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How do facebook applications work?

Hi, Here's a little bit about my situation: I want to be able to retrieve a list of emails for the friends of a given user. Here is how I would like the process to go: A div box pops up with a login (used to log in to their facebook account, not my website's account system - that is separate) Then once the user has entered their face...

scalable sites

facebook, skype, myspace etc... all have millions and millions of users, does anyone know what their architecture looks like. Is it distributed on different nodes or do they use massive clusters? ...

Facebook API without client authentication for public content

I'm developing a site for a client who already have the photos of his products on Facebook, and he wants the same albums to be replicated over his site. I was already using Facebook Connect, so I dropped a combination of photos.getAlbums and photos.get to dynamically make the galleries. So far so good, but then I realized that if there'...

Inviting friends in facebook application

I have a facebook application that is published at facebook platform and i used facebook API to invite friends and i have succeeded in creating invitation form but the problem is that when u invite friend and send invitation and the invitation request sent to the user and the user accept it this friend appears again in the friend list th...

Facebook Connect showFeedDialog

Hi, I would like to use FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(...), but without it being a popup, is that possible? ...

Facebook database design?

I have always wondered how Facebook designed the friend <-> user relation. I figure the user table is something like this: user_email PK user_id PK password I figure the table with user's data (sex, age etc connected via user email I would assume). How does it connect all the friends to this user? Something like this? user_id...

Why does facebook.feed.publishUserAction strip my image out?

I'm using the Facebooker plugin in Rails to publish a user action to their newsfeed, but the image isn't being added. The call (via Net::HTTP.post_form) looks like this: Posting to http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php with {:api_key=>"4f5ed28f76142adsfasdf029c98ad", :template_bundle_id=>"107345673712", :template_data=>"{\"project\"...

Plaxo and Facebook's logo on Google's OpenID confirmation page

Cheers, after seeing Stack Overflow's excellent implementation of OpenID, and after seeing what great job Google did with OpenID, I implemented it on a web app I'm working on. During my research I ran into Plaxo as another great RP. Recently, Facebook added some rudimentary OpenID support. It's apparently used for completely different ...

Facebook status update through php

Hi, I want to develop a bot which will update the status of a facebook account using php. Please guide me on this ...

Facebook App maintenance considerations

If I write a Facebook App for a client (I'd probably be the "developer" working with a marketing agency, with one or more Facebook apps as market of a social media strategy), it's not just a fire and forget project, is it? From what I've read so far, the Facebook API is still in flux, and fixes and changes that Facebook makes can break ...

Is python a stable platform for facebook development?

I'm trying to build my first facebook app, and it seems that the python facebook (pyfacebook) wrapper is really out of date, and the most relevant functions, like stream functions, are not implemented. Are there any mature python frontends for facebook? If not, what's the best language for facebook development? ...

Is it possible to format Facebook notification text?

My application sends Facebook notifications to a user. Is that possible to format the notification text with some html or fbml tags? I've found out that <a> tag works just fine, but what about the others? ...

Dealing with multiple login systems (Facebook Connect, Google Account, and others)

If you want to allow your site users to be able to login with Facebook Connect, Google Account, etc, how do you design your database so that they are all integrated? ...

How does Facebook prefetch url/feed content?

I posted a url to a blog post in a Facebook message http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/22/we-are-all-bumblebee-beijing-transformers-fans-gather-to-celebr/ and Facebook inlined the title and abbreviated text as if it fetched them from the rss feed http://www.autoblog.com/rss.xml but when I submitted the link the blog post was already expired...

Execute FQL Queries From .Net Facebook Developer Toolkit

Using the .Net Facebook Developer Toolkit, how do I execute FQL queries? ...

APIs that allow status updates to be posted to several sites?

Does anyone know of an API that will allow for posting status updates to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook? ...

How to justify Facebook Connect/API application development

Hello! I'm currently working for a company that doesn't have any Facebook presence. I've been having thoughts about working a rogue project that involves Facebook connect and API integration with our current web application. My plan is to develop a working demo, then show at 80% completion and somehow justify its existence, but I have ...

How do you limit a Facebook app to a small number of people during testing?

I know about test accounts, but during beta I'd like to allow access only to my friends, and then later friends-of-friends, and then only eventually Kevin Bacon and his friends. That would probably suck, wouldn't it? The app would be listed (is there a way to prevent listing?) and someone I don't know might try it and get a "sorry, this...

Invalid parameter exception on client.auth_getSession() in Facebook java API

I want to connect to a my facebook application using the facebook java api 2.1.1(http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/). My application is in "Desktop" mode so I should be able to access it outside of a web application. I have not defined any callback url for it as well. My code looks something like this. FacebookJsonRestClient cl...

FB Feed dialog not asking for user comments ?

Why FB Feed dialog below (iframe solution) is not asking for user comments on dialog, the dialog appears and post is sent function callback() { alert("Thank you"); } function showFeed() { FB_RequireFeatures(["XFBML"], function(){ FB.Facebook.init('kkkc', '/facebook/xd_receiver.htm', null); FB.ensureInit(f...