Facebook is the fastest growing social networking website with over 800 million active users (as of Sep 2011). Application that runs on facebook canvas or that uses facebook login and graph to get users are called facebook applications (shortly facebook apps) Building applications on facebook becomes viral and the application may get more users quickly. Web applications with facebook connect / facebook login option increases the chances of users trying the same. Reduced spams and the users are authentic as they have their profile data connected to the application
We develop facebook applications for
Facebook application for canvas
Facebook canvas applications are apps that runs inside facebook. These may be games, utilities, networking etc. This lets us integrate application to the core of facebook functionalities.
This gives options to use
- Bookmarks for quick re-engagement
- Real-time social app activity
- Notifications
- News Feeds
- Insights
Facebook social graph API and updates on F8 fetches a lot of flexibility to the development effort.
Facebook application for web
Facebook application for web is application built as a stand alone website with facebook functionalities offered through Graph API. We use PHP SDK and JS SDK to develop facebook applications for web.
Following functions are covered in the development
- Single sign-on for the application with facebook login
- Profile creation with facebook data
- Post to wall from app with appropriate permissions
- Send message to friends from app with permission
Applications for custom facebook page tabs
Facebook pages can be added with additional tab to which users can be routed for additional functions. For eg, If you run a Saloon you may take appointment registrations from users from your facebook page.
Some of the website that uses our custom facebook page tab