Hey guys -- I've been a little quiet the past week or two - but that's cause we've all been so damn busy fixing bugs and building new stuff for you dudes.
DEVELOPER DIARY: Social Connect Code
Edited By coonce
By now - you should have all pretty much seen Dave's new profile and site mocks (awesome stuff - if you haven't checked them out, you can see the mocks at:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/18954/869743-profile_view.png
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/18954/869741-profile2.png
)
And I've been working with him to get our signup/sign on code organized so we can start to make it better, more seamless. A big part of that, is building the functionality to allow you dudes to sync your GiantBomb account to your Facebook account or your OpenSocial account -- so that we can share data back and forth between all of those accounts. Anyway, its been a bigger project and I'm currently finishing up the Facebook Connect stuff and moving on to integrating all of it into your profiles......
The game plan, and this isn't definite - is to merge my code branch into Dave's redesign branch and work together to get everything pushed out sometime in February..... again, we're still trying figure out our timelines on all this - but I just thought you dudes would be interested.
As always, hope everybody is doing well - stay classy.
Hey guys -- I've been a little quiet the past week or two - but that's cause we've all been so damn busy fixing bugs and building new stuff for you dudes.
By now - you should have all pretty much seen Dave's new profile and site mocks (awesome stuff - if you haven't checked them out, you can see the mocks at:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/18954/869743-profile_view.png
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/18954/869741-profile2.png
)
And I've been working with him to get our signup/sign on code organized so we can start to make it better, more seamless. A big part of that, is building the functionality to allow you dudes to sync your GiantBomb account to your Facebook account or your OpenSocial account -- so that we can share data back and forth between all of those accounts. Anyway, its been a bigger project and I'm currently finishing up the Facebook Connect stuff and moving on to integrating all of it into your profiles......
The game plan, and this isn't definite - is to merge my code branch into Dave's redesign branch and work together to get everything pushed out sometime in February..... again, we're still trying figure out our timelines on all this - but I just thought you dudes would be interested.
As always, hope everybody is doing well - stay classy.
Good to hear from you again coonce. :)
I definitely like the new mock ups. I can't wait until you guys finish whenever you guys end up finishing it(whether it be February or later). Keep up the great work!
Great stuff as always coonce.
Not that I'm really into social networking sites, but shouldn't you guys be doing MySpace integration? Isn't that the king of social networking sites? Or is MySpace just to crazy at this point?
"Good stuff as ever Coonce - looking forward to the OpenSocial integration!Yeah - we were kicking around that idea today --- like better email verification and so forth..... not exactly what we're gonna do on that side yet. good feedback though :)Will we be seeing stricter user account validation as a result of this?"
"A cool feature, but I don't necessarily want my Facebook linked to my GiantBomb account, or vice versa. I would imagine that this sentiment is rather prevalent in many users, so I don't know what functionality the feature could eventually encompass."yeah - again, its all optional, so if you don't want to sync ur accounts you obviously dont have to..... its mostly just to ease the signup process for new users -- so they can quickly find any FB friends on GB and pull in their FB data to pre-populate their profile, etc....
"Jayge said:Cool. It might be beneficial to try and do that for Digg too, if that's possible."A cool feature, but I don't necessarily want my Facebook linked to my GiantBomb account, or vice versa. I would imagine that this sentiment is rather prevalent in many users, so I don't know what functionality the feature could eventually encompass."yeah - again, its all optional, so if you don't want to sync ur accounts you obviously dont have to..... its mostly just to ease the signup process for new users -- so they can quickly find any FB friends on GB and pull in their FB data to pre-populate their profile, etc.... "
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