A group of developers and designers have created a way for users to export their Facebook data — updates, photos, the works — and turn it into a themed mini-blog.Talented Facebook designer Rob Goodlatte and a small crew of other Facebook designer/developers spent some time working with Facebook’s new Open Graph API at an internal company hackathon and created a few simple, functional themes and import options for a ton of your Facebook content. They call it Facebook.me, and it’s the answer to a lot of prayers for a more customized approach to Facebook data.
Here’s how it works: You connect the app to your Facebook account, then you allow the app to publish posts, comments, photos and other items. Your items are imported, then you can play around with the themes to get the look and feel you like best. Right now, three themes are available: The very Web-2.0 Rush, the magazine-like Photostream and the visually rich Glide. Check them out below.
Goodlatte also demonstrated the app for us at f8, the Facebook developer conference — we’ve embedded the vid at the bottom of this post.
What do you think? Should Facebook make this nifty tool an official feature of the site? Would you like to see (and use) more apps like this that are built on the Open Graph API?
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