La Netscouande, a French internet agency, has released the first version of a Facebook Connect plugin for Drupal. I have a feeling that this is going to obtain a lot of traction. This is one of the first content platforms aside from Wordpress that has an easy to use Connect module. As far as I can tell it enables basic login/authorization capabilities via the module.
With this announcement, the number of Facebook Connect implementations will most definitely jump over the coming weeks. Drupal is one of the most popular open-source content management systems on the web. While I’ve developed Drupal sites in the past, I haven’t had the opportunity to implement this service myself so I’m not sure how easy to use it actually is for developers.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Yahoo Lets Developers Help Deliver The Mail
Yahoo made good on its promise to embrace an open-source strategy by rolling out enhancements to Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Toolbar this week, both of which are part of its Yahoo Open Source Strategy. The goal behind the Yahoo Open Source Strategy is to welcome independent developers into the fold while simultaneously positioning Yahoo as something of a social network.
The new and improved Yahoo Mail—which initially is being rolled out to a limited number of users in the U.S. and Australia—embraces social media. It's being billed by the company as a "smarter" mailbox that streamlines information and highlights other friendly Yahoo users' activities.
The company promises that the new version of its e-mail application will "surface messages, information and activity updates from people users care about most, as well as an updated inbox and folder view that filters messages from those personal connections."
The nuts and bolts of the Yahoo Mail include connections where—much like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter— users can connect with friends who use the service and designate their activity as important. The upshot, it seems, is that their activity, messages and updates will be flagged and given priority on the Yahoo Mail homescreen. The types of "activity" that Yahoo will highlight for users include interactions with Yahoo profile updates, Yahoo Buzz and TV, and music and travel selections friends are reading or talking about.
The open-source angle of the Yahoo Open Source Strategy will also come into play on the e-mail homescreen, with the search engine company allowing a limited number of third-party developers to create applications that will live in the Yahoo mail screen. Think Google Labs for Gmail or the App Store for Apple's iPhone. Yahoo hopes that by making its start page less static that users will choose to talk, share and interact with friends on their pages instead of surfing over to an established network like Facebook.
Another prong of Yahoo's Open Source Strategy is the Yahoo Toolbar, which also launched this week. The idea behind the toolbar is to give users immediate access and notifications to things like e-mail alerts, favorite Web sites and instant Web search.
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The new and improved Yahoo Mail—which initially is being rolled out to a limited number of users in the U.S. and Australia—embraces social media. It's being billed by the company as a "smarter" mailbox that streamlines information and highlights other friendly Yahoo users' activities.
The company promises that the new version of its e-mail application will "surface messages, information and activity updates from people users care about most, as well as an updated inbox and folder view that filters messages from those personal connections."
The nuts and bolts of the Yahoo Mail include connections where—much like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter— users can connect with friends who use the service and designate their activity as important. The upshot, it seems, is that their activity, messages and updates will be flagged and given priority on the Yahoo Mail homescreen. The types of "activity" that Yahoo will highlight for users include interactions with Yahoo profile updates, Yahoo Buzz and TV, and music and travel selections friends are reading or talking about.
The open-source angle of the Yahoo Open Source Strategy will also come into play on the e-mail homescreen, with the search engine company allowing a limited number of third-party developers to create applications that will live in the Yahoo mail screen. Think Google Labs for Gmail or the App Store for Apple's iPhone. Yahoo hopes that by making its start page less static that users will choose to talk, share and interact with friends on their pages instead of surfing over to an established network like Facebook.
Another prong of Yahoo's Open Source Strategy is the Yahoo Toolbar, which also launched this week. The idea behind the toolbar is to give users immediate access and notifications to things like e-mail alerts, favorite Web sites and instant Web search.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Facebook and YouTube plug-ins for Windows Live
I've always found it pointless to use Windows Live applications if they don't work together with the online services that I already use. Well, recently released plug-ins are about to change that, and make a lot of people happy in the process. With just a few clicks you can share your photos and videos on Facebook and YouTube. If you're more interested on how the plug-ins were created, you can even take a look at the source code.
LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery beta. The plug-in takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Photo Gallery, meaning tags of your friends in Photo Gallery will also appear on Facebook, assuming you have the same friends there too. You can also add multiple Facebook accounts (great for home computers), and upload your pictures to an existing or new album.
LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in for both Windows Live Photo Gallery beta and Windows Live Movie Maker beta. It works just like the Facebook plug-in, except that it allows you to upload straight to YouTube videos that you're storing in Photo Gallery or that you've just created in Movie Maker.
You can check out more plug-ins (Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, and Drupal) on the Windows Live Photo & Video Blog download page.
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LiveUpload to Facebook is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery beta. The plug-in takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Photo Gallery, meaning tags of your friends in Photo Gallery will also appear on Facebook, assuming you have the same friends there too. You can also add multiple Facebook accounts (great for home computers), and upload your pictures to an existing or new album.
LiveUpload to YouTube is a plug-in for both Windows Live Photo Gallery beta and Windows Live Movie Maker beta. It works just like the Facebook plug-in, except that it allows you to upload straight to YouTube videos that you're storing in Photo Gallery or that you've just created in Movie Maker.
You can check out more plug-ins (Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, and Drupal) on the Windows Live Photo & Video Blog download page.
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