Those big name implementations of Facebook Connect however keeps the company’s identity platform in the press day after day, while Google Friend Connect gets brief spurts of attention. One can understand why Google feels so strongly about competing in the online identity wars. The primary reason is of course that the company doesn’t have an effective system of determining who our friends are (aside from their email services of course).

While it’s difficult to dismiss Google Friend Connect given their wide reach, the service doesn’t appear to be as strong of a competitor given their loosely structured data. While I’m sure there are plenty of people who would say Google Friend Connect is a formidable competitor, I would argue that they are running a distant second to Facebook.

For those who think that a distributed web could win, I’d say “Fat chance!” The main reason being that Facebook has the largest representation of the social graph and the more people they have, the greater the incentive is to join. This snowballs at a rapid pace, and right now there’s nobody close to matching Facebook’s image of the social graph.

Rather than ramble on about why Facebook will win the identity war, I’d simply emphasize how this is clearly a last ditch effort by Google despite the millions of people that have implemented the Friend Connect service. While implementing Twitter as another identity service is a useful feature, Google is essentially attempting to piece together a group of widgets to take on Facebook.

Do you think my dismissal of Google Friend Connect is an unfair assessment?

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The game as the name suggests allow Facebook users to farm; plough, seed, harvest along with rearing trees and animals, and own houses and decorations. It becomes addictive when users play it with their friends and try to level up and put their creativity in arranging and decorating their farms.

Micro-blogging site Twitter does not give directly comparable figures, but data from research firm Nielsen said traffic fell 27.8% between September and October to 18.9 million unique visitors.

Facebook’s strategy head Trevor Johnson told TechRadar, “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook.

“Sixty-nine million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.”

There has been speculation about the impact of the rapid growth of Facebook’s upstart rival Twitter on its user numbers.

But Facebook as a whole, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, has 350 million users around the world.

The site said that worldwide it was achieving 200 billion page views a month, with 1.6 billion messages are sent daily through its chat tool.

In the UK, Facebook said it had 23 million unique users a month, with each of those logging on spending around 25 minutes on the website per day.

[Source: Sky News]

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The game as the name suggests allow Facebook users to farm; plough, seed, harvest along with rearing trees and animals, and own houses and decorations. It becomes addictive when users play it with their friends and try to level up and put their creativity in arranging and decorating their farms.

Micro-blogging site Twitter does not give directly comparable figures, but data from research firm Nielsen said traffic fell 27.8% between September and October to 18.9 million unique visitors.

Facebook’s strategy head Trevor Johnson told TechRadar, “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook.

“Sixty-nine million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.”

There has been speculation about the impact of the rapid growth of Facebook’s upstart rival Twitter on its user numbers.

But Facebook as a whole, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, has 350 million users around the world.

The site said that worldwide it was achieving 200 billion page views a month, with 1.6 billion messages are sent daily through its chat tool.

In the UK, Facebook said it had 23 million unique users a month, with each of those logging on spending around 25 minutes on the website per day.

[Source: Sky News]

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Various metrics—including fan numbers, page growth, frequency of updates, creativity as determined by a panel of judges, and fan engagement—were factored into each page’s score and ultimate rank on the list.

The Companies who made their way into the Big 50 spreads across various industries and sectors including beverage, fashion, technology, media etc., with some surprising honorees, such as JCPenney and Dippin’ Dots.

Coca-Cola took the premiere spot beating 49 other national and international brands.

The Big Money Facebook 50 list:

1. Coca-Cola /> 2. Starbucks /> 3. Disney /> 4. Victoria’s Secret /> 5. Apple iTunes /> 6. Vitaminwater /> 7. YouTube /> 8. Chick-fil-A /> 9. Red Bull /> 10. T.G.I. Friday’s /> 11. Skittles /> 12. Dunkin’ Donuts /> 13. Best Buy /> 14. NBA /> 15. Adidas Originals /> 16. Kellog’s Pop Tarts /> 17. Krispy Kreme /> 18. Mountain Dew /> 19. JCPenney /> 20. Papa John’s /> 21. Disney/Pixar /> 22. National Geographic /> 23. McDonalds /> 24. H&M /> 25. Gap /> 26. Reese’s /> 27. Dippin’ Dots /> 28. Kohl’s /> 29. Forever 21 /> 30. Ben & Jerry’s /> 31. Puma /> 32. Louis Vuitton /> 33. CNN /> 34. Pringles /> 35. Pizza Hut /> 36. Vogue /> 37. Apple Students /> 38. Dr. Pepper /> 39. Vans /> 40. Six Flags /> 41. MTV /> 42. Harley-Davidson /> 43. Target /> 44. Audi /> 45. Gatorade /> 46. Zara /> 47. Taco Bell /> 48. Buffalo Wild Wings /> 49. Calvin Klein /> 50. The Onion

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One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama’s admission: “I have never used Twitter”.

Obama casually divulged this while answering a question about the Great Firewall of China in this historic town meeting between the US president and Chinese students, which was livestreamed by the White House, with a discussion on Facebook via Facebook Connect.

The US president’s official @BarackObama account is one of the most popular on Twitter, with over 2.6 million followers. People have, of course, assumed that a staff member must be doing the posting, but still it’s somewhat surprising that Obama, who has been savvy in using New Media for his campaign and presidency, has not even tried using this social-networking tool.

Obama explained that his thumbs are “too clumsy”, while stressing his firm belief in advocating the use of technology and not restricting Internet access–a pronouncement aimed at the Great Firewall of China, which refers to the Chinese Government’s censorship and filtering of Internet sites.

In fact, Facebook is one of the Web sites blocked in China, making it ironic that the White House live video stream was making use of Facebook Connect. Or perhaps that was part of the plan? Were Chinese Netizens even able to watch the live video stream–was it being streamed by Chinese media, or were they able to use proxies?

Earlier in his speech, Obama noted that China is now the world’s biggest Internet user, which is why they were “pleased to include the Internet in today’s event”. He told the audience that the townhall meeting is a cherished tradition in the US, and thanked the Chinese students for this opportunity to talk to them, and, more importantly, hear their questions.

This is Obama’s first visit to China, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the US and China. He expressed the desire to meet with China’s youth whom he referred to as “China’s future”.

I don’t know how freely the students were allowed to ask their questions, but at the very least, this livestreamed townhall meeting, with questions posted on the site, was symbolic of the role that technology is playing in creating an interconnected world, one in which powerful nations like the US and China must learn to cooperate and co-exist.

It may sound naive, but Obama expressed the hope that the US youth will be his nation’s best ambassadors to China, and that the Chinese youth will in turn be China’s. He talked of the common aspirations and shared values of the youth, and the need for both nations to understand each other’s culture.

Perhaps, through the youth, through the Web, the US, China and every other nation could learn to accept that we are all interconnected.

Perhaps, through their eyes, we may be able to shed our cynicism and forget the sins of the past, and look excitedly toward the future.

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Many of the notifications from Facebook come to us to the mail, and to answer them necessary we must enter the social network, what sometimes can look like to us something annoying.

Well, Facebook is proving a new characteristic that he will allow to answer to the threads of the comments just answering to the mail that should come to us, without having to happen for the popular social network.

Although at the moment Facebook has not facilitated any more information, several persons in Twitter are mentioning that they enjoy already this innovation, therefore as it always happens it seems that some punctual users have been chosen to begin proving this new function.

The new characteristic will be implemented to the rest of the users in a few weeks.

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