RunningAHEAD - Topic: Facebook Integration

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Facebook Integration (Read 2846 times)

JWoodruff	posted: 3/31/2008 at 3:35 PM
	Has anyone heard anything further about a facebook integration?

eric :)	posted: 3/31/2008 at 8:53 PM
	Quote from JWoodruff on 3/31/2008 at 3:35 PM: Has anyone heard anything further about a facebook integration? Still working on it.

Christian S.

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posted: 4/3/2008 at 2:13 AM

Quote from peter71 on 3/12/2008 at 1:30 AM:

By all means post any other suggestions you might have. For instance, do you want to see graphs? Summery info (week totals etc)? PRs? Do you want it to post to friends news feed? etc. Friend challenges?

a nice display would be the following: with a starting point and a direction, using google maps, show how far someone has run within the current week/month/year or in total
e.g., starting in X running east, runner R, who did 100 miles this year, reached point Y (just draw a line in google maps)
would give a nice visualization and look impressive
tell me if you need any help with that, I think I could program this stuff having the data

balacker

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posted: 4/3/2008 at 11:01 PM

Quote from Christian S. on 4/3/2008 at 2:13 AM:

The only thing you would need an RA API for is to get the mileage; the harder part would be using the Google Maps API.

peter71 view log	posted: 4/4/2008 at 2:54 PM
	That would be cool. Certainly more dramatic that a list of numbers. I'm not really sure how to do the maps part though, you'd have to programatically figure out a destination that was the right distance along roads and roughly the right direction, which strikes me as perhaps difficult. Easier would be to draw a line east around the great circle of the earth...

Christian S.

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posted: 4/5/2008 at 6:50 AM

I didn't think about streets. just geographical distance. even through oceans (if Google Maps had information about that it would be cool, but only nice to have...)
the direction would be nice because a user living close to the west coast could show that he ran to the east coast, a user in Canada might show that he ran to Argentina etc.
another possibility would be to give two points (e.g., hometown and the place where you live at the moment) and then to display how many times one ran that distance (from LA to NY and half way back etc.).
you're right, all I need is the mileage. I'll try to do something.

markc123 view log	posted: 6/11/2008 at 10:42 AM
	Is there a plan to add any form of API? I have tried the Javascript for data display on blogs and I can only get one to work at once - all other instances seem to fail. An API would mean I could code up some PHP anf do it myself A decent face book plugin would also be excellent publicity for the site! Viral marketing time.

eric :)	posted: 6/12/2008 at 1:31 AM
	mark, I'm working on and off on a REST interface. I haven't worked on it recently because I just want to wrap up the new log. There is a smaple app out there for Face Book. We need to find tune it to reduce the load on my server before it can go live. eric :)

Strings_n_88keys

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posted: 7/2/2008 at 7:11 PM

Quote from brantcarter on 6/14/2007 at 1:48 AM:

One thing that would help is if you could put together an API for your site. The scripts are fine but they are hard to parse.

For example instead of

document.write('

');

Have a URL I could hit that would return a list of the last 5 workouts and return

You know... this shouldn't be so hard to wrap in an intermediate script.

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markc123 view log	posted: 7/4/2008 at 8:07 PM
	That's good new eric...... Will keep an eye on this thread and see what I can write when it appears.

AnneCA view log Sunrise	posted: 9/3/2008 at 4:32 PM
	Just jumping on this thread to add my vote for a Facebook app. I'd definitely use it, and if you need beta testers, let me know. I'd be happy with a simple box read-out like with the javascript option now. I guess if it updated the mini-feed when you entered a workout, that would be cool. I'm definitely not interested in mapping -- I tried the mymotionbased app on FB, but, even though my profile info is friends-only, I'm still a little wary of web publishing maps of my runs, which mostly go from my house. Thanks for the work on it, and I look forward to seeing what's developed!
	KaiPerm HM, 2/1 Emerald Across the Bay 12k, 3/15 Bay to Breakers 12k, 5/17 See Jane Run HM, 5/30

E-God

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posted: 9/9/2008 at 1:25 PM

I would like to add my two cents worth too! There are a bunch of running log applications for facebook that integrate from a parent site, but they are all incredibly lame! Several don't even work/do anything at all! If RA is taking this on it is a massive opportunity to attract new users from other poorly intergrated FB applications. I don't have the tech sav to help, but would love to see the summary graph and a way to challenge your friends. This would bring my more competitive mates off the couch and RunningAHEAD!

paul_26.2 view log 2008 Du Run Run-Duathlon	posted: 9/9/2008 at 7:02 PM
	Just wanted to add my four cents worth (inflation ya know), that I'd love to see a Facebook application for RA as well. And speaking of facebook...how many RAr's have a facebook page and how do we get hooked up as "friends"? I'm not all the tech saavy
	running/weight goals for 2009… 1) STAY INJURY FREE!!! 2) Get to 200 lbs by the end of May…and stay there 3) Get below 20% body fat (currently at 25%) 4) Break 25 minutes in a 5k (current PR 25:41) 5) Break two hours in a half marathon (current PR 2:05:09) 6) Run 1,400 miles for the year

ʇuǝɹʇ view log ʎǝʞuoɯ ʎʞunɟ	posted: 9/9/2008 at 7:23 PM
	Trent here - http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1258602986 My marathon - http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1258602986#/group.php?gid=31450611872
	noʎ ɥʇıʍ ǝq ʎǝʞuoɯ ǝɥʇ ʎɐɯ

Jeff view log	posted: 9/9/2008 at 7:26 PM
	Trent, you're on Facebook? No way!
	a vagabond,..highway-beater; a rolling stone, one that does nought but runne here and there. ~Cotgrave, Randle A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611

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