Facebook is dropping support for application tabs on user profiles. Starting from Wednesday this week, users will not be able to add the APRS tab using the aprs.fi APRS application to their FB profile, or publish any other application data in their public profiles. For details, please see the Facebook developers blog.
If you think this is stupid and wrong (like I do), please complain to Facebook. If you are a Facebook user and still wish to try out the APRS FB application and haven't done that before, please do so before Wednesday.
Sorry for the late notice, but I didn't expect them to actually remove it. They promised 4 months of lead time, but now they're pulling the plug after only 1.5 months.
If you ever consider developing a Facebook application, please remember that Facebook can pull the plug for you at any time they wish. It's a gamble, and you can certainly loose the time you've invested in developing a Facebook application.
There is plenty of discussion and complaints about the matter on the FB developers forum
Additionally, if you have any smart ideas on what the APRS application could do (instead of publishing your APRS position to your Facebook friends using your profile tab), please let me know.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, January 30, 2009
Facebook APRS integration
Today I released the Facebook aprs.fi map application. If you're on Facebook, you can use the application to show the position of your APRS tracker / vehicle on your profile page. Yes, you need to sign up on Facebook to get a glimpse of it. Sorry about that.
The map is somewhat configurable, supports several different map types, zooming, different measurement units and coordinate formats. It runs on the same quick and scalable backend servers with aprs.fi.
There are some issues with the combination of Google Static Maps and Facebook, so it might stop working once it becomes a bit more popular. We'll see later.
I'm sure a lot of you will shake your heads in disbelief, and quietly comment something about the uselessness of this feature, but let's face it, Facebook is a big thing, and I just wanted to try it out, see what's going on in there, and figure out how things can be integrated with it.
aprs.fi also has a facebook page now. I don't know what it's good for, but at least you can mark yourself as a fan of the site to show your support. And maybe exchange some related photos, links and videos there, or use the discussion board. I'm sure it has a better discussion board feature than this blog's comments.
The map is somewhat configurable, supports several different map types, zooming, different measurement units and coordinate formats. It runs on the same quick and scalable backend servers with aprs.fi.
There are some issues with the combination of Google Static Maps and Facebook, so it might stop working once it becomes a bit more popular. We'll see later.
I'm sure a lot of you will shake your heads in disbelief, and quietly comment something about the uselessness of this feature, but let's face it, Facebook is a big thing, and I just wanted to try it out, see what's going on in there, and figure out how things can be integrated with it.
aprs.fi also has a facebook page now. I don't know what it's good for, but at least you can mark yourself as a fan of the site to show your support. And maybe exchange some related photos, links and videos there, or use the discussion board. I'm sure it has a better discussion board feature than this blog's comments.
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