For those who want to exercise their creativity and receive
a true one to one response from users, I suggest you to write a Facebook
application. (If you have the idea)
- The Requirements:
- 1.
Idea
- 2.
Knowledge of programming, every
IT graduate must have the knowledge otherwise he / she has cheated in the exams
- 3.
Know the Facebook rules
- 4.
Facebook Installed on your
host or an Accelerated Facebook hosting
- 5.
Good friends who add your
application and their friends and so on
- 6.
....
Problems I faced at the beginning
- 1.
I didn't know what does
this means
- "require_once '/home/-----/facebook/facebook-platform/client/facebook.php';"
- I thought this file is on Facebook server and after hours of
struggle, I found out that I have to have facebook api on my host.
- 2.
I couldn't make it work on
my own host so I used an accelerated facebook host
- 3.
I'm a VB.net programmer and
the resources for facebook .net application development were few.
4.
So I chose php, since I
have learned C languages at college, it was little easy little tough to write
php applications.
What amazed me in Facebook
- 1.
Facebook animation
- 2.
<fb swf> tag, <fb:request-form
tag and all other FBML tags
- 3.
The most amazing developer
site, API and FBML Test consol, Wiki pages, ...
- 4.
And finally how it shows
the uid list. It gets uid, loads the photo, checks your network
This tutorial really helped
understand what's going on
http://www.howtoforge.com/rss_facebook_app_php_p5
and the accelerated facebook host
is a good startup option
http://wiki.joyent.com/facebook:kb:faststart
So it seems like a good market but I can't make any money out of it. :(!!!
And this is another one which I've got hopes for it to be popular.
