* 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 Product Details * Pub. Date: May 2008 * Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated * Format: Paperback, 340pp * Sales Rank: 778, 850 * Series: Programmer to Programmer Series * ISBN-13: 9780470246665 * ISBN: 0470246669 Biography…

Facebook is one of the hottest websites in today’s world, and is having a major impact on career and business. This book explains the different parts of Facebook and helps you understand how you can get the most out of your Facebook account. It helps you understand what you could or should do in Facebook to further your career, business, or job. This book will help you come up with your own action strategy to get value out of Facebook. It will help you understand the possibilities with Facebook to figure out you can do to optimize the use of this tool. The intended audience includes professionals interested in their careers, marketers, business owners, and anyone involved in promoting a cause (personal or business) through new, hot technologies. Contains a foreword by Lee Lorenzen and an afterword by Robert Scoble Product Details * Pub. Date: February 2008 * Publisher: Happy About * Format:…

With more than 250 million active users, Facebook is the world’s #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world’s most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential Facebook Development offers insider guidance and up-to-the-minute best practices for the entire application lifecycle: design, coding, testing, distribution, post-launch monitoring, metrics, and even application marketing. Using extensive real-world examples, John Maver and Cappy Popp reveal why some Facebook applications succeed brilliantly while others fail. Next, they walk through building a complete application using every major component of the Facebook platform. Maver and Popp thoroughly cover Facebook’s most important new features, including Facebook Connect, and provide extensive…

Facebook Me! Group on Facebookound the water cooler—but you’re not sure what it’s all about. Relax and join in. There are more than 110 million members of Facebook these days, and adults are the fastest-growing segment of users. And it’s about more than just kid stuff; Facebook can actually be a good business tool as well as a great way to promote creative projects. In Facebook Me! Dave Awl shows you around the newly redesigned Facebook and helps you take full advantage of all it has to offer, while helping you avoid some of its pitfalls. • Find out what you can do on Facebook, and what it can do for you. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones, let your friends know what you’re up to, send greetings, share photos or video, or just goof around with applications like SuperPoke. • Learn Facebook etiquette: how and why to friend someone, how to socialize politely, and whether…

Creating Facebook Applications – 100 Success Secrets To Creating Awesome Facebook Applications And Leverage Social Media. Product Details Harness the Power of Social Networking with Facebook Applications: Everything you need to know to build a Facebook application, If you are interested in or getting started with building Facebook applications, then this book is for you. Facebook is taking the world by storm! With more than 100 million connected users and an open platform that allows developers to have full access to those users, you now have one of the most powerful opportunities ever to put your web app in front of thousands, even millions in little time. This jam-packed book covers the very basics you need to get started in the Facebook platform for developers. In this book you’ll learn how your apps talk to Facebook, how Facebook talks back, where to find the information you need, viral…

With more than 250 million active users, Facebook is the world’s #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world’s most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential Facebook Development offers insider guidance and up-to-the-minute best practices for the entire application lifecycle: design, coding, testing, distribution, post-launch monitoring, metrics, and even application marketing. Using extensive real-world examples, John Maver and Cappy Popp reveal why some Facebook applications succeed brilliantly while others fail. Next, they walk through building a complete application using every major component of the Facebook platform. Maver and Popp thoroughly cover Facebook’s most important new features, including Facebook Connect, and provide extensive…

The first book to show how to create apps for the hottest social networking site This hands-on guide teaches you how to build applications that run on the most popular social networking site among college students, professionals and business users. Written in the popular, easy-tofollow How to Do Everything format, this book is designed to enable even those with minimal technical skills to create Facebook Platform applications. With coverage of all the technologies involved, including Facebook Platform API, FBML, FQL, MySQL, and REST, How to Do Everything: Facebook Applications provides a single source of structured guidance that is far easier to understand than the disparate tutorials available on the Web. You will learn how integrate Facebook applications with websites and databases, and use your applications to sell a product or market a business, non-profit organization, or political…

Facebook Me! Group on Facebookound the water cooler—but you’re not sure what it’s all about. Relax and join in. There are more than 110 million members of Facebook these days, and adults are the fastest-growing segment of users. And it’s about more than just kid stuff; Facebook can actually be a good business tool as well as a great way to promote creative projects. In Facebook Me! Dave Awl shows you around the newly redesigned Facebook and helps you take full advantage of all it has to offer, while helping you avoid some of its pitfalls. • Find out what you can do on Facebook, and what it can do for you. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones, let your friends know what you’re up to, send greetings, share photos or video, or just goof around with applications like SuperPoke. • Learn Facebook etiquette: how and why to friend someone, how to socialize politely, and whether…