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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - sloppy editing
This Facebook Application Development has the unfortunate acronym FAD. One might wonder if the recent to-do about writing these applets will ever amount to much, from an economic standpoint. The book scrupulously avoid discussion about this aspect. Instead it assumes that you have already made the decision to write an application, and need to know how.
So it explains the Facebook Markup Language; a sort of-HTML. It lets you write graphics onto a Facebook page. FBML is not hard at all. ... Read More
Rating: - Everything you need to know to build a face book application..
While there are minor typos in the text, I found this book covered everything I needed to know to build my facebook application. The text and examples are very detailed and the author's style makes the book fun and easy to read. If you are getting started building facebook applications, than this book is for you.
Rating: - Poorly edited - full of annoying little errors
I found this book to be a barely acceptable reference, but only because the Facebook documentation is so bad. The book is full of annoying little errors in the text and sample code. For example, a section on FBML tags for navigation starting on page 51 promises a more complete discussion of the topic in chapter 10, which turns out to be about external application development.
- sloppy editing
- Everything you need to know to build a face book application..
- Poorly edited - full of annoying little errors
