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"Facebook Connect, the company's tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more.\nDuring a press conference today at Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand would be eliminated as part of the launch of Open Graph. Instead, the company is standardizing the interactions between Facebook and third parties via Facebook's new Open Graph protocol and the OAuth 2.0 standard.\nEarlier today, Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph protocol and API, which will allow developers to more easily access social graphs and integrate them with their web services.  Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft are among its 30 plus launch partners.  \nBecause of these changes in policy and philosophy, the \"Facebook Connect\" brand will cease to exist.  It's still not clear exactly how Facebook will replace Facebook Connect or if it will be called something else.\n\n\nFor more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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