Widget platforms Archive

More Facebook Platform applications


As expected, the ideas I recently wrote about have been implemented (and perhaps already had been before I wrote it). There are at least two “Top friends” applications out there, and two “poke” alternatives, and an adoptable pet application. A search reveals that someone seems to be working on a gift app too. I expect [...]

Facebook Platform app ideas


I haven’t even started digging into the documentation seriously yet nor have I looked at the sample application, but I’ve been playing with existing Facebook apps and a bunch of ideas are bouncing around in my head. I’m sure a lot of these are pretty common ideas, but since there’s no “search” function that I [...]

Facebook Platform!


I’m pretty excited about the Facebook Platform which was announced yesterday. It goes beyond just “widgets.” It lets you create modules (”Facebook applications”) that run right inside of Facebook. They have access to the user’s data, if users consent to it. Apps can have a box on the user’s profile page, as well as having [...]

Widgetbox


I’ve made my cyber-pets available on Widgetbox. Widgetbox is, in their words, “an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages.”
From a developer’s point of view, Widgetbox is great to work with. Creating or modifying a widget to work within Widgetbox’s system is pretty easy. The multi-step process wizard is very easy [...]