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...the Facebook & Myspace (particularly Facebook) platforms are quietly producing apps and developers with impressive usage numbers. - David Swain

Digg and Facebook Connect in action. - David Swain

Since November, Facebook members have been able to sign in to Citysearch using their Facebook log-ins via Facebook Connect. Then, their friends’ favorite restaurants and bars show up at the top of their Citysearch listings and they can publish their reviews to Facebook. - David Swain

Great story by veteran tech reporter Larry Magid. Larry's a noted online child safety advocate, founding SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com. He is also co-director of ConnectSafely.org, on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise and Family Online Safety Institute. - David Swain

amazing photos of Jan 20, 2009. - David Swain

Apple also branched out a little more into the social web by incorporating Facebook updates when you publish changes to your site. Pen a new blog post or create a new photo gallery page? You can link each individual iWeb site to your Facebook profile via Facebook Connect, and updates will be automatically be posted to Facebook with convenient links. - David Swain

NPR's All Songs Considered is the best. Free live concerts as podcasts. I'm a fan. - David Swain

Twitter didn't choose Google. Google just picked up Twitter's API. In fact, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tells us: "We're working on our Facebook Connect integration right now—we're excited to participate in both." - David Swain

"It is an ingenious stab at solving several nagging problems at once." - David Swain

"It is an ingenious stab at solving several nagging problems at once." - David Swain

great story - David Swain

great story - David Swain

Login to Citysearch with your Facebook account and start reviewing! - David Swain

Login to Citysearch with your Facebook account and start reviewing! - David Swain

Overall, Citysearch is taking some big steps in the right direction. Facebook Connect is going to be huge for the site. With the turn of a switch, it now has social features it would have been nearly impossible to build on its own. Who wantsto become someone else’s friend on Citysearch? But if you can find your existing friends there, that is one more reason to use it. - David Swain

Oliver's first and favorite song! Thanks to Grandpa Swain. Rawhide! - David Swain

Oliver's first and favorite song! Thanks to Grandpa Swain. Rawhide! - David Swain

Watch your favorite shows directly on Facebook by adding the Watercooler applications. - David Swain

An in-depth look at 10 of the 25 fbFund recipients. - David Swain

Looks at what Bevy, Street Football, Causes and Watercooler have been able to do with the new Facebook site design and integration points. - David Swain

Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever looks at FBML vs iframe canvas pages for Facebook apps. - David Swain

Cool new Facebook voting apps by Burger King. Great to see people getting involved! - David Swain

Yes, both people and companies of all types as well - that's encouraging. - Svetlana Gladkova

Playfish's fourth application makes it to #12 in its first month! - David Swain

“The first iteration of the Web was all about information—you were excited just to put a Web page up, and it was hard to understand who the people were who were interacting with all those pages..." - David Swain

So I'm leaving to write a book. Why, you may ask, have I chosen to devote it to Facebook? I believe the social network is likely to have a significant impact on the way we live. - David Swain

So I'm leaving to write a book. Why, you may ask, have I chosen to devote it to Facebook? I believe the social network is likely to have a significant impact on the way we live. - David Swain

Facebook developer gets funding for social apps. - David Swain

Facebook developer gets funding for social apps. - David Swain

A quartet of Facebook's platform team took the stage on Wednesday morning at the Graphing Social Patterns: East conference, for a discussion led by conference organizer Dave McClure about what's next for the social network's developer initiative. - David Swain

A quartet of Facebook's platform team took the stage on Wednesday morning at the Graphing Social Patterns: East conference, for a discussion led by conference organizer Dave McClure about what's next for the social network's developer initiative. - David Swain