We're now on Facebook! I said - WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK!

Hello and Happy Holidays everyone!

One of the long-time goals of Remembered.com was to get tightly integrated with Facebook. (If you call 18 months a long time, and in technology 18 months is a lifetime...) We designed the site specifically so it would fit into the 720px Facebook wrapper. Heck, Last week we even redesigned this BLOG so it would fit into the Facebook wrapper. We're simply gluttons for punishment, what can I say?

Our goal was to create a hybrid website. Something that could work as a standalone website AND as a Facebook application. Early on we debated going with the IFrame or rewriting Remembered.com in FBML (Facebook Markup Language). We agonized over learning FBML, especially after we were just getting our hands dirty with Joomla and PHP. Our site probably seems fairly simple from the outside - but Remembered.com has a LOT of moving parts - Registration, Shopping Cart, Invite Module, Photo Gallery, Emails, Comments, etc. that all have to talk to each other - correctly.

Can you imagine having to maintain TWO versions of each? One in PHP and one in FBML? By detecting your FB wrapper it determine's which one to run? Luckily - we didn't go that way. Everything today is served up to you in a single format AND works within the context of the Facebook app. WHEW!

I have give a TON of credit to Adolfo and Ivan for keeping a lot of balls in the air and delivering a superb product to the market. They have given 110%, learned new technology in days instead of weeks, and pushed the envelope with our development partners to make this a great website.

So here we are... Out there and ready to rock. Find us on http://apps.facebook.com/beremembered/

Thanks for all your support and Happy Holidays!

Andy, Ivan, and Adolfo...

Blogs! Blogs! Blogs!

I found this handy article on Ereleases.com about ten great places to post your blog... click here
Before doing so I would definitely get a Feedburner account as it makes the process a lot simpler.

So keep an eye out for us on Bloggapaedia and Technorati real soon!

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Doing something special for #WorldAIDSDay

Hiya,

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and there's a lot we all have to be thankful for. It's been awhile since we've last posted and there's been a lot of development here at Remembered.com in the last few weeks. But before talking about what we've done, let me tell you a bit about what we are doing for World AIDS Day.

AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. And although it may not be in the limelight like it once was - AIDS is still a very much here and taking lives much too early.

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. For this reason, we are offering Free Memorials for anyone who has been lost to AIDS or HIV complications for the entire month of December. Details here:

You can help spread the word and bring about more AIDS/HIV awareness by posting this on your Facebook status:

#WorldAidsDay - World AIDS day is TODAY! Paste this message to your status - Help us build HIV/AIDS Awareness. http://bit.ly/ihgJa6

Okay - now onto our latest developments for Remembered.com ...

• We've put in place a new firewall to protect against DOS attacks and bad people on the internets.
• We've added a Memorial Wall, which lets invited friends and family post comments and condolences
• We've upgrade our Facebook Connection and are able to take advantage of Facebook's more powerful API features and functions.
• We've added a new activity list, which shows all the activity associated with a memorial.
• We've integrated Remembered.com even more with Facebook, allowing activities to stream over.

Hopefully you like everything we've accomplished so far, and if you have any suggestions be sure to
let us know about them here... http://remembered.com/suggestions

Thanks!