Facebook Connect Presentation 08 10 2008

An introduction to Facebook Connect London Facebook Developer Garage, October 8 th 2008

Facebook Connect - Introduction ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect - Introduction ,[object Object],Two different methods for login, in this implementation

Facebook Connect - Introduction ,[object Object],A Facebook styled dialogue box lets the user know what’s going on

Facebook Connect - Introduction

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],This loads in the JavaScript library which renders the login button

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Now we’ve got the library loaded, we need to tell it the features we need. In this case: XFBML covers it. As a parameter to loading the library, we pass a function we want to run once we know it’s loaded

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],We initialise the connection with our application’s public API key and a relative path to the cross-domain receiver file (which Facebook provides)

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Now we wait for a session using more of Facebook’s code, and pass another function that we want to run when it’s done

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Now everything’s loaded, we can get a list of the user’s friends from the API with a familiar-looking method call.

Facebook Connect – How it works ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect – Connecting accounts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect – Disadvantages ,[object Object]

Facebook Connect – Disadvantages ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect – Disadvantages ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Facebook Connect – The future ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],See current Facebook Connect implementations at: http://www.somethingtoputhere.com/therunaround http://www.theinsider.com/

Facebook Connect – The future ,[object Object],Karl Bunyan, karl.bunyan@exponetic.com

Facebook Connect Presentation 08 10 2008

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