Although it hasn’t been accepted into the directory listing yet, the Unthirsty Facebook App is now live, and you can add it to your Facebook profile. The application will show you the closest happy hours to the location you enter as your current location in your profile, and then will place the 5 closest in your profile homepage. You can also set the default location for Unthirsty to look for happy hours, if you don’t want to use your current location.
This is revision one and may have some bugs, so if you find any leave me a comment. I’ll be working on improving in the next few weeks for incorporation into Unthirsty: Level 2. One bug you may want to know about is that if your current location in your profile isn’t set it will break the app, so if it doesn’t work for you, make sure your information is filled out.
Awesome news came out of Facebook this week that they opened up their system to allow developers to create custom applications that can live in Facebook profiles. I checked it out and started developing my own application, but it wasn’t without a lot of hiccups on the way. My settings kept getting reset, my application kept disappearing, and the API kept giving random errors. Right now I can’t even work on it because the system lost my application and I can’t add it back in. Fortunately most of the work is done on the application living on my server, so I haven’t lost much work.
I am still excited to finish this application and see if Facebook applications take off and become a successful thing, and I’m willing to let them work out a few kinks before I can get my application up and running. I’m just really glad to not be a Facebook engineer right now.
If you have a Facebook account, be on the lookout for some cool apps, and also coming in the next few days there will be an Unthirsty Happy Hour Facebook app available that will show happy hours nearest to your location set in your profile.