Apps on Facebook.com

Introduction

• Web apps that loaded in the context of Facebook (FB)
• This apps give u opportunity to be parted of FB experience
• The apps can be integrate with FB features like Request, Bookmarks and Page tabs to make it more likely a seamless part of FB experience.
• Core FB Platform technologies available : [1]Social Plugins, [2]Graph API and [3]Platform Dialogs.

Getting Started

• The apps can be build by using any language that supports web programming like PHP, Python, Java or C#.
• Loaded into a [4]Canvas Page.
• Populate the Canvas Page by providing a Canvas URL that contains the HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
• When user request for the Canvas Page, the Canvas URL will be load within the [5]iframe.
• Result : ur apps will be displayed in standard FB chrome.

For more details, i will refer to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas