Well, Facebook Connect is not just a bright piece that makes your log in breezy. It has transformed the way we interact in on a social network. It not only enable you log in to many sites with your Facebook ID (Open ID), but it also pings back your participation (if you allow it to) to your Facebook profile. Facebook Connect is an honest attempt from Facebook to allow its members access to Facebook user data outside Facebook itself. Connect keeps you connected with your Facebook identity, friends and others at any website. Whether for business, blogging or socializing Facebook Connect could be beneficial for users in various ways. Out of the lot, we sorted out top 5 benefits of Facebook Connect that can be of real help.

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Yahoo, the other day, came out with their version of Facebook Connect i.e. Yahoo Updates. Its a collaboration between Yahoo! and JS-Kit, a leading distributed social network connecting more than 600,000 sites across the Web, including AOL, Evite, Experian, JetBlue, Sun Microsystems, and WorldNow. Through this integration, JS-Kit is making it easy for their vast network of publishers to benefit from the power of Yahoo! Updates. Eventually, each story a publisher sends to the Yahoo! Updates feed will benefit from referral traffic to Yahoo!'s most popular sites: Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Toolbar, Profiles, and more. Yahoo! has implemented the open standard OAuth in its system.

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Facebook has a new face now and lemme tell you this face is not gonna be forgot amongst thousands of others. I am talking of Facebook Connect, which is the next evolution of Facebook Platform.

What's New at Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect brings in the concept of web-wide log-in. It lets you use your Facebook ID and password to sign-in to third-party sites. It uses the concept of OpenID into effect. OpenID, if you're not familiar with it, lets you use a single username and password to log on to numerous sites.

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