SXSW Live Blogging: Facebook Connect Launched for iPhone

I am live blogging the SXSW Panel with Dave Morin from Facebook, "The search for a more social Web." To see the latest content, please refresh the page until I note that the post has completed.

comments are all from dave morin…

• never been a better time to be working on the web. walks through how we have apparently been social all the way back to the time of cavemen.
• takes us through a history of how we were social – though email, chat, etc
• at facebook we have been trying to map out the most social web over the last few years
• as time has gone on, the graph has changed a little bit
• the graph is becoming much more interesting – we’ve created this better stream of infomration
• the stream is an important concept and a template for the future
• with facebook connect i can connect to more things
• obama is in his stream
• public profiles are all about connecting with people who care about you
• gary vaynerchuk speaks about his new facebook profile – nothing you haven’t heard from him before
• back to dave – you have more control over the stream than ever before – this is the new homepage he is demoing
• all new concept – the publisher – looks exactly the same to me as before
• shows off highlights – which is the right side of the new page and highlights whatever is hot in your network
• now he changes to facebook connect – wants you to take the core facebook experience with you – take the identity with them wherever they go
• six thousand sites using facebook connects – pimps techcrunch says the conversation is more authentic than ever before
• pimps boxee, joost, geni and aardvark which is some social search
• talks about facebook connect for the desktop with xobni and soon iphoto
• loic lemeur talks about seesmic.com/facebook – it’s adobe air – brand new

next steps towards openness

• they are making more apis open than ever before
• embracing openid with chris messina
• they want to take a leadership role in openid
• big commitment to opensource

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT

facebook connect for iphone – basically you can now connect iphone applications to your iphone

• playfish demo – play your games with your facebook friends
• sgn social gaming network – more games – agency wars is their new game – you play against your friends
• tapulous – more games with facebook connect – they wanted to be more social
• urbanspoon – rest. guide – 1 million in their db
• flixster – he cant find anyything he wants to see – but now zip zap if you have an iphone – you can connect to your friends – Movies 2.0 went live today in the app store
• more too – zynga, gary’s game and more coming soon – citizen sports, goodrec and limbo

fbFund – new round of funding for facebook connect and the iphone specifically

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