tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48503090468117390602012-02-16T15:44:02.498-08:00We The Keyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17255500518008215959noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850309046811739060.post-69465424287615611922009-04-01T09:31:00.000-07:002009-04-01T08:40:35.002-07:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">**We thought that we should have a blog of our own for these applications</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">(as of April,2009 the number is only 1 ).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">We want to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">share</span> with you what we were thinking while we were trying to build it.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>It was really cool to think that we will build something which will be used by others.</div><div>In the past we both(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://prometheandreamer.blogspot.com/">Nuruddin Ahmed Bappy</a></span>,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Shujon Naha</span>) have built games, sites(as part of our university projects).</div><div>But we didn't built them from user's perspective.</div><div>Then the thought "making a Facebook application" came into our mind!</div><div>175 million users! </div><div>We can get huge amount of users(lets see how much we can!).</div><div>Lets build something funny/useful for them.</div><div><br /></div><div>We started with Footprints (sample facebook application).</div><div>Then we started experimenting with facebook APIs with this application.</div><div>We transformed footprints to a "Naming application"</div><div>After a few days when we thought that now we have a basic knowledge about facebook platform, we should start building something <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">REALLY</span> useful (or REALLY funny) .</div><div>Then we saw there is no COOL application <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">for naming</span></span> in Facebook.</div><div>We already made the basic stucture for it.Why not complete it ?</div><div>Within a week we finished it! </div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OkJDT1xQwOQ/Scu2-0yIuSI/AAAAAAAAAAU/SaHXz2FS_wE/s1600-h/final.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OkJDT1xQwOQ/Scu2-0yIuSI/AAAAAAAAAAU/SaHXz2FS_wE/s320/final.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317544975478077730" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><a href="http://apps.new.facebook.com/mynamer">Here is the link for our first application</a>.</div><div>Its name is "<a href="http://apps.new.facebook.com/mynamer">What's My COOL Name?</a>"</div><div>This app has some COOL features.</div><div>This application lets you<br /><br />1.Give a name to your friend<br />2.Give a name to a group of friends/or a couple!!<br />3.If you don't like a name you can delete it<br />4.Rate names.<br />5.Request your friends to name you.<br />6.Browse easily your friends names.<br />7.See the popular friends (who have most names and ranks)<br />8.Comment on your friends names!<br />9.See the recent updates of your friends!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As this is our first app so UI wasn't that COOL(though the app name contains the word COOL!).</div><div>We are hoping to make UI better,easy to use and attractive.</div><div>If you want to see any new feature,just let us know we will try to add it.<br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Stay tuned for our next application! </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4850309046811739060-6946542428761561192?l=a4apps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>We The Keyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17255500518008215959noreply@blogger.com0