Around the summer of ‘09 we saw a distinct rise in the number of companies and startups that were building products which utilize the Facebook social graph. Facebook Connect became a distinct trend as more and more sites such as Thread and The Huffington Post began using this technology for both integral and ancillary purposes.

Facebook Connect statistics - from builtwith.com

You can see from this chart (represented here).

Currently almost 5.5% of website are utilizing Facebook Connect, and it seems this trend will continue to keep growing. In another 10 months we might see 1 our of every 10 websites using Facebook Connect if this level of growth continues!

SignalFive has developed a number of Facebook Connect-enabled web and iPhone applications… It was about time we added that functionality to our blog, so here it is.

Readers who’d like to comment on blog posts are now able to log in using their Facebook credentials!