Brian Solis at PR2.0 talking about Facebook widgets.
Facebook Connect is connecting people across the social graph to fresh content and furthermore it’s channeling outside Web events into individual lifestreams. Essentially, Facebook is solidifying its position as not only your primary social network, it’s also a emerging as a central hub for your attention, updates, news, promotion, and enlightenment.
Nobody wants to update their dating profile, it’s all about set it and forget it. Facebook will let you export some of your activity stream to other websites. Set your privacy levels appropriately and let your activity stream be your dating profile.
If Facebook isn’t going to implement dating any time soon, dating sites can at least make their static/stale/boring profiles more appealing with member’s Facebook data.
Let people import their Flickr photos, Facebook info, etc. Get out of the way and let people express themselves however they want.
This is straightforward to implement and has a potentially huge upside. I know dating sites are going to complain about issues like “we want to own the data” and “changing profiles are difficult” but this is 2009 and the web is not about owning, it’s about creating and sharing and evolving. This could be a great way to differentiate your dating site from other 500 sites you compete with.
