Fublo is a digital agency based in London, UK. We are WordPress specialists. You are reading news about our business and small group of blogs
Fublo is a digital agency based in London, UK. We are WordPress specialists. You are reading news about our business and small group of blogs
So, Facebook have decided to ditch “Connect” and go with “Open Graph”
Facebook Connect, the company’s tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more.
During a press conference today at Facebook’s F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand would be eliminated as part of the launch of Open Graph. Instead, the company is standardizing the interactions between Facebook and third parties via Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol and the OAuth 2.0 standard.
We’ve just installed a WP plugin on UK Street Art, Fat Seagull and Friedmylittlebrain as a test to see if people “liking” things will increase the traffic coming through to the sites.
Having seen one click on a post to share it back into Facebook, we’ve got high hopes that this will increase traffic, not massively, but will be interesting to see how many more page views this generates. What do you think?
Also, here’s an interesting piece on “How Facebook won the web”
Mark works primarily in design and front end development. His career includes work with a varied client base – from large companies like Time Out and Hilton International, to charities like The Stephen Lawrence Foundation.