That is my jam!

Facebook Applications.

Like I said before, Facebook released their developer's platform a couple weeks ago. Basically right now it's just for members (read: college kids plus whoever wants to join a high school or work network) so it's been a bunch of collegefolk creating stuff they like. It's not like MySpace where you can add an application to a page...they've just released their API so a registered webpage can access the information of the person who signs in. Here are some of my favorites (which may or may not be in the Product Directory):

• FacebookRSS: not exactly an RSS feed but a nice app that shows the number of wall posts, messages, and new messages you have, as well as a map of your friends' locations (that's embeddable elsewhere), your photos, and friends' pictures (and a male/female ratio chart). Really nice UI here.
• FaceSave: download your own photo albums as zip files. Pretty handy for if you lose your pictures or want to grab them all.
• Spin the Bottle: with your friends. You can pick males or females or both. It's cute!
• MatchBook: see which of your friends you have the most in common with (musical, cinematic, political, etc. interests). Now if only it wasn't my ex that I had the most in common with!
• BookFaced: a Google Map mashup. There are a few of these floating around but this one seems to be popular. This was an obvious application and it's cool to see - I've done some Google Maps API stuff before.
• Interesting Friendship Finder: this is a pretty cool app. It finds your friends that are friends with one another but not necessarily what you might think (because they're in different networks). There are some false positives but it showed the ones I was waiting to see - which I had found out by the mutual friends list on Facebook (e.g. someone from my college knowing someone from my high school) - plus it came up with one or two more I didn't know.
• lickuacious: See who of your friends is most popular according to the number of wall posts they have. My most popular friend is Big E of Wake Forest Basketball fame. There's an option for you to figure out where you lie on the list, but it would be nice to be able to search for one of your friends. Because if Eric Williams is at the top, I want to know where Chris Paul is...you know, without having to do all that work of getting on Facebook and looking at his page ;)
• PhotoMosaic: makes a mosaic of your blown-up Facebook picture...from your friends' Facebook pics. It could be better-executed but it's a hot idea.
• FaceFreaks: analyzes the interests of your friends and tells you who's the nerdiest, shallowest, sportiest, and emoist. It's "a somewhat spiteful production"...I like it. Except I'm the emoist of them all.

So yeah, these are some of the cool applications that have popped up in the last two weeks since they released it. People are contributing their own client libraries which Facebook has posted. I still can't get enough of it! People get to create things that are relevant/fun/useful to the community and Facebook gets some good ideas they might be able to implement in the future. And now that someone's made a PHP4 library I might be able to get an app done in the near future :)

Link.

posted by annie @ 10:18 AM