Building Facebook Applications For Dummies®

There’s no doubt about it — Facebook is cool. Along with users who want to interact with friends, businesses are using Facebook as a marketing and networking tool. And if you’re a Web developer, you probably know there’s a demand for Facebook applications. If you have some basic knowledge of Web client technology, such as HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, and know how to use a Web programming language, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is just what you need to start building apps for Facebook.

This friendly guide helps you create applications to reach Facebook’s huge audience, so you can enlarge your list of friends, introduce people to your product or service, or network with other business professionals. You’ll find out how to:

Work with the Facebook API
Build applications that take advantage of Facebook’s News Feed and Wall
Migrate existing Web applications to Facebook
Create mobile apps for Facebook
Use Facebook’s markup and query languages
Get your app noticed by Facebook users

A handy companion Web site includes code samples, starter applications, and other useful information about building Facebook apps. Whether you want to create applications for business purposes or just for fun, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get started.

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Title of ebook: Building Facebook Applications For Dummies®
ISBN: 9780470388686
parent-ISBN: 9780470277959
Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 342
Published: 06-2008
Released online for download: 06-02-2008
Author of eBook: Wagner, Richard PhD

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Building Facebook Applications For Dummies

Chapter One

Introducing Facebook and the Facebook Platform

In This Chapter

* Getting to know Facebook

* Exploring the Facebook Platform

* Understanding what the Facebook API, FBML, FQL, and FBJS are

* Figuring out where to get online developer information

We hear all of the time about "platforms" in various walks of life. Political parties put their policies and agendas into documents called platforms. An Olympic diver performs a perfect dive off of a 10 meter platform on the way to a gold medal. Heck, platform tennis is a form of tennis that people play with paddles.

Facebook too has its own platform - cleverly called the Facebook Platform. Fortunately for your coworkers, it is a platform that you don't need a swimsuit or a paddle to use. You do need to know a Web programming language such as PHP or Java, however.

Facebook gained popularity because of its structured environment and social network, but its Facebook Platform is proving to be a critical means ... read full excerpt from: Building Facebook Applications For Dummies® ebook

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