New idea!

So yesterday when we had our meeting in CSB 115, we started out trying to figure out how to hack into facebook so that we could change the colors and style of individual facebook pages. After looking at AppJet.com and the Facebook developers page, we decided that we could think of a project that would be more suitable for Facebook's regulations. We brainstormed a couple ideas, including games and weather reports, but finally decided on our new application.

In my first year of college, my roommate would collect Snapple bottle caps for the fun facts found on the bottom of the Snapple top. She would tape them up to the wall, and if she found one that she thought was funny or appropriate for me, she would give them to me to tape onto my side of the wall. This was our inspiration for our application, TopsBottom.

It will show fun facts, such as "a Goldfish's attention span is 3 seconds", on an icon similar to Snapple's glass bottle lids. The user will be able to select which factoid he/she wants to give to his/her friends or keep to display on his/her own profile. The idea is similar to other facebook applications, such as the gifts or bumper stickers. I'm excited :)

The start of Spice Market

This week my group met up on Wednesday for our first official meeting. After some talk throughout the previous class periods, we decided to work with Facebook and make an application that would allow the user to change his/her Facebook colors and styles. This seemed usable to the average college student, and something that we would be interested in having. We did a little more brainstorming and planned out a tentative schedule for the rest of the quarter. It was reassuring to discover that the other two girls on my team had similar goals and work habits as myself, which should hopefully make our final project run much more smoothly.

We presented our project to the class on Thursday, only to get a reality check from the class feedback that the project might not be as easy or plausible as we anticipated due to the complexity and legalities of the Facebook language. Though slightly discouraged, we agreed to still attempt working with our original idea, understanding that it might not be exactly what we had hoped for but looking at it as a learning experience.