Adam Schwabe

I played around with Facebook’s API for a little while today hoping to put together some kind of contact exporter that would allow Facebook friends’ contact info to be exported/synchronized with an address book. Unfortunately, it limits the amount of information you can get access to birthdays, and a few other generic pieces of contact-related information.

That hasn’t stopped other developers from running with the API though and building lots of handy applications. Will Pate has put together a list of some of the best Facebook apps out there. Among my favourites are the Facebook Birthday Calendar Generator, an app that exports your friends’ birthdays in an import-compatible format, and Your True Self, which visually plots your friends across the political spectrum. It’s pretty interesting to see how all this data can be visualized and organized in so many interesting ways.