If you have a site, then you should aware to increase more traffic in any possible way. If you’re aware on it, then you could use and integrate facebook widgets in your site. Currently there are 10 widgets provided by facebook. You could visit here http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/ to see all the widgets. Widgets integration is very easy. You just have to select some options and facebook will generate code that you can easily add in your site.

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Facebook will stop notification system for Application soon. That means facebook application will not send notification to its users. Instead this facebook inspires developer to send email from their application to their users. But a application couldn’t send email until user specifically provide permission. And this is one of the extended permission of facebook.

If you want to know how to prompt user for extended permission you can see my previous article http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/prompt-for-extended-permission-in-facebook-app/

In order for your application or site to get a user’s email address you have to do the following tasks:

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Suppose you’re using FBML for your canvas page and you think for one page it should be rendered as iframe then you may use fb:iframe in the page. But in facebook there is a better solution. Using fb_force_mode query string parameter you can render your fbml page as iframe or you can render  your iframe base app as fbml at runtime.

Here is an example:

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If you develop facebook application then you should inspire your user to bookmark your application. If users like your application they will surely use it more often. And if they found bookmark button in the app they might click it to bookmark the application. As a result user will use your application easily.

There are 2 ways to show bookmark button in your facebook application and facebook connect base application

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Facebook announced in their road-map about some major changes in the late 2009. Some of those changes now activated in facebook.  One of these important changes is to deprecate feed publish and replace it with stream publish.

I support it and like it. Because stream publishing is much easier and simple than feed publishing. This is a technical issue. So if you didn’t already change your feed publishing method to stream publish method, then you should do the change right now. Otherwise the wall post publish box will not work in your facebook or facebook connect application at anytime.

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Basically I’m mainly php base web application developer. But I have  much interest in ActionScript project. Sometimes when I get opportunity I work on it. Someday ago, I was assigned in a project, where I’ve to develop a Flash Widget using ActionScript 3.0 and php. This widget will be use mainly for facebook page.

So shortly the project requirements are:

1. Develop a dynamic flash widget using ActionScript 3.0
2. Communication between ActionScript and PHP API
3. This widget should be working on any facebook page

To develop this project I’ve learned a new library called amfphp. Using this library its much easier and practical to communicate between ActionScript and php. In this article, I’ll show how to use amfphp and develop a dynamic flash widget.

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Facebook page is now very popular. Many companies and people create facebook page for their own publicity. Suppose your company has 100 products and they want to maintain 100 facebook pages, then isn’t it very difficult to update status all of the pages manually?

In this article, I’ll show and discuss about 2 facebook api, using that you can easily update your facebook page status or publish wall post on that page automatically

I assume that you know how to set cron from hosting admin panel, I also assume that you have intermediate knowledge of facebook application development and their api usage.

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Someday ago I had to add youtube video search functionality in a facebook app. Here I described how I added youtube search functionality in that facebook app using Zend_Gdata php library.

Here is a screenshot of that facebook application, where I added YouTube video search functionality.

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Suppose you want to develop a facebook application or facebook connect base application, where you want to show all the latest photos published by your friends in facebook. In this post I’m showing the solution.

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There are many birthday related facebook application. Most of this type application provide feature like, they show you the upcoming birthdays of your friends. Some of the app also send notification to user before any birthday of his friends come.

Now I’ll show you the solution to get birthday of your friends using fql query or facebook api Continue