Facebook Connect
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Welcome to Facebook Connect
Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform -- enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site.
As a developer, you can add social context to your site in four main ways:
- Identity. Seamlessly connect the user's Facebook account and information with your site
- Friends. Bring a user's Facebook friends into your site. You can link friends that have existing accounts and even invite new friends to your site.
- Social Distribution. Publish information back into their friends' Streams on Facebook.
- Privacy. Bring dynamic privacy to your site using XFBML.
Additionally, Facebook Connect brings the full power and flexibility of Facebook Platform, including the REST API and FQL.
Read the Getting Started Guide to get started developing right away.
What's New on Facebook Connect?
- Build apps for Facebook Connect for iPhone.
- Add a Comments Box to your site to quickly let your users comment and publish back on Facebook.
Why Should I Use Facebook Connect?
- One-click login: Allow users to log in with their Facebook identity and allow your site to access their Facebook profile information.
- Increased engagement: Leverage users' personal interests to show more relevant information and surface personalized content from friends such as reviews or comments.
- New forms of distribution: Users can share content and actions taken on your site with friends back on Facebook through Feed, invites, and other social communication channels on Facebook.
- Access to Facebook Platform: Use the same APIs that have allowed more than 670,000 developers to build more than 52,000 engaging applications for Facebook users since May 2007.
Early results have shown that sites using Facebook Connect for login have seen as many as 2 out of 3 new registrations come via Facebook Connect, and those users have about 50% more engagement on sites.
Where Should I Start?
- Read more about Facebook Connect.
- Check out our live demo site -- http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/therunaround -- to see Facebook Connect in action. (You can download the source code or pull it from our public SVN repository.)
- Check out some of the sites that are already live as examples.
- Follow the Getting Started Guide and start building this into your website!
- Make sure your site adheres to Facebook Connect Policies.
- Launch your site!
Want to Integrate Facebook Connect into Your Blog or Site?
Check out the Facebook Connect Plugin Directory for Movable Type, WordPress, and other plugins.
