Digg adds support for Facebook Connect
May 7th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 47 times, 1 so far today
Digg adds support for Facebook Connect
Digg is one of the most popular social bookmarking web services on the web.
They have just implemented Facebook Connect on their network which has been a much awaited feature addition.
This would enable Facebook users to log into the website without creating a brand new account.
Facebook users also get the ability to push their activity back to Facebook social network so that their contacts can see what they have been digging on Digg.
CNN and CitySearch are two other popular online destinations which have implemented Facebook Connect.
This is a major feature addition for Digg as they can now target their services to the huge user base of Facebook.
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May 8th, 2009 at 08:41 pm
I enabled the feature 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.
May 13th, 2009 at 03:48 am
Congrats to Digg for enabling third party authentication through Facebook Connect, but I wonder why they’ve limited only connected their site with Facebook.
JanRain has a universal login solution called RPX (http://rpxnow.com), and it includes much of the functionality of Facebook Connect, but also allows users to sign-in to enabled sites using an account from Google, Yahoo, MySpace, AOL, Windows Live ID and Twitter. Like FB Connect, RPX allows for a bi-directional activity flow between an enabled website and a social network, thereby allowing websites to extend their reach beyond their own property.
Integration is turn-key, and RPX can be up and running on most sites in a few hours or less.