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"Workstir is a relatively new site you might not be immediately familiar with; it\u2019s a service for submitting work requests for everything from home repairs to web design, where people looking for work can then browse those listings and submit bids.  The site just implemented Facebook Connect, and it\u2019s a great example of what makes the portable identity service so intriguing.\nFirst is the obvious \u2013 you can sign up for Workstir without creating an account, but instead using your Facebook login info.  That\u2019s a big deal in its own right \u2013 I probably wouldn\u2019t sign up for Workstir if it required a lengthy sign up process - but we already know about that.  The bigger deal is how Workstir takes other data from your Facebook profile to make the user experience on the site much more user-friendly.\n\n\n\n\nSince Workstir knows your location (that you've provided to Facebook), it can immediately show you listings in your area, rather than requiring you to do a search.  Moreover, when you post a listing, your location is pre-selected, saving you time in the process of getting that listing online.  \nThis might not seem like a huge deal, but as a first-time user of the site, the experience is certainly better than other classified sites where you have to navigate to your city.  Also, when you post a listing, you\u2019ll get the added benefit of it being broadcast to your social network back on Facebook, significantly widening the audience of people that might be able to fill your request.\nAnother aspect of Workstir\u2019s implementation to consider: the trustworthiness that using someone\u2019s Facebook profile builds.  As opposed to Craigslist, where everything is relatively anonymous, when users post via Facebook Connect, they are adding at least some credibility behind their listing, since you can click-thru to their profile, see who their friends are, see pictures, etc.  Workstir also plans to use Connect to let users leave reviews of workers who list their services on the site.\nOn a sidenote, we\u2019re still in the very early days of Facebook Connect and on the lookout for interesting implementations to share, so drop us a line if you\u2019re doing something cool with it (or Google Friend Connect or MySpace ID for that matter).  \nSome other great ideas - especially pertaining to Connect and its implications for ecommerce - can be found in the presentation from Razorfish embedded below \u2013 Portable Social Graphs: Imagining their Potential (via Stay N\u2019 Alive):\n\n\nPortable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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