Using the Papervision library, and the Graph API Facebook library, I had the idea to build a 3D wall of images from these cool components over at FlashLoaded. I considered using their component, but decided to build my own. I had already built a 3D Carousel as part of my portfolio interface, and thought, well, a 3D Wall is just a bunch of carousels on top of each other… SO I revisited my old carousel and build it up to the wall.
This is turning into a long term side project, and I’m learning along the way. I really like the way FaceBook setup their FQL language, and so far I have been using a few tables along with FQL Multiqueries. This allows my app to do several SQL-type (FQL ) queries in one shot and get back the data in one object.
Some sample FQL calls I’m using:
Get data about the user’s friends:
SELECT uid, name, pic,status FROM user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) LIMIT 1000
Get Status/Post messages from each user ( depending on how recent in your Stream )
SELECT source_id,message, created_time FROM stream WHERE source_id IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) LIMIT 1000
What’s great is that these calls are AS3 native within the api ( but really use JavaScript and JSON externally). There are quite a few tables of data so just imagine the apps you could make…
As of 4/18/2011, I have 57 users on this app, 20 of them are Facebook friends. Lets see if I can beef it up and make it viral!