Dimensions
178 x 228 x 26mm
The first start-to-finish, real-world guide to Facebook development: design, development, testing, distribution, and post-launch monitoring!
- Packed with robust examples reflecting the authors' extensive experience building and deploying Facebook applications.
- Helps developers understand what makes Facebook applications succeed - and why they fail.
- Provides up-to-the-minute coverage of Facebook's latest development capabilities.
- The first Facebook development guide that also covers Bebo development.
More and more developers want to build applications for Facebook, the most popular social networking platform. But Facebook development has unique challenges, both technical and non-technical. In this book, two of the world's most experienced Facebook developers show how to meet those challenges. Facebook Development lifecycle, offering insider guidance and best practices for design, coding, testing, distribution, post-launch monitoring, and metrics - even Facebook application marketing. Using extensive real-world examples, the authors reveal why some Facebook applications succeed brilliantly while others fail. Next, they walk through using every major component of the Facebook platform to build a complete application that has already proven successful in the marketplace. They cover Facebook's newest Profile and Facebook Connect features, and offer an entire section on adapting Facebook applications to the hot new Bebo social networking platform - invaluable information currently available nowhere else. Coverage also includes: Facebook architecture, development tools, and terms of service; building canvas pages; updating profiles; communicating with users; using FBJS, Mock-Ajax, and Flash; testing and releasing applications; integrating Facebook into external web sites; loop testing and tuning; spreading and monetizing applications, and much more. systematically covers the entire Facebook application.
