Facebook is ready to introduce a Beacon-like feature that allows your Facebook friends to track your web-whereabouts with a service called Connect. The Facebook Connect feature will allow participating Connect site owners to share user names and logins. This allows users to sign into Facebook and surf another connect site without having to create new user names and password to access that site. Another aspect of Connect feature will update your facebook newsfeed with news as to what participating Connect websites you have visited. For Example, if you have “dugg” an article on Digg your Facebook Newsfeed would report this.
Facebook connect works in a remote way like OpenID. Basically, using this feature will allow users to access various web sites without having to create a new profile and tediously enter all your personal data. With this feature users can easily connect their friends to the website of choice. As an example, if you watch a video on a web site – such as CBS – you can invite your friends to join and watch the video clip with you. So far, Movable Type, Amiando, CBS.com, CitySearch, CNET, CollegeHumor, Disney-ABC Television Group, Evite, Flock, Kongregate, Loopt, Plaxo, Radar, Red Bull, Seesmic, Socialthing!, StumbleUpon, The Insider, Twitter, Uber, Vimeo, and Xobni have announced participation in the Connect program.
