Connecting with Facebook
I wanted to share some work we’re doing around Facebook Connect. After a few weeks of tinkering and testing, we now support Facebook Connect on the KickApps platform. At the moment, what this means is that anyone using KickApps can allow their members to let their Facebook friends know when they’ve left a comment on a video, photo, blog or audio post on a KickApps powered website.
For your members, this is a very cool way to share their interests with their Facebook friends. For site owners, this becomes a very powerful feature that can drive traffic from your members’ Facebook social graph.
Here’s what it looks like. This is a member uploaded photo on I AM A RANGER, the New York Rangers’ fan site. Once a member logs in, they can choose to let their Facebook friends know that they’ve commented on the photo by checking the box. Once they do, they’re asked to log into their Facebook account and the box shown below appears.
A note then appears on the member’s Facebook wall and newsfeed. All their friends can see that they’ve left a comment and have an option to ‘Check it out!’ thus driving traffic back to the site.
We’re a few short weeks away from having a complete, self service approach to enabling this across the platform where it’ll be extremely easy for anyone to do this. I’ll update you shortly about when this is ready to go from the Affiliate Center, in the meantime, contact us if you have an urgent need for this and our Client Solutions group can work with you on implementing a solution.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Nice work guys! This will be a great feature and should really lower barrier to adoption.
February 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Hi, sorry if do not get it, but this functionality is for sites hosted by you ?
February 25th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
@JoSe — Yes, this is on KickApps hosted pages.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
I would love to be able to post a kickapps video ON TO Facebook, but too bad this is BROKEN and THAT doesnt even work anymore.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:24 am
@Xavier K — Sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with that. Can you please email support@kickapps.com to discuss your specific issues.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
One question, can i build a social website with KickApps and allow the users log in with their Facebook identity using Facebook Connect. I need to build a huge social website but i need to avoid the registration of the users. I want the users use thier Facebook identity (or OpenId or similar). Is it possbile?
Thanks.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@greenties — We’re working on a deeper level of integration with Facebook Connect and OpenID registration. I don’t want to give it all away right now (sorry…). Stay tuned to this blog and all shall be revealed shortly.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
This sounds great. What about myspace? Facebook and myspace are a must. greenties is on to something logging on with Facebbook connect would be very helpful!
March 25th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
This is great news. I love how a lot of communities like this interact. It ignites the beauty of people power on the net.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Is this in the works yet. I need it for my site, Stear me there please, thanks, Pam
March 30th, 2009 at 10:36 am
@Coiffure — We just released this with KickApps 4.0 today! Check out http://www.kickdeveloper.com for details.