Tonight, Watch the Oscars With Your Facebook Friends Around the Web
Building on the success of its Live Feed integration with CNN during President Obama’s inauguration ceremony last November, Facebook is partnering with 10 entertainment sites around the world for a simultaneous Live Feed integration during tonight’s Oscar ceremonies.
With the Live Feed integrations, Facebook users will be able to login to their Facebook account through Facebook Connect on the partner sites and share status updates while watching the Oscars. Just like during the inauguration, users will be able to see everyone’s updates or just their friends’.
Facebook has been increasingly partnering with media companies to integrate its Live Feed widget into their site in recent weeks. Last weekend, Facebook partnered with TNT for the NBA All Star Game. Tonight’s participating sites include:
All the Live Feeds during tonight’s broadcast are connected to each other as well as Facebook – so users on any one site will be able to see updates from all of the others combined.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:56 am
[...] of Live Feed integrations that Facebook has run in the last few weeks. This weekend, Facebook partnered with several entertainment sites to integrate the Live Feed during the Oscars, and last weekend, it partnered with Turner’s TNT around the NBA All Star [...]
April 9th, 2009 at 11:11 am
[...] February, 10 entertainment sites (including CBS’s The Insider) partnered with Facebook so users could post status updates to participating sites about their thoughts on the Academy [...]