Comments on: Facebook to library apps: drop dead

By: Uncontrolled Vocabulary #2 - Similarly, Horribly Aghast | Uncontrolled Vocabulary

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:35:28 +0000

[...] 1. Facebook library apps DOA? Catalog Search Apps Violate FB TOS? Make Your Views Known (Facebook – account required) Facebook to library apps: drop dead (See Also…) [...]

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The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #64 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:14:03 +0000

[...] Facebook to library apps: drop dead (See Also…) [...]

By: How to Lose Friends and Influence People

How to Lose Friends and Influence People — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:30:13 +0000

[...] used to, and then were evicted when Facebook decided only individuals could apply. (Whether you can run apps that lead people away from Facebook – say, into your catalog – is another matter . . [...]

By: Facebook and Rapport « The Other Librarian

Facebook and Rapport « The Other Librarian — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:31:21 +0000

[...] Pay close attention to the Terms of Use on Facebook. You do not want to find your applications turned off and rejected because they apply principles foreign to the service. Steve Lawson noticed a sudden scare when the first library applications for Facebook came out. [...]

By: Post #5 Is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? « Electric Bookshelf

Post #5 Is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? « Electric Bookshelf — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:24:25 +0000

[...] is not all that friendly to libraries, either. The Facebook terms of conditions don’t allow users to imbed search [...]

By: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:39:16 +0000

Does anyone have any pull with the W3C (X)HTML working groups? If so, we need to press them to include “” in the next revision. It would be a very useful tag that implies a particular semantic meaning.

:-)

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:34:34 +0000

Thanks for that information, Ken. I wonder if this signals a change in approach from Facebook, or the clearing up of a misunderstanding, or simply that YMMV depending on who you talk to at Facebook.

By: Jessy

Jessy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:58:21 +0000

Interesting. I seem to recall asking you why I should set up a Facebook page when I already have a personal webpage, and you had some kind of answer for me, which I now forget, but it was compelling enough that I did set up a Facebook page. I don’t do much with the page, just let myself be found there. Which I suppose is the reason to do it.

By: Gerry Mckiernan

Gerry Mckiernan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:41:52 +0000

Steve/

Thanks for A Great Synopsis …

I’m SomeWhat Puzzled by The Facebook Rationale …

There are already FbApps that by there nature search outside Fb. For example:

Wikipedia
[ http://apps.f8.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2352864526&b ]

Wikipedia Search – FUTEF
[ http://apps.f8.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2387383085&b ]

Your Thoughts?

/Gerry

FacebookAppsForLibrarians Curator

By: Ken Varnum

Ken Varnum — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:28:42 +0000

The very simple Facebook application we put together for the University of Michigan library catalog (http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary/) was originally rejected because it purportedly “stores user data beyond the context user session or specified timeout.” When I complained that it didn’t, I was told it was a web search engine, and therefore rejected. When I complained that it wasn’t, I was told that our catalog search tool — and that’s all it does — was acceptable and the application was approved and added to the directory. Persistence, in our case, paid off.