16 Sep 08 Facebook Application

The MGL team have finished and are now currently testing a facebook application that will be used to capture details of facebook users (your patrons) and store them right in your database. The facebook API is limited to allow us only certain types of functionality, but we are clever little code monkeys and have found ways to do what has been needed for a while.

The first version of the application will include a big shiny “Create a guestlist at <venue name>” button on the venue or promoter’s facebook page. This means that your patrons can now create their guestlist from the wonderful big world of facebook (which lets face it, everybody checks more times than they check their cheque account.That was a pretty bad joke. Please don’t hold me against it.

And off course the beauty of it all is that with each guestlist created, that patron’s details (and any of their friends if you choose) are stored directly in your database.

Facebook is one of the busiest social portals on the net at the moment, and why miss out on all the benefits it can provide to you?

Should have been done by now.

Tsk tsk competition…