back from holiday (sort of), I’ve been toying with the Facebook-API and built my first tiny little application today. it simply fetches Hugh MacLeod’s latest cartoon from gapingvoid.com and renders it on your profile.
if you want to install Gaping Void to your profile, the application-link is apps.facebook.com/gapingvoid - enojy!
while the original BarCamp has been celebrating its second anniversary this weekend at Socialtext’s offices in Palo Alto (here is a video-interview with some of the founders), Vienna will happily hold its third installment of the unconference-format as early as september 29th/30th. the list of attendance already looks very promising…
don’t forget to upgrade your Wordpress installation to version 2.2.2 (2.0.11 if you’re still on the legacy-branch). there have been some security leaks disclosed last week, so this is mandatory. the update should’nt break anything…if you encounter any problems on this blog (which has just been upgraded), feel free to shout - thx!
fellow bloggers Infopirat and Datenschmutz’s Ritchie Pettauer (both links german-only) have started a combined link- & Technorati-favorites exchange (the more readers favor your blog, the higher your authority calculated by Technorati). to get a Technorati-favorite from me, just backlink to this post and add my blog to your favorites - voila! as soon as I find your backlink I’ll add your blog to my favorites as well. more participants after the fold…
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seems like there’s currently at least one appealing Facebook-application to install each day (if you are willing to donate that much time, that is). the accurately titled ‘Books’ (found at Guy Kawasaki’s blog) shares your current, previous and future reading-list with your Facebook-friends. the app is tied to Amazon’s catalog and works quite nice, the only feature I’m missing are automatic recommendations based on your friend’s reading-lists (they should just add a “Books I should read”-tab for that).
Books is available for installation right here…if you’re in my network you probably already have received an invitation… 
so what’s your favorite Facebook-application? (besides the obvious ones, like Twitter, Flickr etc.)
update: ‘Books’ seems to search the american Amazon-index only, so I wasn’t able to add this one. interestingly, the ‘Buy’-Link doesn’ lead to Amazon, but Barnes and Nobles instead
my YouTube API-extension PHPTube has been voted 2nd place in the PHP Innovation Award of PHPClasses.org - very cool :), thanks everybody for voting & congratulations to the other winners!
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