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Facebook Application Development

  • The wildly popular Facebook social networking platform has published an open Application Programming Interface (API) and developers are eating it up--60,000 signed up to use it in the first few days; with this API, any programmer can create applications and new features for Facebook
  • Explores and explains the components available to programmers, including working with Facebook Markup Language (FBML), querying Facebook with FQL, application layout and flow, advanced configuration and performance tuning, and more
  • Businesses such as NBC, Yahoo!, Red Bull, Forbes, and the Washington Post are building branded applications to reach the growing Facebook community

Biography

Nick Gerakines is a software engineer at Yahoo! in San Francisco, California where he works on del.icio.us and contributes to numerous other projects and Facebook applications. In addition, he has written several Facebook applications of his own, including the popular I Play WoW application. He is an active member of the Facebook developer community and writes frequently on the topic. He lives in Mountain View, California with his wife, Carolyn, and daughter, Vanessa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Understanding the Facebook Platform.

Chapter 1: Facebook as a Platform.

Chapter 2: Building Your First Application.

Chapter 3: Facebook Markup Language (FBML).

Chapter 4: Advanced FBML.

Chapter 5: Using the Facebook API.

Chapter 6: Data Mining with FQL.

Chapter 7: Authentication.

Part II: Building Facebook Applications.

Chapter 8: Resources for Developers.

Chapter 9: Doing More with Hello World.

Chapter 10: External Application Development.

Chapter 11: Best Practices.

Appendix A: PHP File Reference.

Index.

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