Facebook Stock Quotes Application
I just finished writing a basic stock quotes application for the new developer platform. We’ll see if it takes off or not, as right now I am its only user. It doesn’t help that it’s not in the directory yet either!
The stock-quotes application took me about a weekend of work to complete, working part time a few hours a day. There are three major parts to it:
- The backend to store user, ticker pairs and cache quotes
- The hooks that set the FBML on users’ profiles
- The canvas pages that let users edit their tickers
Facebook’s new platform is relatively easy to use, but not without its quirks. For example, it’s applications have both the notion of “standalone canvas applications” and “dynamic profile applications” with no way to turn off one in favour of the other. So, when you build something on the Facebook F8 Platform you’re essentially building for at least two code paths, even though most of your users will probably only want to interact with the application through the profile.
If this app hypes you up, please check it out on Facebook or give it a Digg!
Update: Facebook won’t include me in their directory. They sent me this mystifying email: “Thanks for your submission of “Stock Quotes” to the Facebook Platform’s Product Directory. We have reviewed your application, and unfortunately cannot yet add it to the directory because it is unfinished or under construction. Please fix this problem and resubmit the application.” I wish I understood, because it is working and in use on my profile!
Update 2: Now it’s listed in the directory! Yay! By magic after about 10 minutes after the above email!
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Facebook won’t include me in their directory. They sent me this mystifying email: “Thanks for your submission of “Stock Quotes” to the Facebook Platform’s Product Directory. We have reviewed your application, and unfortunately cannot yet add it to the directory because it is unfinished or under construction. Please fix this problem and resubmit the application.” I wish I understood, because it is working and in use on my profile!
When I submit application, also have this problem , The main reason is ?
Looks like something that I will use and refer others to. Hope they allow it to continue.