After its first success story, Spotify responded not by rewarding consumers but by forcing new users to sign in with Facebook.
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Users who sign in with Facebook Connect will instantly see music recommendations based on both personal listening habits and the artist "likes" of a listener and their friends on Facebook.
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GetGlue's guide will use Facebook's Connect feature, which lets people sign in with their Facebook identities to websites.
Nissen gets access to this info for those customers who choose to sign in using their Facebook or Twitter account.
News websites and apps will ask readers to sign in with their Facebook accounts so that they can send info to the social network about every article they read.
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For another thief in Chicago, who accidentally left his phone ( as well as his jacket and shoes) behind at the scene of his liquor-stealing crime, his automatic sign-in to his Facebook account from his phone was part of his undoing.
Known initially as Facebook Connect, the service appears as a "login with Facebook" button on many sites and allows users to quickly sign in to those sites using their Facebook credentials.
In early 2010, the site added user accounts and pro accounts, and later the ability to sign in through Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo accounts.
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Facebook re-branded the technology behind Beacon as an opt-in service called Facebook Connect in fall 2008 and launched it as a tool that allows Facebook users to sign into third-party sites using their Facebook IDs.
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Spotify recently announced that new users must have an account with Facebook in order to sign up at all.
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Facebook Messenger (for Android) in certain regions now allows people with no Facebook account to sign up for the service with just a name and phone number, without any Facebook account.
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Face Recognition lets each member of the family log in to their Samsung account and automatically sign into Facebook, Twitter and more.
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But take this as a sure sign that Facebook, oft criticized for lagging behind in mobile, is in major course correction mode.
Afroterminal provides a feature which allows members to seamlessly sign in using their other network accounts (such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), to share status updates and other content.
Clicking the Share button allows you to share quickly without having to switch to another app, and you just need to sign in once to use third-party services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo.
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Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
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The company released a stand-alone messaging app in late 2011 and only started allowing people to sign up for a Facebook messenger account with their phone number last year.
In 2008, Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook Connect, allowing users to sign onto other Web sites, gaming systems, and mobile devices with their Facebook account, which serves as a digital passport of sorts.
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These sites allow you to sign up and use them for free, and in some cases check in through your Facebook or Twitter accounts.
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Nonetheless there is a clear sign that as the movie makes its way around the world interest in the inner dealings of Facebook are provoking people to go find out the truth, if they can.
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We will make it possible for people to view and sign our petition to the G20 and we encourage those who believe in our mission to check our Facebook page for more information in the coming weeks.
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Practically, what this all means is that for the first time marketers can speak specifically to those users who they know something about and have already built a relationship with, either on Facebook or through a sign-up at a brick and mortar store, or an opt-in email program, or any other online or offline channel.
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