Nintendo has announced that it will integrate its DSi system with Facebook photos, at the E# Expo in Los Angeles today. The announcement comes a day after Microsoft Xbox Live announced its own integration with Facebook Connect, enabling the ability to share gaming updates through your Facebook news feed.

For Nintendo, photo integration means that photos taken with the system’s built in camera and interactive lenses will load directly to Facebook. The integration leverages Facebook Connect, and will be launched later on this summer with the Nintendo DSi system update.
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Days after announcing compatibility with Apple’s platform, Facebook’s Connect platform is surely expecting to see a number of applications taking advantage of the new cross-platform opportunities. fbFund winner Kontagent is one of those companies. The social analytics platform is launching its private beta program which looks at metrics pertaining to iPhone and Facebook Connect applications.
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Posterous launched as a simplified blogging process for users that want to stream a wide array of media to the web. Simplicity is key to its design as well as its submission process, lowering the barriers to entry by enabling users to update their Posterous blog by emailing text or media to the Posterous service.

The blogging platform is extending this simplistic view of sharing content by integrating with Facebook Connect. You can now update your Facebook wall by emailing content to Posterous. You can also post Facebook photos directly from Posterous, which will appear on both your Posterous blog as well as your Facebook Photo Galleries. Posting more than 5 photos will create a separate album with the email subject being the album title. Video support for a similar feature is currently being developed by Posterous.
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NutshellMail is one of those services that might be hard to wrap your head around, either because it’s concept seems unfeasible or just otherwise too good to be true. So what’s it do?

NutshellMail lets you sneak around your company’s firewalls in order to receive your emails. It does so by “forwarding” your emails to you from its centralized system, giving you access to your blocked emails from a service that’s accepted by your company. Assuming the security risks are the only reason why your boss won’t let you check your email at work, NutshellMail is a viable option for many working in corporate America.
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Over the past few months I have been tracking the progression of Facebook Connect sites including what sites are implementing them as well as what creative widgets are being developed. Occasionally I even speak about the business proposition presented by Facebook Connect and how it compares to services such as Twitter. Over the past few days I’ve spoken with Facebook who has cleared up a few misunderstandings I had about the service.

Given that I didn’t completely understand everything, I can only imagine that there are numerous developers, business owners, and others who are not clear about what you can and cannot do with Facebook Connect. With a complete understanding of the service, I’ve decided to outline a list of the best practices for any company deciding to implement Facebook Connect.
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TurnTo launched late last year as a social shopping service, alerting you when you come across shopping sites that your friends have already been to, as well as what items they purchased. The service is now looking to integrate deeper with existing social sites like Facebook for enhanced utility, bulking up its feature set to improve on ease of use and tap into larger networks that you already have across the web.

As TurnTo already stands, you can add connections based on the contacts from various email accounts, Facebook, and AOL instant messenger. Most recently, TurnTo added the ability for raves (reviews) to be posted through your Facebook account and shared with friends. If you’d like a more local approach, you can also type in your zip code to see what type of shopping patterns exist on a local level. From within your TurnTo account you can see what products other users are raving about, check out some of the sites others are frequenting, or just keep track of ongoing activity within your social circle that you’ve imported into TurnTo.
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Veteran online local search service Citysearch has finally revealed its redesigned site, which is currently in beta testing but will eventually become the new face of Citysearch. The site has received a near-complete overhaul, shifting the focus to become more social and hopefully more relevant to end users.

Taking cues from the majority of relative newcomers in the field, such as Yelp, Citysearch has begun to do things like look to users for more content contribution (i.e. reviews, votes), as well as an improved mobile interface for additional accessibility on the go.  The mobile aspect of Citysearch is important for the ongoing upgrades for better localized content. 
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