And that is the distilled brilliance of Facebook Connect: It is the show and tell of the Internet age. The idea behind Facebook Connect is deceptively simple. Web sites such as Hulu.com, Citysearch, ...

Facebook Connect, the new service that lets users log in to other sites using their Facebook identities, now has its own plugin directory. Connect doesn’t just want to be a sign-in system, it lets ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former news writer for The Verge. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to deliver the opening keynote to the ...

Site builder Webs has just added Facebook Connect, which will let its site creators and visitors share content back to Facebook. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Today's launch of Facebook Connect for iPhone, including several games using the functionality, is a big deal for iPhone gaming. It sounds pretty simple: sign into an iPhone game using your Facebook ...

I've been reading what all the wise people (they have beards) have to say about Facebook Connect. This is, so I learned, Facebook's attempt to pile more and more information about you into their tall ...

Facebook may be mired in scandals at present, but today it attempted to shift the public’s attention toward the future—specifically, a future built around an even more omnipresent Facebook. “The next ...