facebook apps
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than developing your own stand-alone
applications, doesn't it?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/going-back-to-school-picking-up-where-facebook-left-off/
Back when Facebook was a social network only for college students, one
of the most popular features was the ability to see not only who was in
your class, but who else was taking the same courses as you. [...]
Rather than reinvent the wheel, Inigral is building its applications on
top of Facebook. Its first Facebook app was called Courses, which
basically aped the canceled feature that students loved. [...]
In fact, it has so many features that Inigral is planning on charging
for it. Who would pay for a Facebook app? Not students, that's for
sure. Instead, Inigral plans on charging universities. It is, in
that sense, one of the first enterprise apps on Facebook.
I remember seeing university IT admins planning a "portal site" which
would do a lot of this, including allow blog hosting, etc. This was
shortly after Facebook came out. I spoke to one of the managers and
pointed out that a lot of this already existed; he seemed surprised.
The university already had their own "community" clone site that did
much the same.
I see some universities are already plugging into facebook:
[stanford.edu] Facebook App Contest
http://stucomp.stanford.edu/facebook
[uoregon.edu] UO Libraries Search facebook app now available!
http://www.uoregon.edu/~bonamici/2008/07/uo-libraries-search-facebook-app-now.html
[rit.edu] Facebook Now Includes an RIT Libraries Application!
http://wally.rit.edu/whatsnew/facebook-now-includes-rit-libraries-application.html
Jason Nieh was scheduled to teach "Building Facebook Applications" at
Columbia in Spring 2008, but no idea what came out of that:
Special Topics In Computer Science, I (Bldg Facebook Application)
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/courses/list?yearterm=20081
