Gigya Socialize

Gigya Socialize is a service that enables users to authenticate in your site using their Facebook, MySpace, OpenID and other services. Socialize also enables users to connect with their friends on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networks and interact with them from your site.

Through Socialize, sites can publish actions into the Facebook Newsfeed and send Notifications to friends. Sites will be able to publish actions via the communication systems employed by other social networks once those networks enable that functionality. In addition, the social graph may be incorporated into a site to enhance the user experience. For example, a user’s Facebook friends can be displayed on your site as part of a newsfeed, where that newsfeed displays the actions taken on your site by each user’s friends. The newsfeed will display whichever specific action types you designate. Gigya Socialize is designed to protect users' privacy while giving site owners all the information and control they need to make their sites social.

Commonly used concepts of Gigya Socialize implementation include:

• Integrating Socialize to boost the number of users who signup to your site 
• Retrieving the user’s social graph information
• Getting extensive user information
• Sending Notifications and Newsfeed items to the user’s profile on social networks
• Inviting friends, through social networks and email, to visit a site or explore content