As pointed out by Sheila Brennan, the Brooklyn Museum has released a Facebook application called ArtShare to display their art collection using the Developer Platform. You can add pieces of their collection that rotate on your Facebook profile page, and share them with your friends.
The WPBook plugin I wrote for Wordpress that embeds your [...]
Yesterday I made the trip to Philly for a Facebook Developer Garage. There was an array of people, from developers, to job recruiters looking to hire, to your average bunch of tech-groupies. It was fun. Something I heard over and over was: “we can’t find enough people to develop Facebook applications for [...]
Over a year ago, when the Facebook platform wasn’t a platform at all – just an API in its infancy san the features that now define the social experience on Facebook (mainly feeds, which were added later) I created the first Facebook survey for my ongoing research of the Oregon Trail computer game. I [...]
By now you’re probably familiar with college courses being taught about Youtube or in Second Life, but last Thursday began something new: a college course taught at Stanford University on Facebook applications. Cramming over 100 students into a temporary classroom, professor BJ Fogg wrote the following in the Stanford Persuasive Technology blog about his [...]
Edit 01/07/09: I’m no longer involved with the majority of development of WPBook. There’s a great team currently working on it, and we have a Google group where questions/problems can be fielded by active community members.
My foray into Wordpress development is WPBook, an easy-to-install and fully customizable plugin that creates a Facebook application mirroring the [...]
In another move to distance themselves from their college-oriented roots, Facebook has removed their “courses” feature that allowed students to indicate what courses they’re taking and the profiles of their classmates. On the Facebook Developers blog, they announced:
Facebook will be phasing out its Courses feature in early August, and we wanted to make sure [...]
Using the new Facebook platform, several libraries have established a presence by creating applications. These applications are added by users and allow information to be displayed within Facebook’s website — even a user’s profile. Michigan, UIUC, and Ryerson U have all led the pack with the earliest of these academic applications.
While these [...]