So I’ve been playing around with Facebook and its API, I found a few useful resources and I want to share the kool-aid with you.

Hopefully you will use them or at least look at them if you want to start learning more and more about Facebook and developing a Facebook application

The Wikipedia Facebook page will give you a general overview about Facebook past and present, applications and the basic functionality of Facebook.

Before you even start thinking about developing an application for Facebook it would be a good idea if you get a Facebook account if you don’t already have one, try the features available get a feel for the current features of the site and perhaps adding a few applications here and there and try interacting and finding friends, this is definitely basic but you must need to know these basic stuff in order to more easily understand the Facebook API.

Inside Facebook is a site with latest news and Facebook applications, read some of the content on the site to give you an idea about Facebook development being done and how crazy and hot things are getting for Facebook.

AppRate is a place where you can find out about other Facebook applications and get a sense for what has been done already and things that are similar to the ideas your might have for creating an application, its very useful to see the kinds of application that are out here and see if there are any similar to the one you are thinking about making.

FaceReviews is a very useful site where you can find lots of up to date information regarding Facebook, Facebook Application reviews, Facebook New and Facebook Widgets, definitely a keeper.

If you are going to be developing a Facebook application you must get familiar with the API documentation, get some examples, get an overview of the available functionality in the API and interact with other developers, and you can get all this and more at the Facebook Developer site,  If you are used to programming with any of the Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET then you know how useful is to have something like MSDN, well this is what I like to call the MSDN for the Facebook Platform.  Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the Facebook platform and also learn about the Anatomy of a Facebook Application

Ok now its time to get your hands on the actual Facebook developer toolkit for .NET , which is basically a very nice way to programmatic call the Facebook API service within your .NET source code, you can download the source code or the binaries, also there is a nice word document available for download that tells you how to setup the toolkit with your application in just a few lines of code.

Note if you are not planning on using .NET to write your Facebook application there also other toolkits available such as:

• Actionscript
• Cocoa
• ColdFusion
• Perl

Adonomics is an open analytics and advertising platform for Facebook that can provide stock-market-style analyses of Facebook features allowing you answer question like: How much is your app worth, in advertising dollars? How does that correlate to your applications growth? etc.

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