Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Connect’

New design with FBConnect

Posted by tom.altman on January 31st, 2009
Facebook Connect Developer Garage
Image by joeywan via Flickr

The new design was implemented last night, then – I had to get Facebook Connect working.  I chose use the “official” one from the Facebook developers.  It is a bit more difficult to integrate -but I like the look slightly better. It requires you to dig into the code.

My buddy Jason was having some issues with my Facebook Connect working on his machine, but it the “fix” may have been to have him put a comment.  After he did that, it was good to go, so hopefully, those will go away.  :)

I’m excited to move on, I think there are some very cool things we can do with this type of connection.  Although I’m not really a huge fan of letting Facebook control it all – the proof-of-concept is in the pudding…it works and it is slick.

If you’ve pushed Connect further on you’re blog, let me know, it would be great to join forces on a project.

Related articles by Zemanta
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted in Featured Post, community, new media, wordpress, wordpress plugin Tags: , , , Comments Off

"green" is so 2008

Posted by tom.altman on January 30th, 2009

tomaltman.com from 2008

When it comes to my old wordpress theme anyway!  I was getting antsy on changing themes about 2 months ago and thought I’d better wait until the new year…then jump off.

I snagged this one(ShinRa of the Sun 1.3 by ShinRa), I’m sure you’ve seen it around – but I wanted something with 3 columns and likes the color.  I really wanted the extra real estate to work with some plugins.  So we’ll see what I can find there.

I liked the simiplicty of the old theme (Blueprint Theme), but the column was a bit narrow and so I ended up with ShiaRa.

I really like the All In One Video plugin I had before, and I think it may look better int he new theme.  This is a cool plugin which allows you to searcha nd place video in your blog, to record video and put it in your blog and allow visitors to leave video comments too.  Check it out, very cool.

Well, I’d better check out the theme – I need to copy over the Facebook Connect code.

Related articles by Zemanta
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted in Featured Post, innovation, wordpress, wordpress plugin Tags: , , , , 1 Comment »

Will OpenID Lose to Facebook Connect?

Posted by tom.altman on December 3rd, 2008

Facebook, Inc.

Great post at Social Media Times about Facebook Connect:

It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the challenges facing OpenID and I have to say the battle between Facebook and the open standards community is about to get pretty fierce.

I really think it might – not because Facebook is “better” – but it is really hard to explain OpenID, ecpesically to non-technical people.  Sometimes, after you get done – it is the first time they realize how much information a particular site may know about them.  It’s scares them.

If you have not seen Facebook Connect – check out theinsider.com or techcrunch.com

Related articles by Zemanta
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted in community, innovation Tags: , , , 3 Comments »
Twitter Delicious Facebook Stumbleupon