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Search The Entire Facebook Community from your Dashboard

Facebook Search Widget

August 2005 - January 2006

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Facebook Search Widget (75k)	Mac OS X

Facebook Search is a lightweight widget designed to ease the lookup of student information on the facebook community.

Due to recent changes to the way Facebook processes search requests, functionality of this widget has been broken, at least to the extent of my own testing. If it still works for you, please let me know. Contact me using the link above. I plan to update the widget again so that it is once again functional, although I don't see this happening for a few weeks from now (7/26/06).

[version history]

Version 1.6
	What's New • Fixed a bug in which users would be directed to the cookies setup page even after correctly configuring their cookies. • Fixed a bug that caused the widget to begin a search with no user input. What's Next? Look for the following features in future releases: • More bug fixes • Results displayed as a list of names in a drop-down drawer within the widget interface itself, rather than linking to an external browser window. Limitations • [see version 1.5 limitations]

Version 1.5
	What's New • Searching only within your personal network is now supported. When searching via name, users may choose to search either the enitire facebook community, or only those in their own network. • Searching via attributes other than student names is now supported. Users may search their facebook network via name, email, city, state, ZIP code, AIM SN, cell phone, other phone, or interest. What's Next? Look for the following features in future releases: • Bug fixes Limitations • If not already specified, users must set their Safari preferences to accept cookies "Always." Having the Facebook Widget perform this operation for the user was considered, but ultimately decided against, in favor of allowing the user to maintain their own cookie settings. If not already set to "Always," details of how to change this setting will be provided upon a first attempt at searching using the widget. • When searching by attributes other than name, results are limited to only those in the user's personal network. This limitation is imposed by facebook.com, not by the Facebook Search Widget.

Version 1.0
	What's Next? Look for for the following features in future releases: • Comprehensive bug fixes • Support for searching attributes other than student names • Simple display of results integral to the widget. Matching students' name, school, and picture will be displayed in a drop-down drawer, and when clicked, will link to their profile pafge in Safari. Limitations • The first search of each session results in the display of notification that browser acceptance of cookies is off and must be turned on. Unknown cause at the current time. The workaround is to repeat the search after display of this facebook "cookie" page. • The facebook search widget currently searches only the names of students in the facebook community. Interests, AIM, email, and other details are not searchable at this time.