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Birdwatching on Facebook: Eyeing API response and error rates for a social app

Birdwatching on Facebook: Eyeing API response and error rates for a social app

About about 2 hours ago - by scott | posted in: Case studies | tagged with: , , , ,

We spotted a great Facebook app in the wild.

Bird.im's Facebook app - apps.facebook.com/birdwatching - brings birdwatchers together to share and discuss their latest finds. 

This is a very well designed and full featured app - enabling sharing of bird photos, locations, discussions and connecting passionate enthusiasts with similar interests.   The Facebook platform at it's best.

The Birdwatching Facebook app provides an API for Facebook to consume when the user performs 'one-click' AJAX actions such as adding a bird, a country, or a photo for a spotting.  This streamlines entry creation by offering an alternative over a simple form and directly improves user engagement as users create and share more entries.   In the future, an iPhone app that enables entries from the field will also consume this API.

Hugo and the bird.im team (@birdim) use Apigee to measure API response rates and errors.  (see how Apigee calculates API response rates and API error rates in previous entries).

Thanks to Hugo for all the great feedback on our Apigee Feedback forum!

via apigee.com

Thanks apigee team for featuring our app.

New Features: Public and Friends Timeline

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We love to supply what our users request, so here they are Public and
Friends Timelines.
http://apps.facebook.com/birdwatching/?photos_by=tpublic
 
Try it, you will like it... This is the first version and basically just
shows: new sightings, birdbox comments, photo comments and new photos.
Next version due next week, will include more social graph features to
enhance your personal birdwatching experience.

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