April 08, 2008 Facebook Here We Come

12:03am by Lijen (Site)

I know I know, it’s been a long long time since I’ve posted any updates about the site. Bad Lijen. Getting a little anxious are we? Heres a little update on what Jas & I have been spending the last 3 laborious months of our lives doing; and no, its not just sitting on our bums playing Rock Band, watching South Park, and eating cheese (although we tend to do a bit of that too…).

As many of you probably already know, during the past 3 months we’ve diverted all our attention toward developing our new … drum roll please ... vDream facebook application! You should expect to see a working version at the end of April. We’re really excited to roll this out! At this point I’m guessing that most of you have heard of vDream and know that it is this mysterious car website that we’ve been working on for quite a while now, but don’t really know any details (I guess you could call it “What is the Matrix?” marketing). The facebook application will be a lite version of the main site and should give you a solid idea of the vDream vision and the kind of experience we want to bring to car enthusiasts on the web.

Unlike most facebook apps that use generic facebook styles, our app is going to have a CSCI (crazy sexy custom interface). We think that our CSCI, great car illustrations, and comprehensive real-world part database will differentiate us from the 2 billion other car applications on facebook. The app is also entirely build on RESTful web services thanks to Ruby on Rails (sorry if I got a little too nerdy there. I can’t help myself sometimes…). What this means to the layman is that if it is successful, we’ll be able to port it over to other 3rd party application platforms such as MySpace and Bebo apps with relative ease.

I’ve attached a screen shot of the CSCI that you can expect to see more of at the end of the month. What’d I tell ya? Pretty sexy ey?