Facebook Garage - Part 5

August 7th, 2007

Updating the Facebook Profile. by Colin Smillie

Rules:
  • content rules
    • no iframes, or auto-running flash
  • display rules
    • consistent presentation and user experience
Caching
  • The profile page is cached, so your app must notify facebook in order to update the profile page.
  • See the fb:ref method for updates.
  • multiple handles are possible, so you could update many profiles at once (think of a horrorscope application, only 12 updates would need to be made for many users

Application Demo: "My Free Stuff", by: Ricardo Covo

Ricardo presents his application which was developed with MS tools (dotNet + SQL Server). He also uses iframes, which seems to be less common. Like Rails, dotNet has an API wrapper (several) for ease of use.

Ricardo found the facebook platform to be extremely easy to develop for, and the api wrappers provide seamless integration into your own platform of choice.

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