When Facebook announced that it would open up its platform, allowing third party applications to integrate with Facebook, it ushered itself in a social ecology of building applications taking full advantage of each other. Facebook, on one hand gives its users access to numerous third-party applications that they can experience without moving out of the platform. On the other hand, third-party applications leverage the mammoth user base of Facebook to reach out to an audience unimaginable in size and drawn together with only one motive i.e. to socialize.

Launch of the ‘Facebook Platform’ in 2007 enabled third party developers to build rich social applications within Facebook. Leading to more than 350,000 developers and entrepreneurs from 225 countries to sign up, and start developing applications.

With the launch of ‘Facebook Connect’ in 2008, the next iteration of the ‘Facebook Platform’, Facebook has allowed for users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site. In addition to offering a simple authentication method, Facebook Connect allows granular social interactions to be embedded in non-Facebook services. Hence, enabling third party websites to implement and offer even more features of Facebook Platform off of Facebook.

Experts from our Open Source Center of Excellence & our Web 2.0 development team have extensive experience in using PHP Client Libraries, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), MySQL, iFrame etc. We can help you develop the next ‘killer app’ on Facebook. Your custom Facebook application will feel native to Facebook with its look and feel when it appears on Facebook applications menu, bookmarks or application tabs etc. Facebook platform API would also be used to access the user data from the platform that may be used in your Facebook application. Upon integration with Facebook platform, the application would also shows up on the application directory.

By combining our India based offshore development capabilities & our Web 2.0 expertise, with our ‘Facebook Connect’ experience, we can in a very cost effective manner, help you to harness the power of Facebook’s social community for the benefit of your web application.