I am a long time Flickr user, so much so that I was in the group that was forced to transition from my original Flickr username to logging in with a Yahoo! ID. Needless to say, that was not the best day for Flickr in the eyes of many, but thankfully changes have come and more »

You can now connect their Amazon account to their Facebook account. Once you do, you’ll get a list of your friends’ birthdays along with gift suggestions and you’ll also see recommendations based on what your friends like. You and your friends will have a profile on the site listing your favorite books, movies, and TV more »

Fresh on the heels of it’s announcement of a new like button for Fan Pages and Open Graph platform, Facebook has announced at its F8 developer conference that it is shutting down the popular Facebook Connect service. Over 80,000 partners used the service to allow Facebook users to register with their accounts. “We are actually more »

Netflix just doesn’t sit still, does it? The latest news from Netflix is you are now able to share your movie ratings on Facebook using Facebook Connect. The whole procedure is simply going to a specific site and logging into Facebook Connect. If you don’t want your account hooked into Facebook, you can always opt more »

Presumably having learned something from the Beacon fiasco, Facebook has announced a new feature very similar to it called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect will allow sites that choose to participate to share user names and logins, so once a user logs into Facebook they will automatically be logged into the participating sites.

Facebook Connect will also show the Connect website’s a user has visited on their newsfeed. Anyone who remembers Beacon is sure to be bristling at the moment, but you can relax. Facebook has learned its lesson and this time will provide privacy settings that will allow you to control what actions will appear on your newsfeed. This is what they should have done with Beacon, but instead they didn’t even inform users that their activity would be posted at all! They’ve also promised that websites wanting to participate will be carefully screened. No word on how they plan to protect all those usernames and passwords from being stolen however. This kind of program could easily become a hackers dream if proper security measures aren’t taken.