Good Times At Facebook F8

So, despite an extremely hectic workload, I made it down to F8.  Some interesting stuff from the profile changes to Facebook Connect. Of course, it means more things we need to do to properly code applications and adjustments that will be required for past apps, but hey, that's why we love technology right!

Facebook F8 was a good time.  It was fun seeing the different apps that were being funded by the FB 10 million dollar fund.  Weddings, travel, games and carpooling were popular apps.

I mostly spent my time in the user interface track with one session on advanced application development. There are some cool new things we can do now with performance and iframes which is nice.

The new profile is better I think.  Now as we build apps, we need to code for four things:

1. Tabs
2. Profile Boxes (same as before)
3. Info Box (if you have pertinent info that applies to a users profile, like your astrology sign)
4. Canvas Page --- pages that can be viewed without adding the app.

Facebook connect will be interesting... it's basically using a facebook login on an application outside of Facebook which will let you tap into their social graph.  There are some interesting applications to this.  They demo'd City Search with reviews and moveable type for blogs.  There are two things I think are really cool about Facebook Connect:

1. If you have a small site and want to pop in a social networking component, Facebook will allow you to let a user login to their facebook account and access information like you would in facebook.  This allows you to then display friends amongst a wealth of other things.
2. If you want to advertise your site within the Facebook news feed (which they are REALLY emphasizing now with the new design) you can allow user to publish their actions to facebook when they do something on your site like, post a comment, review, picture, etc.

 

http://developers.facebook.com for more info on Facebook Changes.

 

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So, despite an extremely hectic workload, I made it down to F8.  Some interesting stuff from the profile changes to Facebook Connect. Of course, it means more things we need to do to properly code applications and adjustments that will be required for past apps, but hey, that's why we love technology right!

Facebook F8 was a good time.  It was fun seeing the different apps that were being funded by the FB 10 million dollar fund.  Weddings, travel, games and carpooling were popular apps.

I mostly spent my time in the user interface track with one session on advanced application development. There are some cool new things we can do now with performance and iframes which is nice.

The new profile is better I think.  Now as we build apps, we need to code for four things:

1. Tabs
2. Profile Boxes (same as before)
3. Info Box (if you have pertinent info that applies to a users profile, like your astrology sign)
4. Canvas Page --- pages that can be viewed without adding the app.

Facebook connect will be interesting... it's basically using a facebook login on an application outside of Facebook which will let you tap into their social graph.  There are some interesting applications to this.  They demo'd City Search with reviews and moveable type for blogs.  There are two things I think are really cool about Facebook Connect:

1. If you have a small site and want to pop in a social networking component, Facebook will allow you to let a user login to their facebook account and access information like you would in facebook.  This allows you to then display friends amongst a wealth of other things.
2. If you want to advertise your site within the Facebook news feed (which they are REALLY emphasizing now with the new design) you can allow user to publish their actions to facebook when they do something on your site like, post a comment, review, picture, etc.

http://developers.facebook.com for more info on Facebook Changes.