[wp-hackers] [GSoC2011] Integrating Facebook and other social networks with a personal WP / BuddyPress

[Piyush Mishra]

Read:
This basically means we can turn a WordPress single user blog (with 1
author) into his own profile.
All profiles and groups are distributed across the web on multiple servers
with each individual / group owning its own data.


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Piyush Mishra <me at piyushmishra.com> wrote:

> I would say Facebook can be a project on its own and Ostatus can be kept
> separate as a more complex and more interesting project.
> There are basically two types of end users for facebook integration
>
>    1. WordPress end users and Business blogs.
>    People with pages basically.
>    A friend of mine, Ankit Agarwal, started hacking on  a plugin for
>    integrating WordPress and Facebook comments. I joined in with the last
>    release of the plugin.
>    Currently this is what the plugin can do
>    - Push a link to wall/feed of the user when a new post is made on
>       WordPress (Probably adding as a note would be better in case of blog posts
>       atleast)
>       - Track all comments on that shared link on Facebook, pull them back
>       to WordPress
>       - Push comments to Facebook which are made on WordPress.
>    It would have been easier if we had posting on facebook comments with
>    openID from WordPress installation. (Like you can post facebook comments
>    using Yahoo)
>
>    Plans with the Facebook-Merge plugin.
>    - Provide almost all social plugins from facebook, customizable as
>       individual child plugins. (Connect, Comments, Like etc...)
>       - Let users post and pull from a page or profile with all formats.
>       Status updates, Videos, Images (Photos), Links, Standard post excerpt as a
>       link description etc.
>       - Probably add analytics (la ThinkUp) and let users access insights.
>       2. A Social network on BuddyPress
>    I dont think this one needs much explaining. Hit facebook connect
>    button and use both sites like one . (Am not sure of the legal stuff here)
>
>
> The Second project is making single user sites/profiles compliant with
> OStatus and Activity streams
> Social ID is a term I came up with to make it easy for myself. I think its
> officially called Ostatus.
> This basically means we can turn a WordPress single user blog (with 1
> author) Objects fly across the web to make your data completely yours.
> Further reading
>
> http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-2-specification.html
>
> http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/activity-schema-02.html
> and
> http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/atom-activity-02.html
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Eric Mann <eric at eam.me> wrote:
>
>> Integrating WordPress with a social network like Facebook or some version
>> of
>> Diaspora is interesting ... but more because we'd all like to see how it
>> could be done and how it could be done *well*.
>>
>> Are you thinking along the lines of pulling in content from an external
>> source, pushing content out to an external source, hosting a
>> Diaspora-based
>> system within WordPress or BuddyPress?
>>
>> How would you convert a WordPress site into "a complete social ID?"  What
>> exactly does that mean, what would it look like, and who would the end
>> user
>> be?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Piyush Mishra <me at piyushmishra.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello hackers,
>> > With the introduction of post-formats, its becoming easier and a
>> complete
>> > option to implement social integration on a WordPress install. Some
>> plugins
>> > are already out there but nothing to provide a complete solution.
>> StatusNet
>> > and diaspora protocols are also a good option if you think of converting
>> a
>> > WP install into a complete social ID.
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards
>> > Piyush Mishra
>> > http://www.piyushmishra.com/
>> > Life's Short, Live it to the maximum
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > wp-hackers mailing list
>> > wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>> wp-hackers mailing list
>> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Piyush Mishra
> http://www.piyushmishra.com/
> Life's Short, Live it to the maximum
>
>


-- 
Regards
Piyush Mishra
http://www.piyushmishra.com/
Life's Short, Live it to the maximum