Announcing Facebook integration at Nostradamical.com
Login and get stated in seconds with Facebook Connect
We’ve added Facebook integration to Nostradamical.com using the wonderful Facebook Connect platform. This means visitors can now login to Nostradamical.com using their existing Facebook login, which is super fast and easy. It also means users can publish their Nostradamical predictions back to their Facebook profiles to share them with Friends.
To login and starting forecasting predictions like, ‘Will California legalize marijuana with bill AB 390?‘ or ‘Will Lindsay Lohan cave and finally strip for Playboy? ‘ just click the ‘Connect with Facebook’ button on our site.
The Facebook Connect platform, launched last year is Facebook’s step into the ’single sign on’ world and competes with OpenID for example, in that users no longer need to setup new accounts and passwords on sites that use Facebook Connect. FB Connect launched in mid 2008.
Making our site open and accessible
So this means our visitors can now login in seconds and start forecasting predictions on world events at Nostradamical.com. So it’s another step towards making our site open and accessible to multiple networks. We also have widgets for display you latest predictions on your site, blog or social networking profile. Oh yeah and we’re also connected into Twitter and Friendfeed.
Facebook-Connect-mania…
Mashable has a good write up on the top 10 best implementations of Facebook Connect at sites like Vimeo, Joost and CNN.
How we did it
So this part is for the tech heads amongst you…
Nostradamical.com is built on the excellent and highly intuitive Ruby on Rails framework. To connect in with Facebook we used Mike Mangino’s excellent Facebooker plugin for Rails and tutorials from the Elevated Rails group. Thanks guys!
There is also a great tutorial on implementing Facebook Connect with Rails and Restful Authentication here at MadeByMany.
For anyone interested in implementing Facebook Connect with Rails check out the above sites and the touch-down pages at the Facebook Developers Wiki. The Facebook Community Forum is also a good source of advice. For bloggers check out this quick guide.
What’s next?
We’re working on ideas to develop our Facebook integration to make a more seamless experience across Nostradamical.com. Got a suggestion? Send us some feedback.
Otherwise, browse our predictions and start forecasting. It’s easy, fun and a great way to express your opinions on current world events. Get it right and climb The Pyramid.
We’re also looking to integrate our Prediction Engine with One Riot to pick up the latest social data related to each prediction that our members post. Check back at our blog for more info.
