At the huge Facebook overhaul event in Palo Alto today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a feature that allows users data portability (Hallelujah). One thing that Zuckerberg kept emphasizing during this talk was that although it’s been a key focus over the past couple of years, Facebook Connect is now one of the two pronged ways that people can use Facebook to leave a footprint on the web. He also kept repeating the key stat that it is now being used on over one million websites.
According to registrar Whois, there are 123,309,807 live .com, .net, .org, .info, .bis, and .us domains on the Internet currently, so we’re guestimating the service is now integrated on less than 1% of all top level domains.
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for...
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