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Read the Irish Times inside Facebook

Thanks to Online Journalism Blog, I learned that Dapper now allows you to build Facebook apps with ease. So I took the main news feed from IrishTimes.com, added it to Dapper and told Dapper to create an application that displayed the main news headlines from the Irish Times.

So we have the unofficial Irish Times news inside in Facebook app now. Bebo is next. If they won’t go to the kids, we’ll just take em there anyway.

Update: Running targetted ads on FB for the Irish Times app. Targetting Oireachtas and Taoiseach’s Office employees and TCD students into politics. Thanks to the 100 dollars worth of free ads.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm and is filed under Facebook, irishblogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Responses to “Read the Irish Times inside Facebook”

  1. Merrill says:
    July 13, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    This is so great… I cannot wait to create a FB app !

  2. Vince says:
    July 14, 2008 at 3:15 am

    Dapper.net is my new favourite website!
    Thanks for letting me know about it.
    Made a facebook app for Movies.ie news and featues

    http://apps.facebook.com/moviesie

    Can’t believe it was that easy, something has to go wrong with it 🙂

  3. MJ says:
    July 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Genius 😉

  4. Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Fluffy Links - Tuesday July 15th 2008 says:
    July 15, 2008 at 5:29 am

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  5. boliath says:
    July 24, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Damien, got this message today and yesterday when I tried to add the app…

    Error while loading page from Irish Times News (Unofficial)

    There are still a few kinks Facebook and the makers of Irish Times News (Unofficial) are trying to iron out. We appreciate your patience as we try to fix these issues. Your problem has been logged – if it persists, please come back in a few days. Thanks!