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Facebook Connect

Facebook recently launched Facebook Connect, a way for developers to integrate some of the functionality and data of Facebook into other websites, like Digg, shown to the left.

Through Facebook Connect, users with Facebook profiles will be able to log into other sites and connect their Facebook identities and friends to that service using their existing profile.

Facebook Connect has four primary features:

• Trusted Authentication – Anywhere during the user’s experience that the developer would like to add social context, the user will be able to authenticate and connect their account in a trusted environment. The user will have total control of the permissions granted. This is a proprietary authentication mechanism, but is more streamlined than the existing method and will not require a redirect back to Facebook.
• Real Identity – Users can bring their real identity information with them wherever they go on the open Web, including: basic profile information, profile picture, name, friends, photos, events, groups, and more.
• Friends Access – Users will be able to take their friends with them wherever they go on the open Web. Developers will be able to add rich social context to their websites, and will be able to show which of their Facebook friends already have accounts on their sites.
• Dynamic Privacy – As a user moves around the open Web, their privacy settings will follow, ensuring that users’ information and privacy rules are always up-to-date.

Do you want to test out a demo? Check this out – somethingtoputhere.com

Facebook Connect has the potential to expose millions of new users to nonprofits like Idealist, granting easy access to our services. And when new users sign into Idealist through Facebook Connect, his or her activities on Idealist will show up on their Facebook friend steam. This will exponentially increase exposure of our site to millions of potential new users. Sounds good to me.