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Facebook ConnectFuture Universal Login?
Getting tired in form registration?
One Time Registration for All Sites
A Universal Identity
Open ID
MySpace ID
Google ID
Facebook Connect
Who will become the winner?
What Exactly is FB Connect?
• Integrate Facebook Platform to your site.
• Seamlessly "connect" users’ Facebook account and information with your site.
• Connect and find users’ friends who also use your site.
• Share information and actions on your site with users’ friends on Facebook.
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What Can We Get From FB Connect?
• FB Connect is in coherence with FB privacy.
• FB Connect use the same FB API that previously used by FB applications.
• Publish to FB status feed, giving viral effect.
• Comment integration. (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=198)
• Photo Sharing. Currently used for iLife’09. (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=188)
What Can We Get From FB Connect?
• External sites may retrieve these data:– User’s avatar, full name, user’s friends who are
also connected.– Invitation to user’s friends.– User’s photos, events, groups.– Comment box.
• External sites may not retrieve these data:– User’s detailed demographic.– User’s email address.
FB Connect with Sites
• There are several plugins for CMS:– Movable Type (
http://plugins.movabletype.org/facebook-connect-commenters/) – Wordpress (http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/) – Drupal – on development (http://www.drupalforfacebook.org/ )
– Joomla (
http://www.cmsmarket.com/extensions-directory/listings/Social+Networking/Community/JFBConnect)
– MediaWiki (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_Plugin_for_MediaWiki)
– VBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198499)
FB Connect with Widgets
• There are several social media apps that utilize FB Connect:– JS-Kit (
http://blog.js-kit.com/2008/12/16/js-kit-wraps-up-the-year-with-killer-new-features/)
– Disqus (http://blog.disqus.net/2008/12/16/disqus-and-facebook-connect/)
• Widget developer for 3rd party sites may not contact Facebook directly.
• Flex AS3 class for FB Connect – on development (http://github.com/pierot/fbflashbridge/tree/master)
Setting Up - Facebook
http://developers.facebook.com/
Setting Up - Facebook
Setting Up - Facebook
Setting Up – Server Files
• Cross domain policy file (xd_receiver.htm)<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><body><script
src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/XdCommReceiver.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>
Setting Up – Server Files
• File to connect to Facebook (for ex: index.php)– Header:
<html xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
– Footer:<script src='http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> FB_RequireFeatures(["XFBML"], function(){FB.Facebook.init(“API Key", “[domain]/xd_receiver.htm");});</script>
Setting Up – Server Files
• In index.php, you can write any XFBML tags (Facebook Markup Language for external sites).
• More info: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/XFBML
• Demo:http://media-ide.bajingloncat.com/testfacebookconnect/
test.php
Facebook Connect Installation for Wordpress
How To?
• Download Sociable latest version plugin. (http://www.e-aula.com/download/fbconnect_1_2_1.zip)
• Copy to your /wp-content/plugins.• Activate plugin.• Facebook Connector setting.• Register a Facebook Developer
account. (http://www.facebook.com/developers/)
Setting Up
Setting Up
Setting Up
Theming
• Copy all these files from /wp-content/plugins/fbconnect to your theme files, ex: /wp-content/themes/[your theme]/– myhome.php– userprofile.php– usercomments.php– fbconnect_widget.php– community.php– invitefriends.php– fbconnect.css
• CSS and XHTML them up!!
myhome.php
userprofile.php
usercomments.php
fbconnect_widget.php
community.php
invitefriends.php
Facebook Connect Ideas
FB Connect Ideas For You
• Make your personal blogs more social.• Microblogging with FB Connect.• Brand microsite.• Hotspot WiFi login.• FB Connect & Google Maps (realty,
classified, neighborhood chat).• Online games with FB Connect.• Live chat.• iPhone Facebook Connect.• Etc.
http://www.temenku.com
http://www.woopets.com
http://www.bewareofthedoghouse.com
http://www.perfectintimacy.com
Thank You
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