Word: facebooked
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Thanks to a new Google project, soon any website can be its own Facebook...
...running on blogs, however, we'll be able to go to a page and choose from thousands of applications, and add them, free, to our site. (Here's a list of some of the applications. As Friend Connect grows, expect the list of applications to explode; Google, like Facebook before it, is trying to create a "platform" for developers to make money by reaching an audience of millions...
...this system is it makes it easier for users to take their friend lists with them. Having signed in, users can follow the activities of their friends on Friend Connect sites. So, in my real estate blog example, if I installed a Wall app (just like the one on Facebook) people could comment on stories. However, those comments would only be visible to their friends; if a user didn't sign in, they wouldn't even see the Wall...
...Friend Connect works, the ramifications are huge, of course. It's another smart move for Google, which would be able to serve up even more targeted advertising to users - and make even more money. Through a project called OpenSocial, Google has been working to fight back against Facebook's closed network while mimicking, on the wide-open Web, Facebook's core advantages - Facebook is a place where a user not only defines his or her set of friends, but the applications he or she wants to use. Those two things - your friend list and the things you like...
...Martin said, HUDS wishes to experiment with other mediums to cater to the varied communication preferences of students. “The more channels of communication you can open, the better you are,” Martin said. The most recent blog post announced the creation of a HUDS Facebook group and a Facebook application created by an undergraduate that rates HUDS food items. “All of this, of course, is an effort to share information with you and get feedback in the mediums where you are most comfortable,” Mayer wrote on the blog...