Alive! Facebook application with OpenLaszlo
If you have a Facebook account, check out the Alive! Facebook application. Alive! tries to help us change our diet and physical activity behavior:
Project Alive! is an 'intervention' system integrated with Facebook, that is designed to help you make small changes in your diet and physical activity behaviors. The program consists of 12 weekly email messages that are tailored to YOUR current lifestyle and to YOUR preferences.
Here's a screenshot of Alive!, and it looks like I still have to improve my diet and physical behavior a lot (ok, I used the neat function to skip the initial question and have the form filled out with random values).
What was the motivation to build a Facebook version of Alive?
We have completed the programming and in late July will launch Alive as an application on Facebook. In this case the target population is individual consumers. The initial screening questionnaire and instant feedback will be available free to all. After receiving the feedback, those who wish to participate in the 12-week program will pay only $10. With 30 million Facebook members, and the viral nature of these communities, we could make a contribution to public health and also generate considerable revenue from this channel. (you can read the complete article here)
A nice example of how you can embed OpenLaszlo applications and widgets into existing websites and social networking systems. Don Hopkins, one of the very old friends of the OpenLaszlo project has been working on this application. Don built the OpenLaszlo YouTube demo applications as well.
You'll find more information about Alive! and NutritionQuest, the company behind Alive! here.