February 10, 2009

Facebook Connect in schmedley

JR

On November 30, 2008, Facebook released Facebook Connect, its newest social integration tool, to developers. Facebook Connect allows programmers to insert Facebook users’ information into their webpages, such as: name, basic profile information, profile picture, friends, photos, events, groups, and more. Websites that offer this integration will sport this snazzy little button supplied by Facebook…

We were integrating Facebook data into our Facebook schmidget in schmedley long before this, but the release of Facebook Connect made our job a whole lot easier. When it was first announced, we jumped right in – schmedley was one of the first websites using this technology – We were granted special access to the Facebook Connect API before it was “whitelisted” and released to the general (developer) public.

Some other companies/websites currently using this technology include: TechCrunch, CNET, Red Bull, Netvibes, Brightkite, Vimeo, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and CNN’s “The Forum.”

The schmedley Facebook schmidget uses this technology in three ways:

1 – All of your friends’ most recent status updates are in the main body of the schmidget…

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2 – Your entire friends list is in the slide-out drawer to the right…

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* Both of these areas above link directly to your friends’ pages

3 – Post status updates to your profile from the bottom drawer… 

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Facebook Connect is also integrated with our new page creation and publishing tools…

When you’re about to publish your new creation, one button click posts a link to your page to your Facebook status, so everyone can see what you’ve been up to on schmedley.

 
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