http://blog.weekendapps.com Get serious coding in a Weekend Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:38:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With every change comes new opportunities. As you've probably heard, the new Facebook profile design is about to be released any day now and with it comes a major change in APIs and features. If you have a Facebook application that you want to update for the new profile, join ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/07/19/a-new-event-facebook-new-profile-change-athon/ Imagine my surprise when I saw that PikiPages, an application that launched at Weekend Apps has gotten a write-up in Mashable. Congrats to the Piki-team! PikiWiki, with its adjoining PikiPages Facebook application, offers users the option to create simple sites, complete with photos, audio and video, to easily share with associates ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/05/07/weekend-apps-application-gets-press-in-mashable/ So a lot of work was done last weekend, and 11 applications were launched and demoed to a live audience. Many developers built their very first Facebook application and launched it on a super compressed schedule. Many of us are still recovering from the intense weekend, and that explains why ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/27/the-weekend-is-over-but-this-is-only-the-begining/ Yes, that's right: 11 Facebook Applications were demoed to a big audience on Sunday night, and it was a great evening. Some teams came on Friday with an idea and a partly written app, and others came without any expectations, met others in the weekend, chose an idea and fully ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/27/11-applications-launched-in-the-weekend/ Kristen interviewed the developers of Deface A Baby, an application where you can draw on baby photos and share them. Here's the link to the video. http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/24/interview-with-deface-a-baby/ Here are two more apps that launched on Saturday. Matchtastic - "find your perfect match" Spring Break - Take your friends on a virtual spring break http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/24/two-more-apps-that-launched-on-saturday/ Here's a list of facebook apps that launched on Saturday. Deface A Baby - Draw on baby photos and share them. Pikipages - "drag and drop" photos, videos, text, html code into a canvas that you can share. Blogs I Read - Share the blogs you read, rank them, and post comments on ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/24/four-apps-that-launched-on-saturday/ Deface A Baby is the first app launched tonight at Weekend Apps. Users are given drawing tools to deface baby photos. Hmmm... where's the button to share my defaced photo? http://apps.facebook.com/defaceababy/ http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/23/first-app-launched-deface-a-baby/ Alex Notov, editor at Startupism.com, gave a quick talk on the value of using Adobe Flex for developing Facebook applications. Flex 2 is a cross-platform development framework for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs). Alex gave over 20 different reasons for using Flex, but here are my top three from his ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/23/flex-on-facebook/ Around 12:30PM today, people in the room stopped working to share some thoughts and tips: Virality first, usefulness second: When one group showed Siqi their first idea, Siqi suggested virality should be the focus and usefulness second. So the group moved on to another idea. If the app is ... http://blog.weekendapps.com/2008/02/23/wisdom-from-the-crowd-tips-and-tricks/