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• Vivie
Who am I ?
http://twitter.com/vivienschilis
VIVIEN SCHILIS
French studentMIKAMAI INTERN
What are we talking about ?
• The Facebook platform
• Create a facebook application
• Make it social
• Current trends
• My Fb expriences
INTRO - Boring stuff
• Largest social networking site
• More than 200 million active users
• More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
INTRO - Boring stuff
• 2007 - Facebook launched the Facebook Platform providing a frame work to create applications that interact with core Facebook features.
• More than 950,000 developers
• Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
• More than 52,000 applications currently available
• More than 100 applications have more than one million monthly active users
INTRO - How interact with facebook?
"We released Facebook Platform in 2006 so our developers could create applications that allow users to share and stay
connected"
INTRO - How interact with facebook?
"We released Facebook Platform in 2006 so our developers could create applications that allow users to share and stay
connected"
... and stay addicted
INTRO - How interact with facebook?
Facebook connect
Facebook apps
Facebook connect
Facebook apps
INTRO - How interact with facebook?
The facebook platform
• Run into facebook
• Hosted on your server
• Canvas page
• Canvas page name : mygreatapp
• Canvas page URL :
• https://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp
• Callback URL :
• https://mygreatapp.myserver.com/
The facebook platform
Canvas page
The facebook platform
• Canvas page
• Canvas page name : mygreatapp
• Canvas page URL :
• https://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp
• Callback URL :
• https://mygreatapp.myserver.com/
User
User
CANVAS URL
CALLBACK URL
CONTENT (HTML)
CONTENT IMBEDED INTO THE CANVAS (HTML)
https://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp/users
MY SERVER
• FBML (Facebook Markup Language)
• Evolved subset of HTML
• Allow to customize “look and feel” of apps
• Specific tags: <fb:name>, <fb:create_button>
Get social data
User
User
CANVAS URL CALLBACK URL
CONTENT IMBEDED INTO THE CANVAS (HTML)
CONTENT
(HTML + FBML)
RENDER FBML TO HTML
https://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp/users
MY SERVER
User
User
CANVAS URL CALLBACK URL
CONTENT IMBEDED INTO THE CANVAS (HTML)
CONTENT
(HTML + FBML)
RENDER FBML TO HTML
MY SERVER
API Facebook
SOCIAL DATA
https://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp/users
Create a new app
http://www.facebook.com/developers/apps.php
Make you app social
Get friends’ userGet user’s info
Publish a message on the user’s wall
Get user’s media
Embed media (flash, mp3, ...)
FB look and feelFriends selector
WIDGETS
Widget : <fb:share>
<fb-share-button href=’http://apps.facebook.com/mygreatapp/’>
Requests
App side
Requests
User side
Widget : <fb:comments>
Notifications
Publisher
Trends
• Quizz (How well do you know..., What kind of person are you)
• Feelings (He said something about you)
• Contest (Your friends have done... challenge him)
• Top Five
• Media sharing
My Fb experiences
Pickmi
PickCover
No Fb no party
Next apps?
• Create an item
• Description / State
• Add attachments (photos)
• State: Available | Not available | Exchanged/Lent
Code name: scambio utile
• Actions :
• Set an item available
• Users can search an item
• Ask to use it, select dates
• Can propose one of his items
Code name: scambio utile
• Actions :
• Requested user can accept
• Can request one of his items in exchange
Code name: scambio utile
• Actions :
• Follow an item and be notified when available
• Publish on your wall 5 items
Code name: scambio utile
Conclusion
• Facebook platform is easy to use
• Set up is a little more complex
• Make some traffic about your app
• Want to start => RAILS + FACEBOOKER