DrupalCon SF 2010: Facebook Applications, Powered by Drupal

- Would your website be better if it took advantage of your users' social network?
- What if you could present content to your users, and their friends on facebook, even if they have never visited you site?
- Could you attract more users if they skip registration, instead using their facebook username and password to log into your site?

Facebook Apps make all of this possible, and Drupal is a great tool for building these applications.

This talk provides an introduction to Facebook Applications, including Facebook Connect. We'll talk about how these applications differ from typical web sites, and also how they are similar. Finally, we show just how to build these apps using Drupal, specifically with a set of modules called Drupal for Facebook.

Drupal for Facebook is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, and sponsored by a grant from the Knight Foundation. The presenter, Dave Cohen, is the project's primary developer.