Ryan MacMillan

I’m using a song lyric in each of my blog post titles this week. I promise I’ll stop next week.

A quick overview of some of the commentary I’ve been reading on Facebook Connect - from ReadWriteWeb, Gottaquirk and Jeremiah Owyang. Here’s the quote:

Facebook Connect will allow corporate websites to allow users to authenticate, interact, and share with their Facebook network –all without leaving the corporate website

A few weeks ago, I was working with a friend on a project that would require us to build a community. This is a rare occurrence, as we tend to spend our lives telling people to facilitate and engage with existing communities rather than build new ones. But the project was cause-related and required its own branded environment (for various reasons), so was potentially justifiable. As I understand it, Facebook Connect would now allow me to use Facebook’s social network functionality in a third-party space. Marvellous.

However, the issues around monetisation, and therefore privacy, seem to remain as woolly and worrying as ever. If anyone’s got some really good coverage and opinion pieces on this, please let me know.