Drupal For Facebook

Drupal for Facebook needs a new name!

Dave Cohen
Submitted by Dave Cohen on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 22:09

I named this project "Drupal for Facebook" imagining an install profile or distribution of Drupal with all the extras needed to host a Facebook Application. While I like the name, it has two problems, namely the two trademarked terms "Drupal" and "Facebook".

The owner of the Drupal trademark (Dries) is reasonable. He understands that non-profit projects will use the term and generally Drupal is better off for it. The pit bulls in Facebook's legal department... let's just say they don't see things the same way. They are hassling me about the name. Rather than fight the power, I'm going to rename the project. But to what, I don't know.

So I'm putting this out there: what should the new name be? Send your ideas to me. I need a new domain and probably have to change the project's name on drupal.org, the facebook app, the twitter feed and everywhere else. Grumble...

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Facebook

Submitted by marcolav on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 20:09.

I have had this same issue as I had a bunch of FB and Twitter domains, and while Twitter has a much much MUCH more relaxed attitude, FB gets as nasty as it possibly can.
They even had www.facebooksucks.com removed while for example even PayPal had to surrender and allow www.paypalsucks.com to stay online. I think this is because most of us are scared by Facebook as it is more 'pervasive' than PayPal, meaning pretty much everybody ueses it on a daily basis and we are afraid we will not be able to connect with friends, colleagues etc
However, I would try and at least talk to a lawyer and have a read here http://www.paypalsucks.com/domain-name-disputes.shtml as you may have a good case against them. (hey if you win a few million $$$ in court you will be more than welcome to tip me..;o)))

Again, read that paypalsucks.com page before making any decision

Marco

Name for FFD

Submitted by Gabriel Kim on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 19:58.

Probably would be easy to employ some functions under module saving some code.. I'd call it: FaceBlue

good

Submitted by 100000117291753... on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 03:51.

good module

drupalface would be my vote

Submitted by Giorgos Kontopoulos on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 18:09.

drupalface would be my vote

Drupalface

Submitted by jackplain on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 09:01.

Drupalface is nice

Second that emotion

Submitted by Josh Koenig on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 23:44.

I like "Drupalface".

Also, it should really only be the domain they're concerned with, not the module name. I think.

test

Submitted by 176600061@facebook on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 19:59.

test

Mumbo

Submitted by Staffan Björnson on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 14:11.

asd s

Test

Submitted by Will Swofford Cameron on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 03:22.

Test

test

Submitted by 176600061@facebook on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 20:12.

test again

What about "dface" or

Submitted by Marc Cepeda on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 16:52.

What about "dface" or "druface"? Then there's "DFB" or just "Drupal FB".

FaceDrup

Submitted by BassKozz on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 21:40.

My Likey "FaceDrup" or "FaceDrupe"
ThoughtS?

drupal backend

Submitted by Fabian Dennler on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 08:39.

drupal as facebook backend could be called:

  • fb.ui and fb.api
  • fbridge
  • fbackend

You don't need to change the

Submitted by Gyuri on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 13:25.

You don't need to change the name of the module.

They are only complaining about the domain: drupalforfacebook.org...

Agreed

Submitted by Milind Shah on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 19:59.

Using Facebook in the name of your module is probably not the problem. However I fail to see why Facebook is on your case; your product is specifically designed to work with Facebook -- what else is it going to be called? You're not claiming to be Facebook. And no one is going to confuse "Facebook" with "Drupal for Facebook".

Regarding the name change: you might want to specify it's a Facebook App module. Maybe that will appease them.

Nice work, btw.

Dracebook or Drace Book

Submitted by paucku on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 11:09.

What do you think of Dracebook?

drupal4fb?

Submitted by Jason Chinn on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 22:28.

d4fb? how bout we do a facebook theme and get this off garland? ;)

Facebook inspired theme

Submitted by Esben Haabendal on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 14:44.

I have started work on a facebook inspired theme for Drupal, based on Zen Theme Starterkit.

It is hosted at http://github.com/esben/zenfb

but it is really just started, and I haven't even started getting it to work for other setups than the most basic I use myself.
But if anybody can use it, or even better, improve it, please feel free, and don't forget to contribute back to me :-)

An example of this work-in-progress can be seen at http://ridepony.dk

I'm using garland for this

Submitted by Dave Cohen on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 14:07.

I'm using garland for this site because I want it to look like Drupal. Is that a bad idea?

New Name

Submitted by aaronnewton on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:57.

frupal?

@ how bout we do a facebook theme and get this off garland?

Facebook is pretty Garland-ish anyway.

or fubal, or perhaps fbal. or

Submitted by Esben Haabendal on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 16:36.

or fubal, or perhaps fbal.

or turn it around, and use drubook or druface.

or facepal?

facepal(m)

Submitted by 655247848@facebook on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 11:25.

facepal(m)

New name

Submitted by Michele Diodati on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 14:03.

Facebook Colossus