Hungry Machine

UPDATE: Animoto just raised a round of investment from Amazon! Congrats Guys!
Animoto is a great idea. They take your photos and create a production quality video to the music of your choice. Its the end of those boring slide shows, for good.

(From a recent Techcrunch article here)

We had [...]

Since all canvas page views are proxied through POSTs, resource routes were hopelessly broken. The Facebook platform team was kind enough to add a new feature just for us rails folks: a new signed parameter that indicates the original request type (i.e. POST v. GET) against canvas pages.

Here’s a small patch you can stick at [...]

This morning the Chicago Tribune had an article entitled “Facebook lets money flow”, which among other recent articles, outlines something Facebook got right. I spoke with the article’s author Eric Benderoff earlier in the week to discuss Hungry Machine’s monetization strategies on Facebook.
While MySpace has allowed third party companies to embed widgets for [...]

We’ve been helping partners promote their applications via sponsored cross-linking for a while now. I recently had an idea that has been converting very well. I encourage you to give it a try, whether it’s with us or with somebody else.
It’s simple: combine a positive review from your application’s review wall, your 75×75 directory [...]

Minor mention of our Visual CD Rack, a sister app of our bigger bookshelf application…
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Developing applications for Facebook is a pain. The tunnel approach helps a lot to ease that pain but even then I prefer to start a FB app as a regular application, polish the logic, and then convert it to the Facebook one by adding FBML and such. At the early stages of the development I [...]