Facebook Connect - whats your opinion?

[incredipete]

I for one would be very interested in seeing how this comes along. That said, I'll still be manually activating accounts and using every possible piece of gateway security known to man...

[drivencompassion]

Anyone ever find/develop a module for Facebook Connect, Twitter, Google Friend Connect, Yahoo and/or Windows Live?

[EastsideHosting]

Not one officially for WHMCS, No.

 

but, http://www.janrain.com/ (Formerly, RPXnow) does this with a simple API, I've considered developing with this addon for some of my websites;

 

I don't WHMCS should have it personally, maybe a facebook wall post or something about special deals as well as twitter would be cool.

[Inetbiz]

I posted a feature request about connecting FB like, comment stream in other areas such as the knowledgebase, advancing whmcs to detail product page and then use the FB like box and show the comment below that so prospective buyers are seeing real customer testimonials; support files section, etc. The forum thread can be found at Social Add-ons => FB Like

[jeremyhaber]

From a security perspective, people login to facebook from many different terminals around the world carelessly typing in their username and password. They connect using their mobile devices, office computers, public libraries, random hot spots, ect.. the list goes on. Hot spots can be hijacked by experienced hackers trying to get your information. As well you never know what spyware could be installed on any given machine.

 

I know I take special care logging into my hosting accounts from secure terminals I know I can trust. When it comes to Facebook I tend to look the other way.

 

It will be interesting to see how your clients will optimize the use of Facebook connect on your site. As well as see how you overcome the security concerns.

[jeroman]

Would like this very much!

 

Security - what can they do ? Pay the bills , he he

No I understand it can be an issue, but it woul dbe nice having one login to everything but the again,

they can have it today as well. Just pick the same email and pass as your facebook login

[CJC84]

Has anyone developed this yet? I'd be keen to have this functionality too! I'm really not keen on hitting up freelancer.com if I can get it from a "local" ;P

[Balage]

If Facebook was used simply to help gather the initial contact details for a new signup, that would already be a huge help. People tend to complete the checkout process more readily when it is simpler.

 

Also, using FB credits would be interesting.