Registration up 300% with Facebook’s Registration Tool

http://marketaire.com/2010/12/23/facebook-registration-tool/

by bjonathan • 16 years ago

39 17 16 years ago

I've tried using it, but I couldn't find any way to validate the data against information on my own servers (ie for unique email address), so it felt like I was giving up some important functionality.

I was impressed with how straightforward it was to get running though.

mikeknoop2• 16 years ago

You should be able to pull the data from their API after registration. You can do the logic checks on that data and present your own HTML form prefilled with the data Facebook sent you if anything needs to be changed.

andrewingram5• 16 years ago

You can - the data gets POSTed to a URL of your choosing, signed with your secret key.

But I don't like the interruption in flow that I have to force on the user in order to present a second (nearly identical) registration form just because the validation on the first is rubbish - especially for a field as important as email address.

RoyceFullerton2• 16 years ago

The documentation says you can do async validation: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/adv...

andrewingram5• 16 years ago

Darn, now I look like quite the fool :)

I'm going to go ahead and pretend that wasn't there when I was trying it.

knaox3• 16 years ago

It would be nice to introduce a way to pull a user's data from Facebook and display content that's relevant to that user. I know there's the Facebook user activity widget, but I'm talking full displayed content.

Obviously this would be ideal to do on the fly.

tnorthcutt• 16 years ago

"For example, FriendFeed beta tested the tool and their sign ups by users with Facebook increased by 300%."

(Emphasis added.)

StavrosK• 16 years ago

To be fair, did they know which users had Facebook but didn't sign up with it, or did they assume that only the people with Facebook signed up with it? That wording could mean that traditional sign ups stayed at the same number, while Facebook connects increased by 300%.

maushu2• 16 years ago

Hmm, doesn't seem to be working on chrome 8. For half a second there is empty space where, I guess, the form would show up but it disappears. I tested it on Firefox 3.6 and it works.

jobu• 16 years ago

Site appears to be completely down at the moment - some sort of database error.

maushu2• 16 years ago

That was before the site went down. The site worked fine, the facebook form, didn't.

Registration up 300% with Facebook’s Registration Tool

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