I'm going to switch over most of my sites that integrate with social networks (facebook/twitter) to using Gigya's services. It's a really cohesive approach that allows users to check up on their social networking activity from Facebook and Twitter (in an aggregated way) and then auto post token-based statements back to these networks about their activity on your website. I've already garnered interest from the maintainers of that module/service (http://drupal.org/node/596738#new). Essentially, getting Gigya to send FBSS statuses to a user's wall/feed in their own social networks is the goal here. Gigya is already setup to work this way with nodes. I will look into acquiring another programmer to help facilitate this.

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icecreamyou commented
Status: Active » Postponed

As I noted here, I don't think there would need to be any changes to the Gigya modules. FBSS already supports posting to Twitter via the Twitter module, so I would expect Gigya integration to be quite similar. The only issue in my mind is the UI -- for Twitter integration, FBSS currently uses the existing Twitter module UI to allow administrators to choose the extent of integration they want and to allow users to choose whether their statuses should be posted to Twitter. I haven't used Gigya (yet... I'm planning to try it out at some point) so I'm not sure how to handle the UI bits.

Having someone else help work on this would be fantastic. I won't be able to touch it for at least a week, more likely two, and the last time I looked at the Gigya API (admittedly awhile ago) it wasn't particularly clear to me.

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icecreamyou commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (works as designed)

It looks like the best way to do this is using Actions and Triggers.

API documentation is totally absent in Gigya, and it is nontrivial to figure out, and I don't have a Gigya account -- and I'm not sure there would be any difference to use the API directly anyway.