Feiler, Jesse.

How to do everything : Facebook applications / Facebook applications Jesse Feiler. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008. - xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Part I. Facebook Applications: What They Are and How to Use Them --
Chapter 1. Use Facebook as a Social Utility --
Understand the Facebook World --
Social Utility --
Virality --
Social Graph --
Web 2.0 --
The Size of the Facebook World --
Use Facebook Basics --
Profile and Preferences --
Facebook Applications --
Networks --
The Wall --
Chapter 2. Find Your Way Around Your Facebook Home Page and Profile --
Use Basic Navigation --
The Facebook Frame --
The Left-Hand Column (Left Nav) --
The Footer Links --
The Canvas --
Manage Your Account --
Account Settings --
Use Your Home Page --
Home Page Contents --
Controlling Your Home Page --
Platform Elements for the News Feed --
Use Your Profile.

Shows you how to build applications that run on social networking sites. This book is designed to enable even those with minimal technical skills to create Facebook Platform applications. It features coverage of the technologies involved, including Facebook Platform API, FBML, FQL, MySQL and REST.

9780071549677 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008004603


Facebook (Electronic resource)


Online social networks.
Social networks--Computer network resources.
Web sites--Design.

HM742 / .F45 2008

006.7