Facebook Spotlight – Facebook Mobile Hack Hong Kong
filed in HTML5 on Apr.01, 2012 (10次檢視)
The facebook team has organized The Facebook Mobile Platform Global Hacks Roadshow in Europe and Asia this March. Luckily, Hong Kong is one of their station in Asia
It’s a golden chance for me to demonstrate my creativity and show off my hack skills.
The idea of Facebook Spotlight is actually inspired by my girl friend, who is actually a frequent facebook users. However, she always finds it difficult to spot out some previous posts in facebook. I guess that is highly related to the weakness of the facebook search bar now. The current facebook search bar only allows you to search users by name, to search pages or events by title. The words inside contents, such as comments and photo titles, are actually not indexed. So why not let me try to make a hack and enhance the search function! And amazingly, our idea was acknowledged by the judges and we got “The best use of open graph” award.
I really have to say thank you to HTML5 for this hack. Without HTML5′s Web Workers and Web DB storage, our idea won’t be feasible. The Web Workers helps us to speed up the indexing performance using parallel processing. Then the Web DB helps to solve the permanent storage of indexed data. We proved that client side indexing is made possible with HTML5 in this hack.
Please read my slides below so that you can understand more about what facebook spotlight is about:

Our hack – facebook spotlight

My cool team members – Stanley Ng, Steve Ng, Me and Hon

Demo time!


