Feature Suggestions

I marked this as sticky, for a few days. We've had a feature suggestion post before, but it generally gets way off course on either really site-specific requests or unreasonable/impossible requests.

As for your specific notes, there's always more extensions we could support. We have a few ideas on how to improve our breadth of extensions that we integrate with. First, our next release, v4.3, will be adding a plugin based system for Open Graph descriptive tags and Open Graph actions. We'll be releasing some plugins to add these description tags (like we do for Content and K2 already) as well as for some other extensions. Ideally, our system will be easy enough to use that other developers will create their own plugins as well.

For our next major release, v5.0 (early next year), we're revamping the profile plugin system to ease development and hopefully make it easier for both us and other developers to create profile plugins as well.

We plan to keep allowing our extensions to be extended through plugins in this way in the future and grow our overall ecosystem. There's a lot of great devs we're already chatting with behind the scenes and hope to have some good announcements over the next few months.

With all that said, Zoo isn't currently being investigated. We have gotten a good amount of requests for Zoo support though, and if we don't have an Open Graph plugin available right away, I can definitely see coming up with one after v4.3 is available.

For statistics, the Open Graph Actions will have an activity log area in the admin section logging all actions that have occurred ("John read article 'x'"), etc. That will only work for Facebook users and won't cover all actions (Like and Comment won't be tracked, for instance), but it's a start. Commenting is difficult as we don't currently 'see' what comments a user has made or store them in the database. We'd love to add that feature in a future release, but don't have a timeline on it.

Hope that helps explain, and, as always, your feedback and/or suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,
Alex

Zoo may support the Open Graph descriptive tags, but it doesn't support the Open Graph actions. The "actions" are the thing that are going to be amazing for increasing your marketing reach, something you're looking for. Actions will let your site automatically post to a user's timeline when a user reads an Zoo article on your site or let you easily add a "I recommend this" or any other "I <blank> this" type of button to content on your site to post to the user's wall/timeline. Those types of actions have a much higher click rate than any other marketing right now and will be very valuable to add to any site.

As for the suggestions on comments, we agree, all those features would be great. We've investigated (a few times) vastly improving our comment support to store comments in the database which would allow a lot of extra features since we could mine that data on-site (something you can't do to the comments when they are simply stored on FB). It's just gotten pushed back repeatedly by other features user's have requested more often.

Hope that all explains, and definitely keep giving us any feedback you have!

Thanks,
Alex

Eoin,
Just letting you know I'm un-sticking this topic. It's been almost a month with no other comments. The next release of JFBConnect is coming mid-next week with support for Open Graph plugins. Zoo will not be supported immediately, but we do plan to create an Open Graph plugin so that you can automatically trigger 'actions' for your users on your site when they interact with Zoo.

Hope that helps, and if you have any other feedback, we'd love to hear it.

Thanks,
Alex