Thursday, March 1, 2012

Video: Ford attends Facebook Hackathon to create The Social Car

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Most of us don't quite understand why we'd want Facebook in our cars, but during a recent Hackathon at Facebook's Palo Alto campus, the Blue Oval and the new Big Blue combined forces to go beyond status updates and photos sharing.

In an effort to make a truly "social" car, devs from Facebook held one of their monthly Hackathons that incorporates some of the social giant's most popular apps into Ford's SYNC system.

The all-nighter bred a handful of integrated apps that allowed you to check-in somewhere as soon as you parked your car, find a restaurant that one of your friends "liked" and even automatically stream songs that your friends have posted on their walls.

You can get a taste of what came out of the event in the video after the jump.

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Ford attends Facebook Hackathon to create The Social Car originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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