May 2011
Beginner
408 pages
10h 27m
English
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What's a Facebook Application?
If you keep reading, you'll quickly become acclimated to what a Facebook application is and why you might want to consider using such a thing. However, there may be a good chance you've never even touched Facebook Platform before and you want to find out why so many other developers and businesses are interested in Facebook.
Facebook applications basically come in two forms:
- Facebook hosted. This is typically what most people mean when they say “Facebook application.” Facebook allows developers, companies, and brands to build their own Web sites right on Facebook.com, which includes Facebook's own headers and footers. When you build a Facebook-hosted application you are in essence making an extension of Facebook itself. Users of your Facebook-hosted application never have to leave Facebook to use your Web site or application.
- Hosted on your own Web site. You can integrate Facebook features right into your own Web site. For instance, you can authenticate users through their Facebook accounts right on your own site. You can get a list of the user's friends and list them on your site. You can pull almost any type of data about users and their friends and apply it to your own Web site's content.
In this book I show you how to implement the two methods, but I also show you some simple ways you can integrate in both environments with very little effort. In most cases, it involves a little HTML knowledge, and the capability to copy and paste. Even marketers ...
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