Developing Facebook applications has never been easier
With our new Flash editing tools in Sharendipity, it has never been easier to build custom Facebook applications. We have super tight integration with the Facebook platform. Through RESTful web services, you can access the profiles, groups, and photos of your entire social graph within your Sharendipity creation! Furthermore, the new architecture makes it drop-dead simple to integrate the work of others to access this information so you aren’t required to re-invent the wheel to do things like fetch the profile data of your friends.
For example, after searching the Sharendipity community for “facebook” you’ll find a number of reusable elements that help you interface with Facebook. Some elements, such as “Facebook Service – friends get” are web services that are responsible for reading data from the Facebook API. Other elements, such as “Facebook User” are data structures that help encapsulate information about various Facebook values. Most of the time, the web services will return data structures to make it easier for you to access data. By using these higher level elements, you aren’t required to understand anything about the underlying web services.
Example Applications
There are a few applications already built using these reusable components. Whether it is a game or a utility, we know there are lots of opportunities to create engaging, expressive, and useful applications using the information from your Facebook network.
- Who Be Me? is a game that tests your knowledge of your friends by displaying photos of three random friends along with a random fact extracted from their profile information. The player must choose the friend that matches the fact.
- The Facebook Photo Browser is an application that lets you browse the Facebook photos of your entire network all in one place.
- Facebook Photo Scramble is a puzzle game that randomly selects a photo from your friends’ photos and challenges you to reconstruct a scrambled version of the photograph.
Network Integration
Just is the case with any game built on Sharendipity, you also get a variety of features that connect you and your application with all of your friends on Facebook.
- High score management
- A commenting system for your application
- In-game achievements
- The infrastructure for your friends to challenge each other in scoring duels
All of these features tap into the Facebook notification system to help you spread your work virally.
Get Started Today
What Facebook application have you been wanting to build? Get started by accessing Sharendipity through your Facebook account.
9. July 2009 at 10:12 pm :
[...] Developing Facebook applications has never been easier [...]
28. July 2009 at 12:16 pm :
Do you have any tips on how to get your sharendipity project up on Facebook as its own app?
28. July 2009 at 12:28 pm :
@andrew… right now we do not provide an automated mechanism for creating a Facebook application from a Sharendipity creation. But you have a couple of options.
1. Leverage Sharendipity has the Facebook application and run your creation through it.
2. Create a new Facebook application yourself and syndicate your Sharendipity application with our embed code directly inside the canvas page of your new Facebook application.
Note that we don’t currently syndicate the high scores, achievements, commenting, and challenging systems. So you won’t be able to add these elements to your application page along with the game. To use these, you’ll will have to run directly from the Sharendipity application.
7. December 2009 at 12:50 pm :
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