Digg has done a lot of talking about integrating Facebook Connect, but not much in the way of actual implementing. That changes today, we’ve heard from a source close to the company, and Digg will go live with the service some time today. Facebook gets another big name partner on its increasingly popular Facebook Connect platform.
Digg CEO Jay Adelson has suggested that Facebook Connect is the future of Digg, and that Facebook’s massive userbase will both spur Digg usage and provide a collaborative filter on stories.
With Facebook Connect users will be able to cross-post, share Digg activities on Facebook and auto-follow Facebook friends. Every time you perform an action on Digg (leave a comment, submit a story, etc.) it will ask if you’d like to share with your Facebook friends. At this point you’ll have to approve sharing every time, but soon you’ll be able to set Digg to share all your activity on the site.
What’s taken Digg so long? Facebook’s 200 million users go with Digg like peanut butter and chocolate. CBS had an early implementation of Facebook Connect back in September, nearly 8 months ago.
See our recent video interview with Digg’s Kevin Rose.
Digg: Facebook Connect Demo from Digg Meetups on Vimeo.
ho hum. didn’t know DIGG was still around:)
OMG .. Michael Arrington wrote an article without mentioning Twitter …
Hey, this digg connect seems odd! When i connect it says there is already a digg account with same email id.
That means facebook sharing email id of the user! FB entered into some special agreement with digg. Did fb made money out of our emails?
Not at all. Facebook Connect allows application developers to match existing accounts by email hashes *only*. The actual email address is never shared, but a one way hash can be matched so that an FBC application can recognize the user only if they already have previous knowledge of that user’s email address.
The hashes are described in the API’s Connect.registerUsers() method, which you can view here: http://wiki.dev...t.registerUsers
Cheers,
Bill Shupp
This will be a massive success, but I think we all know that.
Generally if we follow @arrington we already follow @techcrunch so why tweet this post on both. Overkill.
Well its his job. And what about guys like us who don’t have Twitter Accounts?
Special. All arrington’s post on TC are special, unlike others.
FB connect is setup in like 30 minutes for the average developer.
I wish the real Facebook Connect screens were as clean as the one shown in the image.
Most FB connect screens are uuugly and uuunfriendly (e.g. Techcrunch’s).
How about some OpenID support
Joseph,
We’re working on it. Stay tuned for more on that very soon!
Cheers,
Bill
It works.
Just enabled for my account.
Wait, is there a way to disable the “Publish this on Facebook?” window? I’m trying to mow down the front page with diggs or buries and that window pops up every other time.
Facebook Connect is slowly filtering through the Internet and services, eventually to withdraw money from an ATM I will need to type in my login details
just what i need – to tap into the underage, white, aggressive, male population
Great idea, a merger of two fantastic services
our social bookmarking site http://popedition.com/ has had facebook connect for a few months now
but noone cares about popedition
yo MA, when are you gonna hit us up with more interviews
I’m a big fan of Facebook Connect but I can see a lot of people not understanding what’s going on and littering the news feed. Already happening on my Facebook account. Annoying to say the least.
I enabled the update after seeing on official Digg blog, but It turns out to be very annoying because whenever we digg any article it enable a pop up saying Do you want to post it on facebook.
If you are an active digger who Digg more then 100 posts a day. You will always find this feature very annoying.
Its better to keep a check box, which can be used to publish any dugg article on your facebook wall.
We’ll be implementing a check box very soon, so keep an eye out for that.
Regards,
Bill Shupp
Just connected mine to Tech Crunch
Just curious if TechCrunch follows all of FB’s TOS when using FB Connect. If so, then my name should be removed from this comment when I de-authorize the site.