Facebook Connect mashes with Digg

Facebook Connect launched it’s mashup with Digg today in yet another brilliant move by the facebook staff. Facebook members can now log into the popular social news site using their Facebook logins if they are not already members of Digg. If they are members, they can simply connect their two accounts.

To say it in practical terms, Facebook Connect is what could be compared to a virtual European Union. Several entities are providing the capability for users to streamline various media outlets and sites via Facebook as a platform.

What does this mean to you? If you’re not familiar with Digg, I suggest you vist their site here. For those already familar, it will place what your friends have dugg into their news feed for you to see.

If your feed is anything like mine, there are tons of news links posted everyday that I have to sort through, deciding what’s worth clicking and what isn’t.  With this new feature, I’ll now be able to see what news pieces are popular amongst my friends, giving at least some indication of my level of desire to actually click through to the new post.

Facebook Connect also partnered with a few other sites, such as tech crunch and joost.