Here are some facts I picked up from Interweb on the growth of Facebook apps and how to make money on Facebook. It seems that the future of Facebook is utility, not entertainment.
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Facebook Developer FAQs
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From virtualmarketingblog.com, How to Make Money with Facebook:
1. Selling advertising space
Facebook apps with large audiences can make a lot of money selling ad space on their page through ad networks like Lookery, Userplane and Google Adsense.
2. Sponsorship
Advertisers are lining up to sponsor popular Facebook applications. The Food Fight! application which lets you throw virtual food at your friends is soon to be serving up virtual chicken wings from a major food chain. Tyson???
3. Sell goods and services
The future of Facebook applications is utility, not fun. Facebook application Band Tracker searches upcoming concerts and links to ticket vendor web sites. Soon, it will be common for people to make purchases from their own Facebook pages.
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Time Magazine’s Simple Facebook App
"Though simplistic in nature, it’s a nice option from the larger publication company. Several print publications are releasing more and more widgets, like those recently offered by USA Today. Hopefully this is the sign of more fun widgets to come, especially for Time Magazine, which has several unique sections in its magazine that many would love to be able to add to their Facebook profiles."++
National Geographic Photo of the Day
Click to get a stunning new image every day -- unforgettable photos of landscapes, animals, cultures, and more as only National Geographic photographers can capture them.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=20290686056
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iLike
About iLike:
iLike lets you add music and videos to your profile, dedicate songs to your friends, and see who’s going to what concerts. Bonus: get free mp3s matching your tastes, and beat your friends at the Music Challenge. Start here.
For musicians and artists:
- Create an artist page, upload your music and events
- Send multimedia bulletins to fans with iCast
- Get detailed stats on your fans
- Musician signup >>
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2413267546
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Facebook: The Magazine
The Magazine is an entertainment magazine for The facebook community. An in your face, raw, one of a kind magazine containing Facebook Hotties Contests, Nightlife Guides, Prizes, Contests, Insider Info, Events, Stories, and more.
Want to be featured in the magazine? Add The Magazine application and see how you can be featured in the next issue.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2360164695
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Forbes.com Stock Tracker
Forbes.com announced a stocks application built on the Facebook Platform. The application lets Facebook users track company stocks and access related financial information as well as headline news from Forbes.com.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2351687705&ref=s
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How to Make a Facebook App
Facebook has done a pretty good job of documenting the fundamental components of their platform over on their developer site. The platform consists of three core parts:
- API – The API defines the various methods through which you can interact with Facebook. If you’re not familiar with the idea of an API, take a look at some recent Digital Web articles: APIs and Mashups for the Rest of Us and Hacking on Open APIs.
- FBML – Facebook Markup Language is a custom markup language based on various bits of HTML. It’s similar to Coldfusion or ASP.NET’s tag-based syntax, and is used to define the pages in your application.
- FQL – Facebook Query Language is SQL for Facebook. A powerful query language for situations where there are no existing helper methods in the API, or handy tags in FBML, to do exactly what you need.
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Anatomy of a Facebook App
- Product Directory
- About
- Left Nav
- Facebook Canvas Pages
- Profile
- Privacy Settings
- News Feed
- Alerts
- Message Attachments
- Requests
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No More Custom CMS?
This article was written in the spirit of helping out non-profit companies (i.e. small budget projects) as they decide which CMS to use. This writer advises against custom CMS solutions and advises the use of open-source solutions like Drupal:
"This is a rant. And it is a rant on behalf of the hundreds (thousands?) of nonprofit organizations whose website is stuck behind a custom CMS - one that was written by some web development shop or another, and migration off of that custom CMS is going to be a nightmare.
"As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. I wrote that CMS back before there were any really good open source ones, like most of the custom CMS out there."
http://www.zenofnptech.org/2008/02/no-more-custom-cms.html
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