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Slide 1: Facebook Apps: Thinking about UI in a social way Wayne Graham, UVa Arin Sime , OpenSource Connections
Slide 2: About Us • Wayne Graham • • • • • MA in History 10 years in higher ed/digital humanities Community Development Geek Facebook API Developer’s Guide • Arin Sime • • • • Software consultant with OpenSource Connections UVa grad student at McIntire Adjunct instructor at VCU Working on challenge based fundraising tools for Facebook
Slide 3: http://www.redstamp.com/products/1931-Who-Cares-Sticky-Notes-Anne-Taintor
Slide 4: Is this a good idea • 300+ million users • Advertise events • Connect with students and prospective students • Limits...
Slide 5: Web APIs • Extend existing applications • Web services... • Mashups http://www.internetannoyanceday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/programmer.jpg
Slide 6: Facebook API Workflow
Slide 7: Official Libraries • Java • PHP 5 • JavaScript • iPhone (Objective C) • ActionScript 3 • Force.com
Slide 8: Unsupported Libraries Android •ASP.net •Cocoa •ColdFusion •C++ •C# • • • • • • • • • Lisp Perl Python Ruby Smalltalk Tcl VB.NET Windows Mobile zembly I can haz my language plzkthx
Slide 9: Components • API (REST calls) • FQL (Facebook Query Language) • FBML/XFBML (extension of X/HTML tags) • FBJS (scrubbed JS)
Slide 10: API Components • Authorization • Data Store • Permissions • Photo/Video Uploads • Notification
Slide 11: First Steps • Add Developer App (http: • Wiki (http: • Developer Forum (http: • Get a sample app • Write Unit Tests!!! //wiki.developers.facebook.com) //www.facebook.com/developers) //forum.developers.facebook.com/)
Slide 12: Yo Dude, I’m real happy for you. Imma gonna let you finish but MySpace is one of the best APIs of all time!!!
Slide 13: From one extreme... http://apps.facebook.com/thesocialcircles/
Slide 14: ... to the other extreme http://apps.facebook.com/thesocialcircles/
Slide 15: Putting it all together
Slide 16: Facebook app lifecycle
Slide 17: 1. Get the Add Ge tt Ad he d
Slide 18: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup 2. Setup
Slide 19: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup Inc en tiv ize 3. Incentivize
Slide 20: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup Inc en tiv ize 4. Share Sh are
Slide 21: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup Inc en tiv ize 5. Feed Fe e d Sh are
Slide 22: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup Inc en tiv ize 6. Come back! Co ba me ck ! Fe e d Sh are
Slide 23: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup And if you get it right... Inc en Co ba me ck ! tiv ize Fe e d Sh are
Slide 24: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup And if you get it right... Inc en Co ba me ck ! tiv ize Fe e d Sh are
Slide 25: Ge tt Ad he d Se tup And if you get it right... Inc en Co ba me ck ! tiv ize Fe e d Sh are
Slide 26: Facebook Athenaeum • Get Facebook users to library resources • Provide a social “hook” • Open Source
Slide 27: Business
Slide 28: Hook
Slide 29: Questions? http://www.facebook.com/design http://www.ustream.tv/channel/facebook-tech-talks Wayne Graham, UVa Arin Sime , OpenSource Connections
Slide 30: Oh yeah, code...
Slide 31: Oh yeah, code... response = fbsession.users_getInfo(:uids => [fbsession.session_user_id], :fields => ["first_name", "last_name", "name", "uid"])
Slide 32: Oh yeah, code...