As a Facebook addict, I've been closely following Facebook's new open API. This allows outside developers to create widgets/applications for Facebook, which users can allow to access their profile information and can then embed on their Facebook page.
I count 212 applications so far. However, under the politics tag there are only 4.
The most powerful application created so far is by Obama's campaign. Here's a good review of the app itself.
The power of the app is how it interacts with your Facebook info. For example it searchs your list of friends and then tells you who lives in a early primary state and allows you to send them a message to support Obama. Grassroots organizing online...
I'm not surprised that Obama's the first to jump on this bandwagon-one of the founders of Facebook left the company to work for Obama's campaign. Obama may have the lead right now, but it can't be too long 'til the rest of the field gets on the bandwagon (this includes Republicans, I hope!).
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Design
It's interesting to see Facebook evolve with all of these apps. However, I've been reluctant to get on the "killer app" bandwagon. I'll have to check a few of these out before I'm ready to review them.
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Making an App
What programming skills do you need to make a facebook app? Since I have to ask, I'm definitely not the guy to do it... but I was curious how much work it takes.
A decent amount
You're writing a piece of software, so I think you need to be familiar with a coding language beyond html (which I'm not).
You can read more on it here: http://developers.facebook.com/
Right now I'm watching Mark Zuckerberg talk about Facebook's insides: http://developers.facebook.com/videos.php?inside_platform
definitely worth a peek.
Number 2.0
http://davidallgroup.com/
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