I found a nice post at TechCrunch on building an engaging Facebook fan page. Has some great tips and the comments have a couple good suggestions as well. Worth reading for anyone interested in having such a page. We are getting ready to build one of our own, so this will come in handy.
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Google’s Friend Connect is now open to all web sites. The post I’ve linked to then asks the question – who will control on-line identity? and frames the answer in a competition between Facebook Connect and OpenID.
I’ve got a feeling both will be coexisting for a while. My tendency is to favor open over closed – yet I can’t ignore the behemoth that is facebook. We’ll see what happens.
On a related note, I pulled the first Facebook Connect plugin that I had tried. Didn’t care for the way it was layed out or looked. I’ll be trying the second soon. Maybe this next week.
I’ve installed the plugin from sociable – and that should be pretty obvious on the front page of the blog. I’ve just tested it a bit, but it seems to not refresh when I log in, but if I click on a story to comment, I am logged in. The graphics don’t fit the width of my sidebar. This is a touch of a problem – and I’ll poke around later to see what I need to do to fix that. Hopefully I can just resize the image in gimp. It took me a few minutes to install and get it working. Pretty straightforward with lots of explanations, including a video, over at the Sociable site
Facebook Connect enables integration between external sites and facebook. What this means is that many of you who already have blogs outside facebook can now use Facebook Connect to bring Facebook to your blog and your blog back to Facebook. This includes Identity, Friends, Discovery and Privacy. There is already a Facebook Connect plugin directory with plugins for Moveable Type and WordPress; blog widgets for JS-Kit, Disqus, NetworkedBlogs, and RPX as well as a plugin for MediaWiki. I am sure there will be more to come in the future. I’m checking out the WP plugins right now – going to have to see what this brings me.
