October 13, 2007

OpenLearn Units in Facebook, App

Last night, I came across a really simple recipe for writing a facebook app in 10 minutes last night, and was pleased to find it actually takes less than that, once you get your eye in.

The app builder is not really an app builder, as such, it's a recipe for embedding a webpage in an iframe with an applications "canvas" page on Facebook (not the actual profile page), very much in the style of Stringle.

Anyway, to get things started, here's an OpenLearn Course Units facebook app. Add it to your Facebook profile and you can read the content of every OpenLearn unit via the unit RSS feeds, which are bundled using my own OpenLearn OPML bundles.

Having cracked the recipe, it was easy enough to build some other apps:


PS for several other painless ways of creating a Facebook app, check out How to Build Your Own Facebook App.

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Posted by ajh59 at October 13, 2007 05:02 PM
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So if I'm not logged into Facebook what would I see.

And why not ?

Posted by: Alexander Hayes at October 16, 2007 02:35 AM

"So if I'm not logged into Facebook what would I see."

a facebook login page, i think

"And why not ?"

and why wouldn't you see the app? Can you see any other apps when you aren't logged in?

Would you expect to see the app if you weren't logged in?

You can see the OpenLearn units anyway at http://grazr.com/config.html?file=http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/openlearn/opml/openlearntopics.opml

I will post other 'raw' Grazr links when I get a chance (gotta rush for a boat now...)

Am I missing something in your question? ;-)

tony

Posted by: Tony Hirst at October 16, 2007 05:51 AM

I'd need to be logged into Facebook to see anything that was the point.

Posted by: Alexander Hayes at October 16, 2007 06:36 AM