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"Facebook has announced the official launch of its Facebook Connect offering, which will allow users to port their profile data to third-party Web sites.  The company is announcing 24 launch partners, including Digg, Six Apart, and CitySearch, who are demoing their implementations on stage at F8 this afternoon.  \nFacebook describes the following features of Facebook Connect:\n\n-  Trusted Authentication \u2013 easily authenticate into partner sites using their Facebook account\n-  Real Identity \u2013 leverage their real identity across the Web in a trusted environment\n-  Friend Linking \u2013 take their friends with them wherever they go, enabling trusted social context anywhere on the Web\n-  Dynamic Privacy \u2013 assurance that the same privacy settings users have set up on Facebook will follow them wherever they decide to login throughout the Web\n-  Social Distribution \u2013 share actions on partner sites with their friends back on Facebook through feeds\n\nThe news follows yesterday\u2019s launch of MySpace Data Availability, the rival social network\u2019s product for porting profile data, on Flixster and Eventful.  \nFacebook has announced that the following partners will be participating in Facebook Connect: Amiando, CBS.com, CNET, CollegeHumor, Disney-ABC Television Group, Evite, Flock, Hulu, Kongregate, Loopt, Plaxo, Radar, Red Bull, Seesmic, Socialthing!, StumbleUpon, The Insider, Twitter, Uber, Vimeo and Xobni.\nNone of the implementations are live yet, but Zuckerberg said in his keynote that developer keys will be available today so applications can start being built that leverage Facebook Connect."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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