So in case you haven't been on the internet lately, there's this thing called Facebook. It's kind of like MySpace, but done right.
Well Facebook has just made a huge announcement. And Terralever, the company I work for, has been fortunate to be a part of it.
Essentially, Facebook has opened up their network for us developers to write against. We now have a HUGE amount of social data that we can use, and have our applications installed right on the user's page. "Click" and your friend just installed it. "Click, click" and two of their friends installed it. No copy + paste cryptic HTML like on MySpace. It's viral social networking at it BEST.
So we've got this awesome API to get this data. As a Flash developer, my goal was to get all of this information onto the Flash platform. The services are provided as (wonderful) REST service calls, but the APIs that are provided to us are all written in PHP and Java. Neither helped me very much . . .
So we had to roll our own. We've got a pretty nice start on it too! More details are going to follow soon, but if you're interested please drop me a line and we'll make sure that API is available to all you Flashers out there and keep you up-to-date as it matures.
I'm at Facebook's lauch event, and hanging out with a bunch of other devs now at their Hack-a-Thon. A VERY nice thing that Facebook has done for us, giving us direct access to the devs that actually wrote this platform!
I'm back to hacking with these other guys, but I'll post some more soon!
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