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Facebook Connect Has About 250 Million Monthly Users

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:29:28 +0000

Facebook platform chief Ethan Beard has announced that Facebook Connect has about 250 million users at the Le Web conference in Paris, France. About 100 million users began using Facebook Connect within the past year. About 10,000 new websites are adding Facebook Connect per day. [BGR]

About 60 Million People Use Facebook Connect Per Month [Stats]

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:56:15 +0000

At the Le Web conference in Paris, Facebook Development Network Director Ethan Beard hit the stage to talk about Facebook Connect. “We aspire to be a technology that people use to connect to things they care about no matter where they are,” stated Beard. Currently over 80,000 websites and devices have integrated Facebook connect since the feature launched in December 2008. Between those 80,000 websites and devices, about 60 million people are reached per month through Facebook Connect.

According to comScore, about half of global top 100 websites and about two-thirds of the U.S. Top 100 websites have integrated Facebook Connect. The Huffington Post even saw a 500% increase in Facebook referrals after integrating the Facebook Connect feature.

In terms of applications, there are about 500,000 applications built on Facebook. Beard said that he was surprised by the sudden growth of social gaming by big companies such as Zynga, Playdom, and Playfish. Over 70% of Facebook users are from outside the U.S. according to Beard.

MySpace Users May Soon Be Able To Share Content On Facebook Using Connect

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:17:51 +0000

MySpace and Facebook are rumored to be working in conjunction with each other on a new project. The new project involves MySpace users having the ability to share content on Facebook using Facebook Connect. The rumor was started by The Telegraph UK.

This deal is probably being set up by current MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. Natta was the previous Chief Revenue Officer and VP of Operations at Facebook. This means that you may start seeing MySpace Videos and music being embedded on the Facebook News Feed. Last week Natta even said that he does not consider Facebook to be a competitor any more.

I think that this would be a good deal all around for both parties. Facebook users would see more artistic expression provided by MySpace users. Artists on MySpace would have a bigger audience.

Former Facebook Platform Manager Josh Elman Joining Twitter

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:24:36 +0000

Josh Elman was the former platform manager at Facebook. But now Elman is joining another California based social networking slash micro-blogging firm Twitter.com. Elman is joining Twitter at a time where the micro-blogging company is receiving a lot of interest from third party developers.

TweetDeck is one of the most used Adobe AIR applications and Tweetie is one of the most downloaded applications on the iPhone. When Elman worked at Facebook, he was responsible for Facebook Connect. Elman was also responsible for cleaning up the design of the social network after applications made Facebook look very cluttered.

Elman has also previously worked for LinkedIn, Zazzle, and RealNetworks. Louis Gray broke the news of Elman’s hire after spotting the Twitter official list of employees. Twitter has about 113 employees.

Netflix Gets Connected On Facebook

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:08:11 +0000

Netflix Inc. is another company that has joined in on the Facebook Connect bandwagon. Netflix linked their ratings system to the social network so that when a user rates a movie on the video rental service website, it gets linked to their profile.

This move is slight competition to LivingSocial. LivingSocial is a Facebook application system where users can vote on music albums, beer, books, iPhone applications, movies, restaurants, ski slopes, TV shows, and video games.

Netflix has over 10 million subscribers. Netflix is hoping to leverage that user base to connect with Facebook’s 175 million users. “Movies make for great conversations,” stated Netflix VP of Product Management Gibson Biddle.

Facebook Files Lawsuit Against Power.com

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:22:15 +0000

Power.com is a social networking company with 5 million users and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company raised $8 million Series A investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. On December 30, Facebook sued Power.com.

Power.com aggregates all of the activities from different social networks and places it on one page. Facebook claims that Power.com is violating copyright and trademarks. Facebook also referenced the scraping of proprietary data from the social network in the lawsuit.

“After discussing the issues with Power.com for about a month without reaching a resolution, we filed a lawsuit to enforce our terms of service, maintain the integrity of our site and to assure our users’ privacy and security are protected,” stated Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for Facebook.

Steve Vachani, founder of Power.com stated that his company has been in discussions with Facebook to get their feedback. Facebook suggested that Power.com uses Facebook Connect instead of scraping the data directly.

Facebook attempted to stop Power.com for using data without permission. The first complaint was sent on December 1 when Power.com was first announced. On December 12, Vachani stated that Facebook Connect would be implemented in two weeks but then asked for an extension. After December 26, Power.com kept using Facebook in an unauthorized manner.

That was the last straw. Stay tuned for more updates regarding this lawsuit.

[via TechCrunch]