Tagged: Plugins Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Comments
Facebook makes comments real-time and seems to open its functionality to third-parties; http://eicker.at/FacebookComments
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Canvas
Tipodean Technologies announces preview launch of Canvas, web-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim; http://eicker.at/Canvas
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Dear Internet, We Have Diaspora Working
Diaspora is on track to launch the 1st open source version of its social network on 15th September; http://j.mp/bEcrHD
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Sign-ins via Janrain Engage (RPX)
Janrain Engage (RPX) lets website visitors sign-in with social media accounts, publishes usage stats; http://j.mp/9SQ05E
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Microsoft Docs for Facebook
Microsoft Docs is an early user of the Facebook Open Graph: new Facebook app, attacking Google Docs; http://j.mp/8XAalS
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Gerrit Eicker
MS: “Built on Microsoft Office 2010, the Docs app enables Facebook users for the first time to create and share Microsoft Office documents directly with their Facebook friends, using the Office tools they already know. – It’s been quite a sprint for the FUSE team to deliver this beta – from concept to its initial implementation in less than four months. The FUSE Labs mission is to explore a range of ‘Future Social Experiences’. In this exploration it’s our belief that we may increase the value of Office ‘docs’ by giving everyone the ability to seamlessly take their friends and connections with them from Facebook to docs.com.”
RWW: “With Docs, you can create new documents right in the web application or upload them from your desktop. Docs gives you the option to share documents privately or you can allow a select group of your Facebook friends to edit the document with you. A button next to every document allows you to add additional editors at any point. In our tests, the editor wasn’t working properly yet (though the document viewer works just fine). We will take a closer look at Docs editing features once it is fully up and running. … There can be little doubt that this is a direct attack against Google Docs. Even though Google Docs only offers relatively basic editing features, the service’s collaboration tools allow it to stand out from Microsoft’s products. Until now, collaborating on Microsoft Office documents was always a rather difficult task for Office users and generally involved using third-party software.”
TC: “Docs.com can be shared with your Facebook friends, and the documents can be switched back and forth between the Web and the desktop. Microsoft, of course, is also moving Office online, but I have a feeling Docs is going to take off faster just through Facebook. Microsoft partnered with Facebook to build Docs.com to show what could be done with Facebook’s new Open Graph API and Social plugins. For instance, Docs.com will begin using Facebook’s new auto-login feature it announced earlier today so that users won’t even need to click on a Facebook Connect button to get started.”
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Facebook Social Plugins
Social Plugins enable engaging social experiences with Facebook on any website; http://j.mp/aWwAJl
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Facebook Open Graph
The Open Graph protocol enables the integration of web pages into the social graph across Facebook; http://j.mp/bIBGzE
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Facebook: “The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your web pages into the social graph. It is currently designed for web pages representing profiles of real-world things — things like movies, sports teams, celebrities, and restaurants. Once your pages become objects in the graph, users can establish connections to your pages as they do with Facebook Pages. Based on the structured data you provide via the Open Graph protocol, your pages show up richly across Facebook: in user profiles, within search results and in News Feed. … You can also add any of a number of social plugins to your site with a line of HTML.”
Facebook Developer Blog: “We’re hosting our third f8 conference in San Francisco today. There are two important themes behind everything we’re delivering today. First, the Web is moving to a model based on the connections between people and all the things they care about. Second, this connections-based Web is well on its way to being built and providing value to both users and developers – the underlying graph of connections just needs to be mapped in a way that makes it easy to use and interoperable. – Today we are introducing three new components of Facebook Platform to make the connections-based Web more real: social plugins, the Open Graph protocol, and the Graph API.”
TC: “With Open Graph, Facebook Sets Out To Make The Entire Web Its Tributary System. … Basically, the Open Graph API is a way for Facebook to allow other companies, sites, services, etc to interact with Facebook without having to create a dedicated Facebook Page. Big deal, you might think – isn’t that what Connect is? Yes, to an extent, but it would seem that the idea here is to go way past that. – With the Open Graph API, Facebook wants to allow anyone to take their own site and essentially wrap it in a Facebook blanket. This doesn’t necessarily mean in a visual way, but rather that these sites which use the APIs will be able to replicate many of the core Facebook functionality on their own sites. … The idea is to keep expanding Facebook’s social graph, and more importantly, it’s social reach. … (Facebook) Connect doesn’t go far enough. If Facebook truly wants to be the main hub of social data on the web, it needs more data coming in from more sites, and Open Graph can provide that. … As Yammer founder David Sacks tweeted tonight, ‘Now that Facebook is willing to share user emails, Facebook Connect will become default signup for most websites.‘”
TNW: “Ignore Facebook Open Graph at your peril – this is Web 3.0. … The importance of Facebook’s Open Graph announcement cannot be overstated. … There’s only one fly in the ointment: Facebook itself. That name ‘Open Graph’ is a bit of a misnomer. With Facebook at its heart it’s not truly open and that could be its downfall. Open Graph is Facebook’s baby and Mark Zuckerberg and friends are ultimately in control of how it is used. … A new age is dawning, welcome to Web 3.0.”
eMarketer: “The open graph will attempt to make the Web more social. The intent is to bring together social actions from all over the Web and allow for a rich depiction (and semantic memory) of what people are liking, reading, reviewing and rating. Using the examples of Yelp and Pandora, each of which are businesses with vast quantities of information about what people like and don’t like in the realms of local businesses and music, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Open Graph would make the Web a richer, more connected experience. … Overall, the success of Facebook’s plans depends directly on Web firms’ willingness to add the social features announced today – along with consumers’ willingness to click a ‘Like’ button frequently, or ignore it. Judging from the number of press releases I’ve received today about ‘Like’ from Facebook’s business partners, I’d say that at the very least, brands are fairly excited to see what happens.”
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WordPress(.com), Twitterfeed, PubSubHubbub
WordPress(.com) supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH; and rssCloud), matching perfectly with Twitterfeed now; http://j.mp/bOBqYY
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WP Plugins
Incsub has launched WP Plugins, an app store for WordPress, WPMU and BuddyPress; http://j.mp/1A7WrQ
Janrain: “How people prefer to sign-in to sites on the Web: 38% Google, 24% Facebook, 14% Yahoo, 5% Twitter, 5% Windows Live, 14% Other. … Overall relative popularity of each network has held steady during the past quarter. Google remains the most preferred network with nearly 40% share. Facebook continues to be a popular option, and Yahoo!’s share has grown slightly since April, with 14% preferring a Yahoo! account to sign-in. While Twitter’s popularity in the social web ecosystem continues to rise, it still remains the 4th most popular network for sign-in across our customers’ websites. … The story is different with media companies. On news media sites, Yahoo! is the leading choice for sign-in with 34% share. As a content-focused network, Yahoo! users proactively seek out news and timely content across the web, making it no surprise that the network performs well in this industry segment. Facebook and Google also maintain strong presences on news media sites. … For magazine publishers, Facebook comprises 57% share of all logins. Many magazine publishers focus on lifestyle and interests, a natural pairing with Facebook users who like to share their interests with friends. … A look across Europe shows that Facebook is the most popular network for sign-in, followed by Google and Twitter: 39% Facebook, 26% Google, 12% Twitter, 8% Windows Live, 7% Yahoo, 6% Hyves, 2% Other. … Preferred social networks for sharing: 53% Facebook, 37% Twitter, 8% Yahoo, 7% MySpace.“