Drupal For Facebook

"Bring the Power of Drupal to Facebook Applications"

Sep 26, 2007

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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Normally wouldn't post a link to something without testing it out ourselves first (that's just not how we roll), but this one seemed worth sharing right away.

Saw this link come across Scoble's shared feed and was absolutely intrigued. Seems one Mister Dave Cohen is working on a method for throwing your existing Drupal content over onto your Facebook account. Also apparently will give Drupal developers a handy and familiar way to create Facebook apps. Pretty damn cool idea.

If you want to see it in action, take a look at http://www.drupalforfacebook.org and compare it to http://apps.facebook.com/drupalforfacebook/. Like Nick O'Neill mentioned in his original post, Cohen's ported his Drupal install into the Facebook app. Looks good.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I'm usually pretty down on the social networking stuff. I have a Facebook account, but really haven't used it for much (feel free to look me up if you need a friend). I haven't had that Facebook epiphany so many of its fans have experienced, and I don't really get the hype.

All that said, though, coming from a Drupalistic perspective, I think this is pretty damn cool. Gives those of us with a little Drupal experience a backdoor into the apparently ever-so-fabulous world of Facebook . Wouldn't be a bad idea for the Facebook people themselves to fund some of Cohen's work to get this going... Seems to be in their best interest to harness the Drupal vote. Frankly, the idea of a Drupal site (like this one...) being seemlessly integrated with Facebook makes me all tingly.