Facebook has announced a proof of concept today that demonstrates their Facebook Connect service in action for comments.
We welcome Facebook’s ability to shine a light on the value of connecting blog comments to Facebook Connect. Of course, JS-Kit comments has had Facebook Connect login for some time now. We also feature OpenID and a commitment to Google Friend Connect, MySpaceID, Yahoo! and others.
Widgets like these from Facebook will be useful to popularize the idea of connecting sites and blogs to the rest of the social web. Once users get the idea, however, they will need a solution that allows multiple login options (Myspace has 80m users, Yahoo has 500m for example), sharing updates with multiple sites (Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Yahoo etc), rich threading and moderation features, look and feel customizations and behavioral options that turn a simple feature into a fully customized social experience for their participants. Just check out the feature grid over on our wiki.
A key requirement for publishers, also, is that their commenting system (or any widgets they plan to use on their site for that matter) do not siphon traffic back to any given destination site. That’s why JS-Kit does not, and will never, maintain its own destination community. Instead, our visitor profiles lead to JavaScript popups that show a user’s information on the publisher’s page. Information that is not just from Facebook, but gathered from all the social platforms in which they participate.
As I posted on the DataPortability blog recently, the key for the emerging social web is a peered, open approach where the tools allow users to control their data and vendors to participate as equals on the grid.
We believe that the web is a heterogeneous environment and that a multi-platform approach that includes all of the major players (Google, FaceBook, Yahoo!, MySpace, OpenID and others yet to emerge) is in the best interest of publishers by providing solutions that cater to all participants – leaving them free to choose the social experiences they enjoy.
Facebook launches proof of concept ( comments)
February 19th, 2009 | Tags: comments, data portability, dataportability, facebook, features, moderation, myspace, openid, threading, yahoo | Posted in LandscapeFacebook has announced a proof of concept today that demonstrates their Facebook Connect service in action for comments.
We welcome Facebook’s ability to shine a light on the value of connecting blog comments to Facebook Connect. Of course, JS-Kit comments has had Facebook Connect login for some time now. We also feature OpenID and a commitment to Google Friend Connect, MySpaceID, Yahoo! and others.
Widgets like these from Facebook will be useful to popularize the idea of connecting sites and blogs to the rest of the social web. Once users get the idea, however, they will need a solution that allows multiple login options (Myspace has 80m users, Yahoo has 500m for example), sharing updates with multiple sites (Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Yahoo etc), rich threading and moderation features, look and feel customizations and behavioral options that turn a simple feature into a fully customized social experience for their participants. Just check out the feature grid over on our wiki.
A key requirement for publishers, also, is that their commenting system (or any widgets they plan to use on their site for that matter) do not siphon traffic back to any given destination site. That’s why JS-Kit does not, and will never, maintain its own destination community. Instead, our visitor profiles lead to JavaScript popups that show a user’s information on the publisher’s page. Information that is not just from Facebook, but gathered from all the social platforms in which they participate.
As I posted on the DataPortability blog recently, the key for the emerging social web is a peered, open approach where the tools allow users to control their data and vendors to participate as equals on the grid.
We believe that the web is a heterogeneous environment and that a multi-platform approach that includes all of the major players (Google, FaceBook, Yahoo!, MySpace, OpenID and others yet to emerge) is in the best interest of publishers by providing solutions that cater to all participants – leaving them free to choose the social experiences they enjoy.