[chewbranca]

I'm building an open source rails framework to create sub-communities on facebook that are focused on a particular interest, but also providing other views into the app, such as a standard web interface, phone interface, and iphone/android native apps. Facebook connect provides you with some interesting options for taking elements out of facebook and using them in other places, and really allows you to build one application and treat facebook as a view format rather than a completely separate entity.

I'm also building in some cool functionality to bring widgets into the app, where you can build out your pages based on what widgets you are interested in, similar to widgets in wordpress admin or igoogle.