Facebook Connect on Web2Ireland
5th of January 2009 by conor
We’ve just turned-on support for Facebook Connect on this blog. It enables you to comment here using your Facebook credentials and also to optionally send your comments from here to your Facebook profile.
To make use of it, simply login to Facebook using the Widget in the right-hand sidebar. Then when you comment on a post, you’ll be doing so as your Facebook identity.
Whilst we remain big fans of standards like OpenID, the simple fact remains that the implementations are non-intuitive, the plugins are flakey and the uptake has been tiny. Connect is instant portable identity for a much bigger demographic.
We were hugely impressed with Dave Morin’s presentation of Connect at Le Web. I hope we can get him over to Ireland at some stage to tell us more. Any chance Ryan will get him over for FOWA Dublin?
Full instructions on enabling Facebook Connect on WordPress Blogs are here.
Tags: dave morin, facebook, facebook connect, le web
6 Responses to “Facebook Connect on Web2Ireland”
Colin Fitzpatrick
January 6th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Excellent work guys, I like this a lot, must get it installed on my own blog. I agree that although Open ID is great in Theory, Facebook’s solution has many advantages.
Conor O'Neill
January 6th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Not seeing comments pushed through from Web2Ireland to Facebook. Trying to get to the bottom of this.
Dave Morin
January 6th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Awesome you guys integrated Facebook Connect! We’re excited to have you on board. Hope to get over to Ireland soon.
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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Conor O'Neill
January 7th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Thanks Guys. Hope we see you at FB HQ in Dublin soon Dave.
David Gilmer
July 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Sounds like a handy little gadget, must try it out on my own blog!