• Get a Facebook account http://www.facebook.com
• Add the developer application http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
• Documentation is available at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com
• The following platform client libraries are avaiable:
• PHP • JavaScript • Connect for iPhone • Flash/ActionScript • ASP.NET • ASP (VBScript) • Cocoa • Coldfusion • C + + • C# • D
• Emacs Lisp • Erlang • Google Web Toolkit • Java • Lisp • Perl • Python • Ruby on Rails • Small Talk • VB.NET • Windows Mobile
• Facebook allows you to integrate applications into many different areas of Facebook including:
• Users’ profiles • Users’ boxes • Users’ tabs • Inviting users’ friends to add application
• Applications must be built, tested and hosted on your own server
Set upFacebook
ReadDocumentation
DownloadLibrary
Build & Test App
Integrateinto Facebook
Screenshots of the HBLLFacebook Application
List of items placedin a user’s folder
About the application page with links to the library’s Facebook page
Inviting friends to use theapplication
Harold B. Lee Library’s Application:http://www.facebook.com/ apps/application.php?id=21310504904
Source Code: http://mdrive.lib.byu.edu/~jlh39/code/facebook.zip
Jared HowlandElectronic Resources Librarian