Facebook-Based Apps Now Can Run on Other Sites
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A Facebook application can be hosted on any Web site that serves static HTML, the social networking site says.
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On the JSLabs blog today, there's a new tutorial showing how you (yes you) can use the Facebook Developer's API to pull information from their systems.   The facebook API allows you to access profiles, friends, photos, and events.  To access the API from an outside server, you need to go through the following steps:  login to your Facebook Account get an account key Get the client library The php 5 library can be found here    He uses the PHP library to make the connection - a simple call to the API (complete with API key, the location of the interface, a secret key, and a session key to provide a unique identifier. The request made logs a user in (much have a valid Facebook account) and grabs: the count of the messages waiting, the number of posts to your wall, and a list of available photo albums.
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A page on the official developers' wiki hints that the social network will be offering data storage space for applications hosted on the Facebook Platform.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 24  /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook f8 Event -- Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive today announced two political applications built on Facebook Platform, a development platform that enables companies to integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users.
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Facebook, the social-network site  that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the past  three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of the  world how to find them on the site.
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Which Facebook apps make your circle of friends a better place? The apps are rolling in to the social networking site's new platform, launched several weeks ago. Use our open-submission tool to tell us about your favorite.
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MySpace is about to make it possible for developers to build applications that can run, and make money, on its site.
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Belated move to counter Facebook MySpace will open up to third party developers within the next few months.â¦
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The company announces a new program called FBFund to provide grants to developers who are interested in creating applications for the Facebook Platform.
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The online hangout Facebook is opening another window to the outside world, letting nonusers for the first time search for members' personal profile pages.
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Anyone can make their own Facebook app, and now Widgetbox users can make them faster with App Accelerator, a new web-based helper tool. CNET editor Jessica Dolcourt tested it out with her very own Webware app for Facebook.
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Facebook launched a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.
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Blog: The social networking company plans to launch an API to connect to other services.
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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social networking identities.
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The social networkâs new JavaScript client library ends the restriction that prevented developers from running Facebook applications on other Web sites, the company announced.
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MySpace on Tuesday opened its popular social-networking platform to software developers, echoing a move credited with helping Facebook gain ground on its market-leading rival.
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By ANICK JESDANUN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK  The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages.