Pimp Your Ride... er, Facebook Email?

so again, maybe i just missed this earlier... or not? 

i remember seeing "add a link" at the bottom of the Compose Message dialog, and then "add a video" & "add music", but i didn't really stop to consider how those buttons had gotten there. 

then i noticed the "Send a HotList Gift" button tonight, and i realized the Facebook Apps i've added were somehow able to modify the default Compose Message function in Facebook.  (right?  gotta be, can't see any other way that happened... but i don't remember seeing an app opt-out setting to "let this app modify your Compose Message functionality", so i'm guessing it's built-in?)

hmm, interesting.  so do i really want to Pimp My Ride Facebook Email? 

what do you folks think -- innovation or overkill?

(and what happens when 50 apps try to add their button to the bottom of my email message?  guess the market will self-correct, but still...?)

Comments

[Rodney Rumford]

The music bling was there about a week or so ago. I have never seen an opt out message/option. I initially thought that this might have been something that facebook did on a biz dev level and allowed specific apps these rights. Not quite sure.

I find it annoying.

Rodney Rumford

[djsurge]

I think it's a good idea, if you want people to use the application might as well remind them when they're doing something that can be supplemented by your widget.

This happens in other software already.
When you insert a flash card into your computer every application that consumes jpgs (picasa, windows, adobe, flickr, etc.) wants to be the one that processes them. So when I write a message and I have widget that has messaging functionality, makes sense that the widget writer would want to remind me.

As long as there's an option somewhere to get rid of it, I say all good.

Cheers,
Sergei

[Jeff Jolma]

Yes, any facebook app you have added can add one of these. There might be a setting to disable this but I haven't seen it.

[Andrew]

As more and more of these get added on my Facebook starts feeling more and more like MySpace - hundreds of different developers adding buttons and apps that don't coincide with Facebook's over all design. Will most users care? Probably not.

[Peter C]

Dave-
I was chatting with the Hot Or Not guys (makers of HotList) and I recall they mentioned that you could do this with the API. I haven't done it myself ..yet.

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