A couple month's ago, Facebook unveiled a project-in-progress called the Open Graph API, where websites could allow their visitors to use Facebook functions and interact with their Facebook friends.
Here's what Techcrunch speculates:
"So you can imagine that you might be able to create a Facebook-style Wall to include on your site, but able to update your statuses from your site, leave comments, like items, etc. Again, it’s like a Facebook Page, but it would be on your site. And you can only include elements you want, and leave out others."
Not many implementation details have emerged since then. But it sounds like a logical next iteration of Facebook Connect which lets a Facebook user bring his social graph with him to a non-Facebook site. With Open Graph, it sounds like the host site would then be able to support native Facebook applications and functionality as well.
Here's what Techcrunch speculates:
"So you can imagine that you might be able to create a Facebook-style Wall to include on your site, but able to update your statuses from your site, leave comments, like items, etc. Again, it’s like a Facebook Page, but it would be on your site. And you can only include elements you want, and leave out others."
Not many implementation details have emerged since then. But it sounds like a logical next iteration of Facebook Connect which lets a Facebook user bring his social graph with him to a non-Facebook site. With Open Graph, it sounds like the host site would then be able to support native Facebook applications and functionality as well.
The church website of the future can let its members log in with their Facebook accounts and interact with its content using Facebook's features. (ex leave Facebook comments/likes on a sermon, share pictures and links, etc).
Of course, any of these posts/comments will go back to their Facebook streams for their friends to see (aka outreach)
Sounds pretty exciting. Will churches be comfortable giving up this much digital freedom to its members?- Joe Suh
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