Facebook

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this announcement (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=225) but I think it's a pretty important step in the right direction.

GREAT NEWS from Facebook!

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=225

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The Facebook Open Stream API

Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we're opening the core Facebook product experience -- the stream -- with the new Facebook Open Stream API.

http://matthewm.org/blog/drupal-screencast-fbconnect-module-and-twitter-...

So I made my first attempt at a screencast. It's pretty simple and straight forward - I hope someone finds it useful. It just goes through activating fbconnect and twitter modules. I also go over some of the basic feature/function to get you up and running asap. Enjoy!

From The American Foundation of the Blind (AFB):

• A Review of the Accessibility of Facebook
• Survey on Social Networking Sites

If you'd like to see drupal for facebook in drupal 6, including some of the nice features that go with it, check out Dave Cohen's call to arms for help, both financial and coding to get it done by drupalcon DC.

Check out dave's call to arms
http://www.dave-cohen.com/node/3033

Frank Carey
TwelveGrove Drupal Development
http://www.twelvegrove.com

Security Researcher Defends Plan To Release Gmail Hacking Tool

The software could affect many SSL-secured Web sites, including Amazon, Facebook, Gmail, addons.mozilla.org, most Drupal sites, and many online merchants and banks.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle...

Recently a LOT of our church members (adults and teens) have discovered facebook and there has been a growing community and interaction growing there (one of our pastors had a 40th anniversary party organized via facebook).

I have finally found some time to start mulling over what role our church website would have in relation to all of this activity on facebook.

Do you have any ideas or experience in using your church website to complement facebook (not replace it, no need to re-invent a perfectly well working wheel)?

Yesterday was Facebook's f8 developers conference here in San Francisco. They presented some great information about the new look (wider canvas pages, wider profile boxes, new feed options) and also Facebook Connect which will change the way Drupal sites share information with Facebook. They held a hackathon and honored several of the projects Facebook's engineers considered the best. And Drupal for Facebook was a winner (specifically, of a Sony PS3)!

Speaking of conferences, I've proposed a session about Facebook App development at the upcoming DrupalCon. It needs votes to make it into the schedule, so if you will attend the DrupalCon, please take a moment to vote for that session.

I'd also like feedback, and more votes, for my grant proposal. This grant could help fund Drupal for Facebook, thereby making it easier to use and up-to-date with Facebook's latest features. If you don't know about the Knight Drupal Initiative, you really should participate. All the proposed grants need review from within the Drupal community before being considered by the Knight Foundation. And if you have ideas that need funding, you really should submit your own proposal.

What do you guys think about new API's launched by Facebook last week? It seems like it's going to make dataportability really easy. Here's the announcement on Facebook's site: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=108

Are there any drupal apps that enable you to do this already? I know of the Authentication module.

In case you weren't getting enough local Drupal content out of this group.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11463032865