Publish Your Photosynth to Facebook

Last week at the Real Estate Connect Conference, I did a full hour-long presentation of Photosynth diving into the details of how it works, how to create a Photosynth and how to embed your Photosynth into your applications. In conjunction with my Bing Maps presentations, Aaron Sloman, CEO of speakTech showed off “MySynth” a new Facebook application for publishing Photosynth right onto your Facebook profile page.

To jump right in, feel free to skip to the MySynth application page to begin publishing your Photosynths to your Facebook page.

Once you find the Photosynth you want to publish, simply complete the form on the application page. The Title can be anything you want. You can choose to use the name of the Synth itself from the site or make up your own. Next, put in the URI string from the Photosynth site. You can get the URI from landing on the actual synth page (out of the address bar) or my clicking the EMBED tag (the little <> carrots) on the page. Next, add an URI to the thumbnail. This is a little trickier for the novice, but I went to the user’s collection of Synths, right clicked on the respective thumbnail of the Synth, view the image properties, copied the URI from there and pasted it in. The Thumbnail Description, again can be anything you want, but you may be best off to just copy the content from the site. Same goes for the long description. The location is a bit trickier. If there is a globe icon on the Photosynth page, that means that it has been georeferenced and you can sort of reverse figure it out for yourself. It you uploaded the Synth yourself, you obviously know where the Synth belongs in this world and can enter it yourself. Add a URI for more information – in this case I put the Real Estate Agent’s web site URI. Finally, check the boxes for if you want to add MySynth to your application tabs and if you want to publish the Synth in your Facebook feed. Before you can publish to your feed, you have to grant the application the ability to publish posts or comments, so remember to click the link and configure that before you continue. Click “Add Synth” and BOOM! you’re done.

 Once you’ve finished, your thumbnail will appear on your profile page with a link to a Facebook page which has the Photosynth embedded right in it.

To learn more about Photosynth, read my latest blog entry on the subject, “Photosynth Goes Commercial with New Features.” 

CP