I integrated Facebook Connect to this blog using a plugin Javier Reyes wrote and a lot of tweaking. It was actually the main mission whilst creating this new blog. What it primarily does is “enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site” as they state on their site. Using a limited set of code, it allows you to integrate a Facebook Connect button. When a user clicks the button he can link his Facebook account (and all the data he has entered there) to your website. But there is more too it than that:
- Seamlessly “connect” the Facebook account and information with your site
- Connect and find friends who also use your site or invite those we don’t know about it yet
- Share actions on your site with Facebook friends by posting newsfeed stories
Off course, all of this with the privacy settings you use on Facebook. Meaning that you have to set permissions for being contacted by the site owner or that you have to permit me to post the fact you commented on this site manually.
Yet, this offers many possibilities for smaller and larger site owners. Facebook has over 1,6 million users in Belgium and over 140 million worldwide, making it the largest and best spread social network on earth (note: for the moment, Netlog remains the n° 1 network in Belgium with 2,5 million accounts approximately).
Connecting to a site (and by doing so, giving away your gender, name, location, hobbies, interests and so on) is easier than ever before. One click (or actually two, since you have to hit that ‘allow’ button once as well) makes this a breeze. And requiring extended access (an optin for instance to send regular updates) is even easier. A small text appears in the side column once you connected to this site and remains there until you granted access to receive updates. And that is - once more - not more difficult than clicking one single button.
Another big advantage is the viral aspects Facebook Connect opens by tapping into the Facebook site. Inviting your Facebook friends to a site is easier than
typing in email addresses you can hardly remember, right? The invite box you will see is the same one you use when inviting friends to other applications within the Facebook website.
And - it’s not over yet - every time you post a comment on this blog, I kindly ask you if you want to share this info on your newsfeed. Because every time you do so, all of your friends will be notified that you wrote something on my blog.
Clicking the button above, results in a newsfeed entry like the one below.
I even managed to get the community aspects working, meaning that I can show you - once connected - who of your Facebook friends are also connected to this site. You have an immediate overview of what they commented on, enabling you to see what they are interested in. You can even click and see their profile or contact them (or any other member) directly using Facebook Inbox.
At Proximity BBDO we are currently using Facebook Connect in several projects. More about that as soon as they see the light…
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nice. en welke info heb je nu van de ingelogden?
Facebook connect is echt wel iets cool. Is wel wat knoeien geweest met Wordpress, maar ‘t werkt nu wel… bewijze is deze newsfeed post :-)
hello,
i like the design and layout of your website, well done. i am new to web development and i
am just now exploring the possibility of adding messaging to my own website. i have
looked into the facebook connect options, but i’m not sure it will accomplish my goal.
do you have any recommendations? i want the users on my site, whom in many cases are
not ‘friends’ with one another, to be able to send each other messages (very similar to
facebook’s inbox message system).
any help would be great, my email is brad@shareyourdiscount.com.
thank you!
your site look awesome .. i try to integrate it in my site but the /?fbconnect_action=invite part didn’t work for me .. how did you get it working .. please help .. thankx
Hi! Great job… I just integrated Facebook Connect in my Movable type site, I also set it up with the new FB Comment box…. I came to your site and saw you have the perfect integration with your comment box and P”Publish this comment to Facebook”… it would be great if you would tell me how you did that!!! You would save me a lot of stress!
Thank you :-)
cool!!
Well done.
I tried to integrate the fbconnect plugin to my blog, but i can make the “Publish this comment to Facebook” feature to work, can you write some kind of tutorial on how to do it? thanks!
test
really cool
gr8
Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!
I’m Out! :)