I’ve been busy on many fronts lately, but last week I found a little time to play around with Facebook Platform. John Edwards, whose presidential campaign is based in my own backyard, lacked a Facebook App, so I set to building one for him (unofficially, of course). Techpresident covered the app last week, and it is slowly-but-surely drawing adopters.
The app is very simple – a first start – and I plan to take community feedback as I develop it. If you’ve got suggestions I’m all ears. It might be a fun experiment to see what we can put together.
The bigger news, however, is that I’m going to clean up the code, and release a GPL version that any campaign/organization can use to set up a very simple application in Facebook. As Josh Levy correctly points out, there’s an enormous, important audience in Facebook – so it’s worth the time and effort to attempt to reach out.
I hope to have this code ready sometime next week. In addition, I will be writing two articles on Facebook platform for AOL Developer Network/O’Reilly, which will explain and document how to use the platform (and why). So keep your eyes peeled, and if you support Edwards or would like to try out the app, check it out here.
Tags: engagement, facebook, politics, publications
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
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