Today I became a Facebook developer and released my first Facebook application. My application is called “Trump Quotes” http://apps.facebook.com/trumpquotes. It is a collection of quotes by Donald Trump that you can paste to your Facebook profile and spread around the social graph. It’s nothing earth shattering, but a start. I wanted to get a feel as to how these apps work. The documentation on how to make a Facebook app is not so great at the moment so it actually took quite of a bit of experimentation to figure this all out. The app is build using Ruby on Rails, RFacebook, FBML and Mysql. If you are on Facebook, please connect with me if you have not already, and add Trump Quotes if you want.

Flock — The web browser for you and your friends

One of my friends recently took a position at Flock. He showed me their browser and I decided to try it. After about 1 week, I have pretty much switched to using it as my primary web browser both at home and at work. Flock is based on the Firefox browser which I was already using and so the transition was easy. Almost all the extensions I use are available for Flock with the exception of Colorful Tabs which I miss. You have to re-download your extensions because Flock cannot import them from your Firefox installation. Some nice things that Flock adds are the photo, newsreader and blogging integrations. I like the way you can see Flickr photos from within the browser and it includes an uploading client as well. I exported my OPML file from Newsgator and the integrated RSS reader in Flock was able to import it without any problem. I am enjoying the integrated RSS reader better than what I had a Newsgator. Flock is only at version 0 .7 so I’m sure there’s a lot more that they are planning to add to it. I could go on about all the cool things I discovered about it and some of the minor annoyances it’s just easier if you try yourself. This is a cool product and it’s free of course.

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