Today I am launching my first website http://Printingfacebook.com in conjunction with "The Social Network" movie release. Though I am working on several printed products that use data from social networks and blogging platforms, I decided to make a unique url for this single product and test the water a bit. The product is a "friend poster" made up of all your friends' profile pictures.<p>I would love to get some feedback on the idea, and on the implementation.<p>Also if anyone has any insight on getting some press or getting covered on various blogs, please impart your wisdom. I'm pretty new to this. Which blogs should I reach out to and what angle of the site is most compelling. I made the site to try to offset the costs of my graduate program.<p>thanks! and enjoy the "trailer" video. It's a spoof off of the social network theatrical trailer.<p>Benjamin Lotan
It's a great idea but I would expect a letter from Facebook's lawyers regarding the use of the name 'Facebook' in your product (you use the API, so that's against their terms of use) and the use of their logo in your logo. Good luck!
I think the idea is great and site looks very nice. Only problem I see is the name "printingfacebook.com" as it may cause some branding issues with facebook.
Can't order as a non-US but some suggestions.
Please check the default options so user can go through first step in one click.
IMO Small margin, White background can be the default options.
Great idea though. Looking forward for other products.
Good luck! I can't find the recent discussion around a C&D someone got because they had the word book in their URL. So I might be a little worried if I were you about using "facebook" in your URL.
Great idea, I might buy a poster as a gift :)<p>But, as mentioned by others, save yourself from legal hassles and change your domain name - PrintingFB, PrintYourFriends, FriendsOnPaper..... and all of these are available
The song on the video is rather wonderful! It's a cover of Radiohead's Creep by Scala:<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=evG2DDmSdxM" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=evG2DDmSdxM</a>
whoa... nice angle. I wouldn't buy it myself, but it seems plausible that lots of people would.<p>One thing: consider slightly different angles on this. For instance, a mosaic of all photos in which a person is tagged. And/or in which their friends are tagged. Furthermore, you could break this down into years, such that a person could have one poster for 2010, buy another one next year for 2011, etc. etc.<p>Also, think about the corporate angle here: I'm sure corporations would live this kind of thing... visual represenatations of the community who connect with them on FB. Hopefully you could sell premium versions to corporations to hang in their foyers: larger, better quality finish, whatever (you'd know better than I). Good luck :D