Facebook Connect
December 30, 2008 4:18 PM 
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Subscribei.e.: Jack filled up his Chevrolet Aveo today. He got 28.4 MPG on his most recent tank.
Maybe that could link back with more details including price per gallon, miles, etc.
Ha! We were just talking seriously about adding this to fuelly as a new project today. Yeah, I agree that updates to facebook would be cool and I am guessing we could have this feature in a week or so, depending on how difficult the facebook platform is to work with.
I don't know much about it... but a facebook application probably isn't what you want. I'd say the Facebook Connect may be just the right thing.
http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php
Agreed, although how would you combine fuelly accounts with facebook accounts? FB Connect has you log in under your facebook login. There would have to be some way to transfer the data you have already amassed in a somewhat painless way for many people to use it.
I've been looking into Facebook Connect, and it looks like you can link accounts at any time.
I don't think we'd send all existing fuel-ups to Facebook, just those going forward after you connect your Fuelly and Facebook accounts. And the data would all be stored here at Fuelly just as it is now.
I'm also looking at finding existing friends on Fuelly by matching up your Facebook friends, but I think posting fuel-ups to your Facebook news feed is the most interesting feature of Facebook Connect.
I have each new fuel up show up as my Facebook status. I have my Fuelly rss feed post to Twitter via twitterfeed.com. Then in Facebook I have the Twitter Facebook application that posts each of my tweets as my Facebook status. The result is that I already have this feature, just not through Facebook Connect.
heh, yeah that works. But for people who aren't as technically plugged in, I think Facebook Connect would be a friendlier option.
Oh, probably so. But if anybody wants to do this NOW, there is a way. Also, Twitter makes a wonderful front-end to Facebook. Although, I did find my iPhone to be the killer hardware for Twitter. I would have never started using Twitter, or found it at all useful, without my iPhone.
I did the RSS thing with Facebook so when I do fillup it says so on my Wall. Just wish I had to fill up more! well not really.
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Erick
@GrantHenninger - hey thx that trick really kicks ass !!!!
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
Can twitterfeed handle more than one rss feed?
Yup. I have each of my three cars Fuelly feeds plugged into twitterfeed. You can even customize each one so they say something different for each car. Mine will say "Filled up T-Rex" or "Filled up the Miata" and then follow that with all the stats.
After wrestling with Facebook Connect for a while, we've decided to wait and see how their policies evolve. According to #8 at the FBC Policy Page, we can't post to your Facebook News Feed without popping up a window for you here every time you fuel-up so you can approve the feed item. That seems ridiculous and clumsy for everyone involved. The one ray of hope is that the page says, "This process is still being finalized. For now, you may not publish one line stories automatically." So this policy could change and we'd be back in business.
Until then, you can try out GrantHenninger's Twitterfeed hack, or import your Fuel-up Feed to your Facebook notes. I explained how to do that in the last comment in this thread. That works fairly well too.
It does that for me on consumerist.com and lifehacker.com, too. But, they do have a checkbox (though I don't use it) that says something like "do this each time".
I believe I wouldn't see it again if I checked that box.
pb,
Here is what I am talking about.
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/devsite/fbconnect_feedForm.png
If you look at that image, you'll see that there is a checkbox on the bottom left.
It wouldn't be a big deal for a user to click that one time if they don't want to see the facebook connect dialog again.. Also, keep in mind that you could make Facebook Connect completely optional to begin with.
ahh, I see, thanks for the pointer. That might not be too annoying, and yes, we'd only show it after someone explicitly approved Facebook Connect for Fuelly. I wish they'd mentioned that in their developer docs.
Yeah, they'd probably have a lot more sites using it if they did.
I personally like the popup on sites where I am commenting on a thread. For example, I may not want the comment published to facebook. Or, I already published a comment and don't want it to show up to Facebook twice.
However, on Fuelly I'd probably just click the check box and forget about it.