Facebook invades your blog, rest of Web with new Comment Box - Ars Technica

Fri, Feb 20th, 2009

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Continuing its march to Google's beat, Facebook has taken another major step towards dominating both the social Web and your blog with its first social widget, called the Comment Box. Built on Facebook Connect, this easily embeddable box turns Facebook into a hosted comment system, and it brings some interesting conversational features to the mix.

Detailed on the Facebook Developers blog and wiki, the company's new Comment Box allows any website or blog owner to use Facebook for their comment system. A snippet of code can be added to static pages, or CMSes like Movable Type and WordPress via plug-ins, to embed the Comment Box. Whether visitors have a Facebook account or not, the box allows them to comment, and admin controls are provided to weed out the inevitable spam.

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