Default Apps Available for Bebo & Facebook
This latest release had a focus on creating default applications for both Bebo and Facebook. This means that any widget published to our platform will automatically be available as both a Bebo and Facebook application - without any additional configuration on your part. In actuality, the newly created widget would be added to our default applications, allowing users to engage with the widget alongside other widgets that are part of our default application. For apps that need their own identity or need to leverage social features, you still have the ability to spend a little more time and configure Bebo and/or Facebook to support your newly created widget.
We've added the ability to more effectively "share" Facebook applications with other users. If you are accessing an application, you can click "share" which will take you to the canvas page and make it possible for you to select friends that you want to share the application with. This helps to drive the viral effect of the applications.
For additional flexibility within the custom "send to friend" template, we've added the ability to parse out individual FlashVar values so that they can be printed in the email or used to generate URLs. In addition, the image URL now displays the image of the widget with it's FlashVars set - allowing you to send a very specific representation of the actual widgets rather than the default screenshot.
We've also implemented to backend changes which will improve performance. The first separates our tracking calls from the calculation that's done for our reports. This allows each system to function much more fluidly. The second change leverages our CDN to cache our proxy.api calls, ensuring that the response time is faster and we have less load on our servers.
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Wow! The default FB app sounds great! Any links for us to see what they look like?
Posted by: Christian | September 03, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Just click "copy me" and facebook on any widget that you haven't setup in FB. You can try it with this Brightcove widget if you want: http://www.yourminis.com/minis/yourminis/brightcove/mini:brightcovevideo
Posted by: Gary Benitt | September 03, 2008 at 10:53 AM
This is great news, i use other widget platforms to for my widgets, and it is a hassle to get them on social spaces like facebook and bebo.
Any chance for hyves in the future?
Posted by: Widgia | September 17, 2008 at 09:49 AM
Definitely a chance of Hyves in the future... ;)
Posted by: Gary Benitt | September 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM