Facebook Connects comment box to your activity stream
By Dave Jeyes
Facebook has just released a new comment box that site owners can use to allow people to comment using their Facebook profile. Any comments on sites using the Facebook Connect comment box will also show up in your activity stream.
This is the first social widget from the Facebook Connect team for enabling comments anywhere on the Web. Facebook Connect allows users to log into any site using their Facebook user name and password.
This comment box is the first way that Facebook is bringing comments from across the Web back to your identity. Now your friends can see what you’re reading and speaking out about across the Internet.
The new comment box continues Facebook’s trend of trying to incorporate all of your activity into your profile. You can already add your activity on sites like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter or Friendfeed into your Facebook activity stream.
Facebook made it easy for site owners to add the commenting widget to their pages. All the site owner needs to do is sign up for a developer account and copy and paste some code into their blog or content management system.
This allows users to use their existing Facebook profile rather than sign up for a new login for each site they visit. It also promotes the Web page by publishing it in any commenter’s activity stream.
Facebook isn’t the only company racing to connect Web users with their identity. Google Friend Connect is a similar service that provides login and commenting capability for various sites.
With Friend Connect you can sign in using your Google, AIM, Yahoo or OpenID account. Google Friend Connect has more widgets, but doesn’t have a way to share that feed back with your friends as does Facebook.
This is yet another way to share information about your online activity with friends even while you’re not on Facebook. Anyone else wondering at what point your activity stream on Facebook become cluttered and overwhelming for your friends?
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