Hot Team: Facebook Applications
The Facebook platform allows developers to create applications such as the Penn State Library Search application created by a hot team.
In 2007, some TLT staff and faculty from the University Libraries were discussing Web 2.0 tools in the context of the Libraries. The meeting was intended to get an idea of the types of things they are thinking about and we started discussing Facebook and the new Facebook platform opportunities. The librarians showed us what some other higher education libraries were doing in that context, and we decided to form a hot team to look at it so we could understand the potential. Part of the team’s exploration included building a simple library search application. In looking at it, the team saw some opportunities to mash up learning with the most popular Web application among students at the University.
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