Tag Archive for 'OpenSocial'

Facebook Opens Up Platform: fbOpen

Here it is, many considered it inevitable after OpenSocial, and Facebook have responded by opening up their own platform. Even though the OpenSocial adopters are sticking with Google for now, I think fbOpen will catch on eventually, at least I find it the easiest platform to develop for.

The fb-open-platform.tar.gz archive contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform — including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and FQL (Facebook Query Language) — in your own environment. It also contains libfbml-1.2.0.tar.gz, which contains the essential libraries for parsing and rendering FBML.

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OpenSocial Video Tutorials

After researching the possibilities of porting my Indian Premier League application from Facebook to Orkut, I have begun aquatinting myself with the basics of the OpenSocial platform which Orkut uses, and these video tutorials provided by Google are an excellent tool.

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