A day after rival MySpace announced it would let users share their profiles and other personal data across the Web, Facebook said it would do the same in the next several weeks. The new features, called Facebook Connect, were introduced on the company's blog as the next iteration of Facebook's platform for developers building applications to run within the social network. Facebook Connect would make it possible for developers to build applications that connect to Facebook from other Web sites. Facebook users, however, would maintain control over their personal data and would have to agree to share it.
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