Facebook/Liferay Integration

Provides mechanisms to make Liferay integration with a Facebook page easier.

What is the Facebook Integration Project?

Motivation

More and more often, every virtual entity also has a Facebook page (companies, communities, bands, etc.). Facebook pages are very limited and people also need another website (for example, one built in Liferay) but then you have some stuff in your website, some stuff in Liferay...and your users may not know where to go. This project looks to provide the mechanisms to make Liferay integration with a Facebook page easier.

Goals

Initially, this project will contain some plugins (portlets) for having Facebook social apps (comments, "like" boxes, etc.). Some developments to come:

Integration of the openGraph protocol
Integration of Facebook comments on top of Liferay comments
Automatic integration of sites with Facebook pages

Benefits

This project will benefit site administrators who maintain a website built in Liferay and a Facebook page linked to that website. It will also benefit end users since they will be able to interact with their website from either Facebook or Liferay.