Andy Milk Interactive

We’ve launched Calisto100.com!  Here’s some info about the site:

Calisto100 is a community for students to vote and connect with other members from over 2,000 colleges and universities. Rate your favorite (or least favorite) photos, and have fun meeting new students on and off campus. Become a top 100 member by collecting higher ratings and more votes. Calisto100 is for students-only and 100% FREE. Upload a photo, create your profile, and have fun.

This site has been a long time coming and there are a TON of bells and whistles.

If you’re a college student, head here and submit a photo to the site:  http://www.calisto100.com/submit

If you just want to vote on students, go here:  http://www.calisto100.com/vote

One more thing:  We’re looking for Campus Ambassadors who are dynamic self-starters with a passion for marketing, public relations, and new media! Are you in college or grad school? Have a passion for start-up culture? Apply Here: http://www.calisto100.com/info/ambassador_application

Recently I’ve been concepting and building several Facebook applications for my clients.  Some of them are stand-alone, from scratch, and don’t have a companion web site.  Others are extensions of existing web sites or applications.  Instead of building an application from scratch, populating data, cultivating a user base, these extended Facebook apps already have a regular web application’s data and functionality to build on.  I’ll post a link to an app soon that I’m building for one of my clients that does just that.  It’s ALMOST ready for prime time.

Facebook unveiled the new layout in July and, much to the chagrin of many apps developers, some parts of their API changed, forcing app developers to update their apps.  It wasn’t THAT bad, though, and they gave everyone plenty of warning.

For the app that we’re about to launch, I needed to build it in ColdFusion and there doesn’t seem to be many resources out there for ColdFusion with Facebook.  I found Dominic Watson’s library, which seems to work with the old Facebook layout.  Then I found Gavin’s library.

BIG thanks to Gavin (http://cffacebook.wordpress.com/) for taking Dominic’s library and bringing it up to speed with the New Facebook.  It was the first library that I was able to get setFBML working successfully.  It’s one of the most valuable tools in a Facebook application:  the ability to post content on the logged-in user’s profile.

Check out the app that Gavin created using ColdFusion and his own library:  http://apps.facebook.com/humorous/

I just wanted to give a shout out to Gavin for helping me stop banging my head against the wall trying to build a library or fix an existing one.

Cheers!