The Facebook generation
19th April 2011
The Facebook website is nothing short of a phenomenon and in only a few short years it has quickly and decisively transformed the social web. If Facebook was a country, it would now be the third largest in the world with a population of more than 400 million people. It's little wonder that many companies have already identified the Facebook user base as a very desirable market to impress and interact with.
Thirdrock has been developing Facebook applications for the past 3 years and has a great deal of understanding of the design and implementation issues specific to the Facebook platform. While too numerous and long-winded to describe here, the rapidly-changing Facebook APIs provide access to key Facebook functionality and allow your company's personality and product/service to be integrated within the familiar and very regularly used Facebook website. In short, if you want your customers to interact with your brand and product/service as regularly as possible, a Facebook application is a key and affordable way to spread the word.
Thirdrock thinks...
- A new intranet for The Lighthouse Group - web development in action
- Off-the-shelf or bespoke development?
- Content management systems and you – one size never fits all
- Introduction to Accessibility
- Are you being served? A more technical view
- Are you being served? dotNET vs PHP vs Java vs Cold Fusion et al
- The Facebook generation
- Source control and configuration
- In-memory caching using memcache
- Web security built-in
- Covering the bases
- Web development tools
- Web development
- Web application development
