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Being Open and connected is the norm today. Services like Open-ID, Facebook Connect etc are trying to bring upon users to a single sign in platform for the social web. And today we see that how Facebook’s own platform is ready to expand the user base of the the social networking leader.

Launched in May FB connect enables users to share their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites, to share profile photos, names, photo albums, friends, groups, events, and other information The New York Times, highlight’s some of the expansion plans for Facebook Connect.

In the next few weeks, a number of prominent Web sites will weave this service into their pages, including those of the Discovery Channel and The San Francisco Chronicle, the social news site Digg, the genealogy network Geni, and the online video hub Hulu.

Doing such major partnering with these websites would definitely give a major push to the social networking behemoth and indeed give it a much needed edge over rival Myspace.

What do you think about this move by FB?