Openface Project Blog

Bebo platform similar to Facebook platform

2008-06-19T15:50:00.000-07:00

Last night, Steve and I attended a wonderfully insightful presentation of the Bebo platform. The main take-away was that the differences between Bebo and Facebook are minimal. Therefore we are going to add support for Bebo to the Openface framework. If anyone is interested in providing input, let us know.

More on the presentation: The presenter, Blake Commagere of Vampires, Zombies, and Werewolves fame, gave multiple reasons why porting your Facebook app to Bebo may be preferable to using a cross platform framework such as Openface. One of the reasons was that most users don't care if they can log into multiple networks and see the same information. Additionally, Bebo has done a great job of supporting most Facebook features, so the work is minimal. Blake said he only had to write about 100 lines of code.

That said, audience members offered support for a cross platform framework like Openface because they said cross platform connections helped increase their network effect. For example, presenter John Smart said that Zoosk, an online dating application benefited greatly by having the largest possible user base, which means going cross platform with a single database. We couldn't agree more better.

So in the end, there are benefits and disadvantages with each option. Our goal with Openface is to make it so simple to support cross platform networks that you don't have to make that choice.

Openface Presentation from SDForum SAM SIG

2008-06-04T11:14:00.000-07:00

I've been asked several times for a copy the presentation that Steve and I gave at the SDForum SAM SIG last week. In fact, I gave it again via webinar to a company who may become a customer. I loaded the PDF up to the project page so feel free to share - http://code.google.com/p/openface.

And if anyone is interested in hiring us for Facebook and/or Opensocial project work, we'd be happy to give the presentation in person or via webinar again.

We're for hire!

2008-05-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

Steve and I are officially announcing our consulting services. We are experts in implementing social network applications accross multiple social networking platform such as Facebook and OpenSocial containers such as MySpace, Hi5 and Orkut. We have created and launched 2 applications and have 3 more paid customers. Let us know if you'd like to hire us to create your cross-platform social networking application!