YouTube APIs and Tools

FaveGraph

By: Addy Cameron-Huff - Aug 12, 2009 -   

FaveGraph is a Facebook application that allows users to compare their YouTube favourites with their contacts and famous YouTube celebrities such as Obama, Buck, BarelyPolitical, the Jonas Bros., and HotForWords. This application charts users' favourites in categories. The overall scores are aggregate scoring of the root mean squared difference for each category. In addition to comparing accounts, FaveGraph allows users to favourite/play other people's favourites.

This application is accessible from within Facebook and relies on creating an association between a user's Facebook account and YouTube account. Extensive use of YouTube data API calls takes a substantial amount of time to complete. In order to reduce load times, the server uses an aggressive caching system. Each user has the ability to compare to a set of YouTube celebrity accounts. Caching is done on an account basis so that accounts that overlap in contacts overlap in caching.

URL: http://apps.facebook.com/favegraph/

Code: http://apps.facebook.com/favegraph/

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