David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture : Facebook

Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

davidzi — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:56:15 GMT

So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very cool app built on Adobe Air. Today via @EverythingMS I heard about sobees, a .NET app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed (yeah!), and many other sources. I’ve only just started using it in the last hour but it looks very slick. In addition to bringing in a bunch of networks, it really shows off .NET/WPF and what you can do with UI design. It supports full Aero transparency, the ability to zoom text sizes in and out, multi-monitor support and a bunch of other UI niceties. There are several color themes available and a wide range of layout options for arranging the services. As an FYI it seems to run fine so far on my Windows 7 RC installation.

I don’t know anything about the makers of the software yet so other than pointing out that it looks like a cool beta implementation your mileage may vary.

Below you can see a screenshot of three services (you can add in more) updating in real-time (Note: I blanked out some of the Facebook status on purpose). Definitely worth checking out. They also have a video up if you wan to see it in action.

Facebook for Windows Mobile

davidzi — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:33:13 GMT

Microsoft has released Facebook for Windows Mobile. The application provides the following features:

Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.
Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.
Send messages or call people in your Friends list.
Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

MobilityMinded has a very detailed step-by-step guide to the applications with lots of screenshots:

Image Credit: MobilityMinded.com

Facebook via Silverlight and WPF

davidzi — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:43:29 GMT

There was a lot of buzz last week with Facebook’s Open Stream API announcement. There were many demos of applications leveraging the new API, one good one is Seesmic Desktop which I’ve been using as my Twitter client and now has Facebook integration. It's an Adobe AIR based application. On the home front, Microsoft took part in the Facebook event and showed off some very slick Silverlight and WPF clients leveraging the Facebook API. Both were technology demonstrations created in 72 hours by two teams of 3 developers. This post over on Team Silverlight has the details and a bunch of screenshots. In their Twitter stream they say that they will be publishing the source code for these very soon. Below is a TechCrunch video showing them in action.