Recently Facebook introduced the Dashboard to all its users. In addition to a major change in the layout of your Facebook experience, this change also introduced new options and features behind the scenes for Facebook development.
Overtime ThirstyPhoto will be developing more integration into this Dashboard. Currently, when someone rates your photo, or adds a comment, you will get a notification to the Dashboard. See the example below. To get to the dashboard, in Facebook click Home in the upper left corner, then click the Applications menu item in the left side bar. Form there you will see general notifications from Apps that you commonly use. You can click on the link to go directly to the photo and view the rating, or new comment.
In order to see your ThirstyPhoto notifications – be sure to Bookmark the App within Facebook. Simply go to our About page (here). If you have not yet bookmarked the App, simply click on the bookmark button. If you already bookmarked the app go straight to the Dashboard (here).
Facebook Dashboard Example
Our Facebook App now displays a live feed from Photography Competitions Network, an online listing of photo competitions around the world. Check back frequently to see what new contests have been announced. Go there now and see what’s new! See listing here.
Listing of other online photo competitions
We have added a rating system to the Facebook App now. For every photo submitted, a Facebook user can now rate the photo from 1 to 5 stars. This is how winners will be determined for contests.
Expect to see more features with the Facebook App around rating photos. The next couple of weeks, both our current contests are scheduled to open for voting. Since this feature just came out, you are now able to vote for the Popular Selection for both contests early. Be sure to give feedback on this!
example rating
The website has supported a 5 start rating system before the App was released. In the past, the voting window was turned on for a specific time in order to determine winners, and then closed again. Let us know your thoughts on how we should support photo rating in the future, by voting on the poll below.
How should we support photo rating in our Facebook App?
- Only allow voting for a short time, lock the votes once a contest closes (70%, 28 Votes)
- Always allow voting - whether the contest is open or closed. (30%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 40
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I played around with application development on Facebook for ThirstyPhoto. The hardest part was the CSS styles, I am just not good at layout (if you haven’t noticed already!).
Check it out and give me some feedback : http://apps.facebook.com/thirstyphoto/index.php.
Thanks!
Nick
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