Facebook Applications
Facebook applications can now be built to be used across multiple platforms including Mobile and on Facebook.com. Facebook Applications can be linked from external websites which allow your users to share information with friends on their Facebook wall. Some of the popular external facebook apps:
- Foursquare
- NetworkedBlogs
- Where I’ve Been
- Citizen Sports
- TripAdvisor
Facebook Applications can be linked from desktop applications which allow your users to share information with friends on their Facebook wall. Some popular desktop facebook apps:
- Facebook Exporter
- Seesmic Desktop
- Digsby
- Evertbrite
- fdCal
- Flock Browser
Facebook Application Prototypes - Facebook also has a number of product experiments built internally by Facebook engineers similar to Google Labs. Most popular facebook prototypes:
- Desktop Notifications
- Gross National Happiness
- Slideshow
- Enhanced Event Emails
- Photo Tag Search
- New Photo Uploader
Facebook Mobile Applications
Over 100 million Facebook users access Facebook from their mobile phones every month and now by building Facebook into your mobile applications you can benefit from this growing audience. The benefit of linking Facebook into your mobile application is that you can also ask the user for special permission which will allow your application to publish messages to the users wall. The software development kit is available in PHP and Python and uses 2 open source mobile SDKs for the iPhone and Anroid.
The mobile applications using Facebook such as CNN mobile shown above use OAuth 2.0 for mobile authentication and authorisation.
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