Kansas based Blogfuse is a Facebook application creator for bloggers that allows content from blogs to be turned into a native Facebook application.
The service is as simple to use as signing up and adding a RSS feed. Blogfuse hosts the application and it links in to Facebook functions such as share this, allowing blog posts to be easily shared within Facebook. Applications are coded in Facebook’s FBML code and not flash, delivering a visually seamless application.
Blogfuse also doesn’t believe that users should be locked into their service; should a user decide later that they want to host their Facebook application themselves, switching is simply a matter of changing the app’s Callback Url, meaning you never lose a user or have to start again.
Blogfuse offers full hosting for the app irrelevant of the traffic each app has. Packages start at $5/ month for one blog up to $30/ month for 10 blogs.
Thanks to Blogfuse we have twenty lifetime “Pro Blogger” packages (ten blogs each) to give away to TechCrunch readers. Tell us in the comments why you want your own Facebook Application (include a real email when making the comment in the email box, it won’t be published but we’ll need it to send you the code) and we’ll select twenty of the best comments for a free account.
And don’t forget, if you’re looking for invites to other services, visit InviteShare.
I want try that, because i’m geek
Why I should get my own facebook application:
1. Being the first commenter on this story
2. Because it should help increase my blog’s readership
3. Help me make a slight mark for myself in the world (some day kids will be taught in history books that ziked.com was the first blog with its own facebook application.
4. Because I am pretty young. So a life time package would be utilized more efficiently by me (since hopefully I’ll live more than most of the older readers)
5. Because I need to tell people about things they are missing out (like networking with their real friends in real life)
6. Because I am a crazy diamond
7. Because the best gift I got for Christmas was a giftcard to a preppy clothing store (it starts with an H)
8. Because it’s about time some one paid me back for clicking the ads on this site
Since I have started using Facebook and have been cross-posting (basically posting a link) I have seen an increase in traffic to my blog. I would love to make the process even easier and think this app sounds like just the ticket to making it seamless and easy. Anything that makes life easier and helps increase traffic to my blog is great in my book.
FaceBook is just the right place to get exposure for our new products.
Our product is new and we need FaceBook application to keep in touch with our users in providing and getting feedforward and feedback with them.
Moreover, with the mass user base facebook has, it definitely is a viral marketing which we can utilize in our marketing strategy.
Therefore to be able to deliver our content out to users out there, facebook application of our own is definitely needed.
I would like one, because I am an avid facebook user, and I am trying to create a usefull blog for medical proffesionals around the world who are in the facebook community.
Thanks in advance!
Because I have a new blog starting soon that could really use that kind of publicity.
Once again Techcrunch giving us a break!
1. I have a passion for Blogging and I take it seriously but I have fun doing it!
2. I mainly blog about Geography and technology and services that are available for local audiences. Reason why to find a targeted audience is a hell of task, will be easier to target geography through an application that reach readers by networks, I even lauched a site based geography Yample.com so the passion is true.
3. I read Techcrunch almost everyday!
Love you guys! The force be with you…
Why do I want my own Facebook app? If I win the package you can read the answer on my first Facebook blog post!
Because I’m about to launch a nearly identical product and I need to know whether or not I should be sleeping at night.
“Applications are coded in Facebook’s FBML code and not flash, delivering a visually seamless application.”
Could you connect the first clause to your conclusion?
I have created a new dynamic website that allows visitors to learn about freedom oriented candidates and incumbents for federal and state congressional seats. I am building a facebook app that integrates with this Django application so that facebook users can offer feedback about our candidate ratings.
The site includes a blog at http://LibertyC...gress.org/blog/ but I had not planned on making a facebook appl for that because I am using the third party BlogMaker Django code for that. I would like the BlogFuse account so that my site can be fully available on facebook. The advantage for BlogFuse is that this account will be a proof of concept that BlogMaker users (and probably most other Django-based blogs) can easily take advantage of BlogFuse to expand their blog’s reach into the facebook realm.
I think being one of the first 20 commenters and the fact I write a lot about facebook and other social networking technologies would make me a good fit.
I do think this is a clever way to sell a service.
Because I’m foolish enough to ridicule myself with this humilliating comment?
Somewhat because of facebook notes and such I stopped really blogging (it’s a bit weird to make a new note/s every day), and I’d love to start it again in “proper” blog form. Also, due to blog subscription normally being limited to only that site’s users (for instance, my friend uses Livejournal; I used to use blogger; we couldn’t keep up with each other as easily as we can with facebook’s friend list), this would be a way better option, since all my contacts use facebook, and sadly enough not all know how to use an RSS reader.
I mean, really, I just want an app I’ll actually use, as opposed to the 50-something idiotic invitations I currently have to become a vampire/ninja/pirate/whatever-the-heck-else. Thanks for the chance.
