Facebook: Use Connect! It's easy!

The marketing push for Facebook Connect, the social network's new data-portability project, goes on. Their angle: It's really easy to install on any site or blog.

A post on Facebook's developer blog contains a video that explains the most basic way to integrate Facebook Connect. The just-under-ten-minute video is the first of several instructional pieces, Facebook engineers said.

Focusing on ease of use is particularly important as Facebook attempts to win over site owners and publishers. There are other data-portability options out there, like OpenID and the just-launched MySpaceID, and Facebook's best bet is to convince the non-social-networking world that Connect is the clean and simple option. There are, after all, loads of non-tech-savvy media properties out there. And Facebook already has an advantage--many of the alternatives just aren't that self-explanatory.

In other news, CNET's Facebook Connect integration went live this week.

[infernalman7]

Integrating this into a quite messy code I have for my website is quite hard. Google Friend Connect seems to offer what most of the bloggers can do. What I think would be best for Facebook is not to just let people integrating their codes into their existing codes but to also offer alternatives for people who would only be able to just copy and paste code into it without altering anything with "Wall Post" widget or something.

[PaperNuncio]

Ummm..does Caroline own stock or something? You do seem to be doing a lot of schilling for Connect.

[DanSaltman]

Maybe she made a secret back door deal ;o

[Will_in_BC]

Hi just trying Facbook Connect which seems to be working as advertized

[JeremyK684]

This is awesome. I love this connection thing. I hate having to create accounts all the time this is just amazing! :)

[MarkjMayhew]

How easy is it to integrate Facebook Connect...my eyes glazed over at the 1 minute mark of that video =)

[vbresan]

Integration?! I wonder what would happen if someone clicked on 'Submit Comment' ;-)

[humanssssss]

I'm not sure why this article was written?!? Journalists are getting desperate. Money does speak volume.

[howardshippin]

"It's complicated." (^o^)

[TonyChopp]

Not so easy at all...I just signed up to use a comment system from www.disqus.com - they're offering one click Facebook Connect installation with Wordpress blogs.

It's not live yet, but the company promises we'll have it by the end of the year!

[brhaynes75]

great stuff