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Tag: Facebook Connect

News Mixer roundup: links and thoughts on what comes next

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about News Mixer, and since then the intertubes seem to have taken a liking to our little project. I’m delighted that our code might live on in other projects.
Steal this code!
Like I explained in my interview with Kristen Taylor at Knight Pulse, the code is free.
So take it, [...]

How we built News Mixer, part 2: the trouble with Facebook Connect

This post is second in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]

Creating real-world social constraints with Facebook Connect

In our efforts to increase connections among the fine citizens of Cedar Rapids, Team Crunchberry has decided to integrate our efforts with a cool-as-hell new way to leverage social networks, Facebook Connect.
Facebook says Connect will enable users to:

Seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site
Connect and find their friends who also use your [...]