Because I can easily put things to rhyme:
Pick me Pick me
Sure could use the Gift
Pick me Pick me
My blog just needs a Lift!
Because I’m a Big Fan of FREE + last i checked there wasn’t anything under the Christmas Tree for me this Year from TechCrunch!
Peace*
As more business contacts move to Facebook, it’s a perfect environment for my company, The Radical Clarity Group, to blog about the importance of priority-driven story in creating a successful business. We are a startup and the exposure could significantly help our business.
This would be a great app to help increase traffic to my Mustang Blog.
I would really like one. Because it’s a pro account, I could also host some of my friend’s blog. The top 10 reason I want a account:
1. I would blog about it
2. I would really want to try other blog application for facebook instead of flog blog, because flog blog did not fix a simple bug 3 months after I reported it.
3. Give some the other 9 blogs to others can dramatically increase my popularity
4. I want to have a lifetime(possibly 6 generations) experiment on “how long does it take for a lifetime product find out my grandson’s grandson is using it to blog about cats?”
5. I’m a devoted facebook user who does not cyberstalking
6. most commenters are using wordpress… let me test Blogfuse’s support for Drupal.
7. most commenter had their Christmas gifts, I had few SAT prep tests
8. I will test if blogfuse can handle extremely broken Engrish and UTF-8
I would like to use Blogfuse to get more readers on FaceBook for my blog on the death penalty in Texas. One program we have is an alternative spring break and it would be useful for us to be able to get more readers from FaceBook’s large student base of users.
stopexecutions.blogspot.com
springbreakalternative.org
Hi Duncan,
My name is Chen Fang. I am a Sophomore college student at Harvard. This past summer a fellow classmate of mine and I started developing a project called “Ladder to Heaven”. Simply put — it is (will be) the first place on the web to post good deeds about yourself and about others. Once a deed is posted, the community will then have the ability to “Praise” or “Scorn” the submission like Digg. Here’s an excerpt from our official about page:
“Every day, people are doing great things for other people. With every passing minute, people are performing incredible acts of kindness, selflessness, and generosity, whether these actions are planned or completely random. But often these deeds go unnoticed; we are too easily preoccupied with all the bad see all the good in our world.
With this in mind, our site, Ladder To Heaven (www.laddertoheaven.com), will give people the opportunity to document their own good deeds and the deeds of others. User’s will be able to post and praise deeds, bringing the righteousness of human nature to the foreground of society. We hope that with our website, readers will have a more positive opinion about mankind, and will be inspired to perform noble deeds of their own.”
Our infrastructure is built on Pligg but was heavily modded to allow for additional features like — submitting deeds about other people, a special ranking/points system, the inclusion of a “ladder” on the profile page, and etc. Although the service has not been officially launched, we do have a working version up for a team of beta testers. We’re aiming to push the project out the door sometime in January.
The reason why our team would love to have a free BlogFuse Pro account is because we want to publicize our blog “Top of the Ladder” on Facebook via an easy and affordable way. Right now, this blog simply serves as a place to update users about our closed beta testing progress — after launch, however, this blog will be a vital part of the LadderToHeaven network. It will serve as the official place for us to highlight the best deeds people have submitted on a daily basis. Subscribers to Top of the Ladder will receive a stream of inspirational stories about the latest hits on Ladder To Heaven. With a Facebook app version of Top of the Ladder, Facebook users will have a convenient way of reading the most praised stories.
A lifetime Pro Blogger account from BlogFuse would mean a lot to our team. As a TechCrunch reader since winter of 2005, I have been a devout fan from the start.
Thanks for your consideration,
Chen Fang
Please check out our blog at:
http://blog.laddertoheaven.com
.. and if you’re interested, please enter your email at:
http://www.laddertoheaven.com
.. to get notified about our launch.
ahhh… pressed submit before I finish the top 10…>.
I would like to get one of the Blogfuse invites because I am a fledgling blog, and I have been searching for a way to increase my readership. I honestly think (obviously) that Blogfuse is a program that would dynamically allow me to increase my readership.
Why else? because I always come to tech-crunch for all of my “techie” needs. I’ve even linked to tech crunch articles on my sports business blog (if that doesn’t show dedication to tech crunch, I don’t know what does…tech and sports business don’t cross paths as often as one would think). Why else? I am already a fairly well connected facebook user, so I would be able to utilize a facebook app better than some others.
Thanks for the consideration.
Because I am 40 and this is the only way I can pwoned these leet 22 year olds who have 28 apps installed and live on facebook. 8>P
I think this is a great way to increase traffic to my blog. Why did not somebody thought of this earlier. Concept sounds great but need to see how this works in actual use.
