A lot of you have been writing us at feedback@wibiya.com asking about additional features and better ways to connect with your favorite social networks directly through the web toolbar. Well, the dev team here at Wibiya has been listening to your call and we are very happy to announce the launching of the great social layer that will give you and your users lots of social interactions – the Social Connect web application.
We’ve been testing it on our own toolbar for a while, and now it has been released for public use.
The Social Connect web app will make it very easy for your users to use their favorite social networks, connecting to multiple networks (such as facebook, Twitter and others) simultaneously. You will be able to adjust the web application settings manually to include the networks you want and new ones will be added as time goes by.
Once connected, your users will be able to perform various actions directly from your site, without leaving the web page. The actions depend on the network of their choice, but include status updates in facebook, adding friends, following and tweeting on twitter, updating MySpace and much more.
The great thing is that thanks to this social platform, users at your website will be able to update their status on multiple social networks simultaneously. The status can include the page title and an automatically shortened link too. Once a user is connected he can share any page with many different networks with just a single click.
Amongst the features which this social layer will offer during the first stages are:
- Connect/disconnect to the social network
- Get user details (name, picture and more)
- Get friend lists
- Get status
- Update status or Tweet, depending on the network the user is using
New features will be added and we’ll publish them and details on how to use them as they come out.
Also, we will continue updating the network list from time to time, adding new options. Once we update them, they will automatically be added to your list.
The Social Connect application is the ultimate connection with the best social networks and the best way to fully integrate your blog or website with social network features and activity. It will allow you to significantly reduce your bounce rate, activate multiple chat rooms, boost your site’s interactivity and more.
Also an important note for web developers: This social platform will create an easier way to develop “social web applications’. Thanks to our social platform you can use user credentials from the various networks (profile image/name/link), use various actions through different networks (FB status changes, twits etc), and you will also know when a user is connected and which network he is connected through, at any time.
More info coming soon so stay tuned!