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WidgetPublisher:Friendster

Friendster is a privately owned internet social networking website. Its headquarters are in Sydney.

Friendster is focused on helping people meet new friends, stay in touch with old ones and sharing online content and media. The website is also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, hobbies, and more. Users can share content including videos, photos, messages and comments with friends via their profile and their network.

Friendster has over 90 million registered users and over 61 million unique visitors a month globally. The website receives approximately 19 billion page views per month, and is in the top 100 global website based on web traffic.

Over 90% of Friendster's traffic comes from Asia. In Asia, Friendster has more monthly unique visitors than any other social network (Source: Wikipedia).

Creation of a specific app

The creation of an application is very simple.

  • Go to the developper app
  • Create a new app and enter the following elements on the settings page
    • Canvas Page URL: Use ‘http://apps.friendster.com/your_unique_app_name’ but substitute ‘your_unique_app_name’ with the name of your app. This is the public name for your app, which must be unique across all Friendster apps
    • Callback URL: http://www.widgetavenue.com/wdg/loaders/fri_iframe.php?[Encoded list of args]
    • Canvas Display: iFrame
  • After creating the App, copy the API Key
  • Create or open your metadata file, and add the following elements:
	<div class="fri">		<div class="app_name">[short name you have chosen]</div>		<div class="app_key">[API Key provided by Friendster]</div>	</div>

DO NOT ENTER YOUR SECRET KEY IN THE METADATA FILE, FAX IT TO WIDGETAVENUE. Under no circumstances should you reveal your secret (especially in forums or when submitting test code for others to debug), otherwise other people can send API requests on your behalf.

The app will be ready to run when the secret key has been entered by WidgetAvenue.

Issues

There is currently a bug on Friendster which triggers an error message when using the settings link.

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