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I think this is pretty neat, and I do like the Twitter integration a lot. I'd also like to see Facebook integration, so people can announce their attendance. Al

I think this is pretty neat, and I do like the Twitter integration a lot. I'd also like to see Facebook integration, so people can announce their attendance. Also adding the event to TripIt might also be useful. Here's one I just set up in < 2 minutes: http://lanyrd.com/2011/gas/ http://lanyrd.com/2011/gas/

simonw 16y ago
We're thinking pretty hard about Facebook and LinkedIn integration. The problem is that we're not just using Twitter for sign-in and as a source of friends: we're also using it as a conference speaker identity directory. Lanyrd lets you list the speakers for a conference, e.g. "@timbray is speaking at AndroidCon" - without those people necessarily having signed up for accounts on the site. Since speakers often have large Twitter followings, this makes it much more likely that a user signing in for the first time will get at least a few conference suggestions. This complicates things a bit when we start involving other identity providers, since we then have to start tracking equivalent accounts on multiple services (Tim Bray on LinkedIn = TimBray on Facebook = @timbray on Twitter). Not impossible, but fiddly enough that we're sticking with Twitter for the moment.
- saurik 16y ago
  I don't think Lewisham meant "for authentication". Once logged in with Twitter, you might still want to easily send a message to your Facebook account. One might also imagine the conference could have an associated Facebook event. Nome of this would require dropping the current "use Twitter as primary login" concept you are describing.
  - simonw 16y ago
    Oh, like "Share this on Facebook" buttons? We'll take a look at that.
- Lewisham 16y ago
  I wasn't necessarily saying Facebook should be used as the identity mechanism, just a Facebook share button so people could put it on their News Feed.

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I think this is pretty neat, and I do like the Twitter integration a lot. I'd also like to see Facebook integration, so people can announce their attendance. Al

by Lewisham 16y ago

simonw 16y ago
We're thinking pretty hard about Facebook and LinkedIn integration. The problem is that we're not just using Twitter for sign-in and as a source of friends: we're also using it as a conference speaker identity directory. Lanyrd lets you list the speakers for a conference, e.g. "@timbray is speaking at AndroidCon" - without those people necessarily having signed up for accounts on the site. Since speakers often have large Twitter followings, this makes it much more likely that a user signing in for the first time will get at least a few conference suggestions. This complicates things a bit when we start involving other identity providers, since we then have to start tracking equivalent accounts on multiple services (Tim Bray on LinkedIn = TimBray on Facebook = @timbray on Twitter). Not impossible, but fiddly enough that we're sticking with Twitter for the moment.
- saurik 16y ago
  I don't think Lewisham meant "for authentication". Once logged in with Twitter, you might still want to easily send a message to your Facebook account. One might also imagine the conference could have an associated Facebook event. Nome of this would require dropping the current "use Twitter as primary login" concept you are describing.
  - simonw 16y ago
    Oh, like "Share this on Facebook" buttons? We'll take a look at that.
- Lewisham 16y ago
  I wasn't necessarily saying Facebook should be used as the identity mechanism, just a Facebook share button so people could put it on their News Feed.