It’s here!
Thanks to all the crucial feedback we received from our beta testers, complements and critiques from the press, we’re now releasing our Dapper Facebook AppMaker.
What this will allow you to do is take ANY Dapp and turn it into a fully independent Facebook app. Use your own header, footer, background styling — really make it yours — and with absolutely no programming. If you can make a Dapp, you can make a Facebook app.
Several of our content partners have done just that. Answers.com took advantage of our AppMaker when it was in private beta to make this cool little app. MTV Programming did (and continues to do) the same (see their MySuperSweet 16 app [log in as some chick named "tailfeather"]). There’s more…I even made an über nerdy one for my Kellogg classmates. Careful: app making is addictive.
Now it’s yours. It’s as easy as 1) making a Dapp, or picking one someone has already made, 2) setting up an application with the Facebook Developer application (requires filling in a few details that we’ll give you), and 3) uploading some cool styling to an image hosting service and giving us the URLs. Soon we’ll upload a screencast for you to really take you through the process, but don’t worry it’s a piece of cake.
Sucking the programming out of Facebook app development is just another example of how we see Dapper as a tool that allows people to concentrate on their core focus yet still get the benefit from all the cool web services they can make out of their content, and the web as a whole. Thanks to all the writeups from TechCrunch, Mashable!, and CNN Money and our loyal blogger community, and thanks to content partners Answers.com and MTV for helping us hone the product!
Enjoy the AppMaker — and send us feedback here or at facebook@dapper.net.
January 16, 2008 at 12:32 pm |
This is cool and amazing – never thought I will be able to create facebook app without coding
Every single Dapper facebook app I tried this morning has failed – answers.com, Google News, 43 things – the error message I get is “facebook and makers of the ${app} are working out some kinks.”
Is there a reason for this? I added the youtube search app from some other mashup site and that worked fine.
January 18, 2008 at 2:39 pm |
Hi Vinay,
There were some problems with Facebook recently, and our servers went down for some short downtime. I recommend you try again today and if you have problems, please contact us via the forums or our contact form for the fastest response.
Best,
Jon
May 9, 2008 at 10:52 pm |
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