Get Your Facebook On

How about a proper Newsvine Facebook app that displays a person's seeds, votes, comments, etc.?

I defiantly second this.

Smaran, the Facebook platform API is actually a joy to work with. I built the app over the weekend — and most of that time was spent creating images. The actual programming wasn't bad at all — Facebook provides some decent documentation and a great discussion forum, but the most helpful thing I found by far is the example "footprints" application they provide. The PHP REST library that comes with the example is very well documented and takes all of the guess work out of making Facebook API calls.

More Facebook apps are a possibility :)

I would also like to see a Facebook app that displays a person's recent articles, seeds, and votes.

Ditto, I'm sure it's a lovely Facebook application that lots of people will install; but I'm surprised the first one to come from Newsvine wasn't encompassing news stories, votes and comments.

I won't be installing this one, since I'm in the UK and it has no relevance to be; but as I said, I'm sure it's lovely and well-built.

I agree, something for us Brits would be nice.

*cough*editing comments*cough*
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*cough*fixed comment HTML parser*cough*

*cough*editing comments*cough*

Honestly -- this feature would probably be fairly easy to implement. With that in mind -- people have been asking for that feature for ages now, it may be the most universally "requested" feature.

I'm certain that the they know people want it. Putting two and two together -- I have to assume they have their reasons for not implementing the feature.

And, in the end, spending a little more time looking at the preview would alleviate the problem anyway. I make mistakes as often as (or more often than) anyone else -- and more often than not, it's because I've rushed to post a comment without proofing it.

I agree with Brian Ford, surprisingly (yes, I've surprised myself). I very rarely check my comment preview - but have forced myself to do so a lot more so I don't look like a tit and publish stupid mistakes.

I even use the Spell Checker and everything!

Err:

Honestly -- this feature would probably be fairly easy to implement. With that in mind -- people have been asking for that feature comment editing for ages now,; it may actually be the most universally "requested" feature.

I'm certain that the they know people want it. (The ability to edit comments.)

Putting two and two together -- I have to assume they (meaning the staff) have their reasons for not implementing the such a popularly requested feature.

And, in In the end, spending a little more time looking at the comment preview before hitting "post") would alleviate the problem anyway. I make mistakes as often as (or more often than) anyone else -- and more often than not, it's because I've rushed to post a comment without proofing it.

JESUS NEWSVINE STAFF! WHAT'S IT TAKE TO GET A COMMENT EDITING FEATURE?!

Seriously... I've been asking for comment editing since the private beta. $1 to anyone who can find an old pre-public beta comment of mine asking for the feature. (Remember, 1 USD is about 45 INR! That's 90 Cadbury Eclairs.)

That feature would create so much chaos. It's already tricky to track down how a thread devolved into the flame war it became. With feature editing it would be even worse.

I think we're mostly talking about a very short editing window, say 90 seconds.

And it looks like we might get it!

Nobody wants to see users have the ability to go back and manipulate what they've said. It would definitely be chaos, as you say, hemphill.

If the comments didn't show until after the 90 seconds were up, I could see it.

You sir, are not 'down with the kids.'

No, sir, I am not. And for that I am eternally grateful to my good sense.

My wife says she'll be embarassed for me if I get on it. Ergo, I can't.

Elliot — that's definitely one of the things I'll be rolling out once we get more votes in. Give me a few days and you'll start to see some metrics and graphs on our Facebook page.

The Facebook API is a great place to start. My specialty is graphic design, so I'm a novice when it comes to web app programming. The learning curve on the Facebook API is pretty easy, so I highly recommend just diving in.

Good to hear that; since I'm probably in the same 'web designer not die-hard programmer' situation. I might give something a go soon, too.

Yeah, or a tag feed, maybe? barack-obama

With the candidate-specific headlines it pulls from the candidate's tag. So if you vote for Obama you get barack-obama headlines.

The facebook news feeds in those boxes are also not updating yet. We have to send out headlines from Newsvine and update everyone's widget from our end — once thats in place the feeds will update every hour.

Ahhh, okay, so it isn't updating from this end yet. That makes sense now. :)

Now, if we could just get everyone to tag the candidates' stories with firstname-lastname tags, we could all help keep those Facebook modules up to date (once they're updating from here, that is).

Who are you talking to?

You're allowed to change your vote on the Facebook Election 08 application, Greg. As the field narrows, the votes will change... in other words, just because your candidate drops out or whatever, it doesn't mean you can't still vote for one of the candidates that is still in the race.

I realize that we can change. My problem is that Gore hasn't even announced, thusly, he shouldn't be on a list of possible candidates. I'm torn between a candidate that is actually running, or a candidate that isn't even one.

Gore right now has 3% of the Democratic votes on Facebook, yet he isn't a candidate, as such, he's taking votes away from other candidates who are actually running. Until he announces, I don't see why he is listed as a possible candidate.

Until he announces, I don't see why he is listed as a possible candidate.

Probably because many people (outside of Newsvine even) think he may be the "un-Candidate"... doing an end run around the whole established process. I don't think so, but I could be wrong. ;)

Greg,

Consider him a write-in.

That's not cool.

???

Just out of curiousity, can you share what the complaint was for those of us who are not Facebook users? Does it have to do with Newsvine?

Yes. Apologies. Didn't realize you wouldn't be able to see it.

I just couldn't believe that the top three candidates among my friends were Hillary, Mitt, and Barack . . . so I did some tallying myself.

This is what I found after looking at all 190 of my friends profiles. Among those who had the Election '08 application:

18 supported Ron Paul
1 supported Mitt Romney
1 supported Hillary
1 supported Barack

Obviously they left someone out when they were tallying the score.

Is anyone else noticing the same thing?

I'm angry. And it keeps diverting me to random politics when I click on his name.

That's from a thread, so other stuff was said, but that's the guist.

Looks like the dirty tricks squad at work, doesn't it....?

I don't know. I have like five friends on Facebook. It doesn't make much difference to me. I'm just sort of sitting there and acting as a missionary for the dream of states' rights.

That bug got fixed. I was using the wrong sorting routine on that data (asort instead of arsort), so it jumbled up the results. No political conspiracy, just bad PHP code.

Thats not cool at all ! That really piss's me off to see that.