Intrinsitivity

Last week, I caught the API bug in which I have become fascinated by APIs and mashups of all kinds. Although I know that I have only scratched the surface of what is possible, I have managed to create a couple of apps using APIs and one also falls under the esteemed category of being my first mashup. The first app I created this past Friday (2/20) is called 10 Twitter Trends. You can read more about it in a previous post.

The second app, which is also the mashup, is a Facebook app and Facebook Connect (i.e., offsite) app called funfriendfotos. This app lets Facebook users edit their friends’ profile photos using Picnik, the photo editing service that Flickr uses. The idea was twofold: to see what I could do with Facebook’s API and, along with that, to create my first mashup. I chose Picnik because it does not allow a user to go crazy with a photo, but mostly to edit a photo’s qualities, like hue and saturation.

I could create a Facebook app that lets users edit their own photos and then upload their results back to Facebook, but that would certainly be very popular and would probably bring down my website’s server. I doubt funfriendfotos will get that much attention. I hope not, anyway.

But it was fun to make!