Transcript Facebook Applications and Marketing

Facebook Apps
Teppo Räisänen
Facebook apps
• Facebook apps are normal Web pages
– They are run inside Facebook so they can take
advantage of Facebooks social features
• E.g. user information, social plugins, graph API
– They can utilize database, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX,
Flash, Java etc (any normal Web technique)
Facebook apps
• First we need to be able to host our Web page
– We use students.oamk.fi Web server
• Then we need to create the new app with
Facebook Developer app
– As we are behind a proxy there might be some
problems doing this in school
– It should work properly from your homes
Facebook apps
• The place to start with Facebook applications
is:
– https://developers.facebook.com/docs/
• From the documentation please read this:
– https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/ca
nvas/
Facebook apps
• Please try out demos @FBAM page on Facebook
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/FBAM/138196
532931367?ref=ts
– Especially http://apps.facebook.com/fbamhelloworld/
– Note that there is a link at the end that displays the
source code for the app
– Another one
http://apps.facebook.com/fbamtesting/
– The source code for this is @FBAM