By the way, I think TechCrunch is pretty ingenious to use “twenty lifetime “Pro Blogger” packages” as bait for readers to summit comments.
I would like an invite, as I missed out on the free book offer recently …
We are interested in. We have been trying to connect Japan/Asia information to English readers so it will be also good for blogfuse guys to check if and how their service can be internationalized, localized if we played it from different caltural/language point of views, as Facebook itself is already thinking multi-lingualization.
let’s see. why me. easy.
Its 8:55 on a friday night and here i am. commenting on a tech blog.
My blog is essentially about my struggle with women around the concept trying to score a date (errrr… my lack of dating). I blog over a vox which has a community of people who all read one another but i’ve exhausted that scene. I’d like to stay inside of vox while still expanding my social reach. Thus, getting inside fb would let me get in-front of more ladies without altering my pattern. Any application which actually has a chance at raising the opportunity for getting out on a friday night totally has my attention.
nuff said.
Pick me for the free invite because I am the only one here willing to admit that I’m too much of a cheap ass to pay $5 a month.
Can I please have one I will link to techcrunch im a avid lover of the site you guys rock
This would be a great way for me to test how good blogfuse is and write an analysis on it.
I would like to make a blog about techcrunch and other tech site may I please have a invite btw love the site
I blog very often, but am not able to garner the attention to my personal network. I have been trying to think of a means of making my blog available through facebook and have been mapping out potential strategies. Blogfuse sounds very compelling and I’d like the opportunity to capture my personal audience.
becuase i’m worth it (french accent and all)
This would be amazing, after I graduated high school in Washington state I left for school in NYC, leaving behind all of my friends and family in WA. Living in NYC is one of the most amazing things and the only way I can share it is from my blog. I use my HTC Phone and throughout the day I take pictures and write different events down on my blog so my family can keep track of me. However, that really only covers one side of the story, if I was able to share these same things in facebook, it would allow me to share my experience with all of my friends on facebook, which would be amazing and would and it would allow me to stay in better contact with people a country away. PS when you go to my blog for some reason if you type in “www” before it, it does not work.. so you must leave out the “www”s
I don’t want an invitation, because I couldn’t make an app in facebook to save my life. I’m a writer no matter how much I *want* to be a coder.
But will you let us know the 20 that got chosen? I’d love to see if Frank Nguyen gets it for being hilarious, or if it was just the first 20 that asked.
Inquiring minds and all that. Plus, I read the blog on a regular basis…so you totally owe me. (You know that was a joke, right?)
Why wouldn’t you give me a shot at this is a much better question? I think it would be fun to have my own facebook application, because I am just a typical human sitting behind a computer. I am not a designer, programmer, or intelligent commentator. I am just a guy, and who doesn’t like to hear from the ramblings of the average man?
Now if you think average is boring, and commentary on life is even more boring, I can grant you the fact, that my story may interest some people. For example, I am an American living in Quito, teaching technology to preschool Jewish kids. Perked your interest? The stories I come back with are pretty zany, and I think people would like to hear more from the serial.
Other reasons why you should give it to me? I would buy you a drink if I knew you, and your blog is read 100% by me (via Google Reader.)
I am also sure there are things we agree on. Things like Nazis are evil, computers are neat, and reading boring rambling commentary makes our own lives seem less depressing.
Oh yeah, PLEASE, give me one.
Hey,
My name is Brett Harrison. As is my partner Chen Fang, I am also a sophomore at Harvard University. As Chen has already mentioned, we are starting LadderToHeaven.com with a mission of bringing joy and goodwill to all people through the deeds of others. LadderToHeaven will highlight good deeds of people as opposed to the discouraging and pessimistic news stories that are posted on most pligg/digg sites. We hope to really start something special with this site, and I am posting in hopes of using your app to spread notice of our website to the college and high school community.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Brett Harrison
******
Please check out our blog at:
http://blog.laddertoheaven.com
Hi Duncan,
My name is Chen Fang. I am a Sophomore college student at Harvard. This past summer a fellow classmate of mine and I started developing a project called “Ladder to Heaven”. Simply put — it is (will be) the first place on the web to post good deeds about yourself and about others. Once a deed is posted, the community will then have the ability to “Praise” or “Scorn” the submission like Digg.
Our infrastructure is built on Pligg but was heavily modded to allow for additional features like — submitting deeds about other people, a special ranking/points system, the inclusion of a “ladder” on the profile page, and etc. Although the service has not been officially launched, we do have a working version up for a team of beta testers. We’re aiming to push the project out the door sometime in January.
