As you know, about 110% of our students use Facebook, the social networking website targeted to college students.
Students use it all the time and include a lot of information (sometimes too much) about themselves in their profiles.
Facebook released its API – its development platform – in beta earlier this week as announced on their developer website:
If you’re reading this post it means we’ve officially launched our new developer portal. This is the beta version and we’ve been working hard to provide you with a sweet development platform. (…) Facebook Developers will be evolving over the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled here for updates, or subscribe to our feed to stay up-to-date.
So, what type of data can you play with?
The Facebook Development Platform allows you to create applications utilizing the following data from Facebook: profiles, photos, friends and events.
I guess it won’t be long until some smart people in charge of students or alums relations offer some customized services to “their” Facebook users.
What would YOU like to do?