The reason why our team would love to have a free BlogFuse Pro account is because we want to publicize our blog “Top of the Ladder” on Facebook via an easy and affordable way. Right now, this blog simply serves as a place to update users about our closed beta testing progress — after launch, however, this blog will be a vital part of the LadderToHeaven network. It will serve as the official place for us to highlight the best deeds people have submitted on a daily basis. Subscribers to Top of the Ladder will receive a stream of inspirational stories about the latest hits on Ladder To Heaven. With a Facebook app version of Top of the Ladder, Facebook users will have a convenient way of reading the most praised stories.
A lifetime Pro Blogger account from BlogFuse would mean a lot to our team. As a TechCrunch reader since winter of 2005, I have been a devout fan from the start.
Thanks for your consideration,
Chen Fang
(sorry for the repost, my last comment was held for moderation because it was too long)
A Blogfuse Facebook app will help me raise the final $320 I need for 23andMe’s genome decode service.
number of people on facebook = number of people on the internet + 1
Great entries and keep them coming. We’ll pick the winners after 5pm PST Saturday
I’m one of those guys you mention in the article that got locked into a service and now I’m stuck! This would help more than I can ever express in my comments.
I have several hundred subscribers and growing. The more it grows however, the more frustrated I’ve become over what little control I have.
Lacking the funds necessary to hire a developer and the knowledge to do it myself (believe me I tried), this is an incredible opportunity.
Thanks!
I’m not going to say that I need it because my blog needs the traffic like most other people are doing…
Facebook is for sharing information within your circle of friends and the blogfuse service just makes it easier to disseminate info to that circle and for your friends to spread that information even further if they want. I think it would be amazing to be able to use blogfuse to make my blog content more available to my friends. A few days ago, I came across a story about this service and I almost bought a subscription, but while putting myself through college my disposable income is a bit scarce…so I thought “there is now ay I will ever be able to consistently pay to promote my blog on facebook!”
But now, it seems there might be a way! So anyway, I want to use blogfuse not to exponentially increase my traffic but just to make it easier for my friends to share my content!
Thanks,
Andrew
Aloha, I am part of a non profit, but one leveraging web2.0. We have a whole family of blog content coming out in two weeks that would be perfect for this application. Our site is focused on allowing people to register, Digg-style, their personal commitments, read content focused on improving Hawaii (our focus), and shortly campaigns. You gotta pick at least one non profit to get an account ; ).
Best wishes all for a crunchy new year!
Currently own over 10 websites and develop many open source application, and have developed many both open source application and freewares. It would be really useful for our entire team of 45 developers here. Please provide us with the account.
regards
daya
Because I am about to take the big jump and turn the social media, something that has so far just been a hobby for me, into my main source of income.
I quit my job a couple of weeks ago and from January 1st I will be the boss of my own company.
My new blog will be up and running shortly, so it would be great to be able to add this blog to my Facebook profile.
I have already been checking out the program several times the last couple of days, and it is already on my list of must-haves.
Wish me luck!
Yojibee
Hi There-
I’m the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization that is working with a number of other advocacy groups to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
I want to use Blogfuse to promote my group’s blog, which is in turn a clearinghouse for important Darfur action alerts and news. For months now I’ve been trying to develop a Facebook application to promote political action for Darfur (I’ve been trying to make something that has functional resemblances to the Obama ‘08 Facebook application — help me Chris Hughes!), but limited time and money and other priorities have gotten in the way of actually releasing and promoting a good product.
Grassroots activism and e-advocacy is effective re: this particular issue. To mention one example, President Bush (in Feb. 2006) started formally supporting a multinational peacekeeping deployment to Darfur after receiving substantial pressure (via call-in campaigns and rallies, etc. that were virally marketed online) from ordinary citizens around the U.S. This was big news, since previous to this the White House had tried to frame genocide in Sudan as “an African problem with an African solution.”
A Blogfuse account would allow my group and other Darfur groups to tap into Facebook’s giant audience very quickly. If only 1% of Facebook’s total user base followed our blog action alerts on a semi-occasional basis, even this would be a substantial achievement for the Darfur movement. Ultimately, I know tools like Facebook can be a force for great good. I know Facebook can be used effectively to help the millions of Darfuri men, women, and children whose lives hang on a thread right now.
Thanks for your consideration!
Nikki Serapio
Americans Against the Darfur Genocide
http://www.ourpledge.org
I need this so bad, as I’m about to quit my job to become a full time blogger, and Facebook = traffic = revenue = food on my 18 month old son’s table. I guess you’ll kind of be his God parents, and he will love you forever for it. Cute photos available on request.
comes from a not rich family plus the currency exchange problem problem that makes 1 USD is equal to 3.4 our currencies. To pay for such big maintenance every month is a bit hard for me.
I’m a bloggers that hard to earn every month. The readership is just starting to grow while if I got this opp of blogfuse it will be a great gift for the coming 2008.
Hmm..how about a trade betwee the account and a blog review?