Facebook Platform Application Development Fatigue

ReadWriteWeb is posing the question Have Facebook Apps Peaked?

The hype is gone and what is left? Not to many useful tools that we can use.

Next we should see a bunch of truly usable business applications that we can use in our everday life. I would like to to see some truly Web 2.0 IT applications that I can utilize for projects and conducting business on a daily basis.

Hopefully now that the Facebook bubble has burst and they seem to be opening up to integration and data portability, we can get real and create some truly useful Facebook applications.

Facebook opens up Javascript Library for their API

It isn't quite embracing OpenSocial, but with their latest joining of the data portability as well as now opening up the JavaScript client library which allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site, Facebook is getting closer to being fully open.

Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted and ran on any web site.

Almost all Facebook APIs are supported except for Photo Upload Profile Set FBML.

It pretty much opens up for building applications that run on the Facebook platform and you can extend them off to any web site.

Curious to see how this would flow, but you could basically put a version of Facebook anywhere you like such as Google Home Page and any other home page environment.

Using Amazon Web Services for Facebook Applications

Not everyone knows you can about the Amazon Web Services Platform let alone that you can use it to create highly scalable applications for Facebook.

Amazon Web Services is an ideal hosting environment for these applications. Developers can start small, test and prove out their ideas, and then rapidly add processing and storage resources as they develop an audience.

Amazon is talking about building Facebook Applications on AWS and you can visit a new page on Building Facebook Applications on the Amazon Web Services Platform, you can find step-by-step instructions for registration along with links to tutorials, and even a pre-built EC2 AMI.

Nice to see them working to promote and educate people on how to use the AWS Platform to inexpensively build highly scalable Facebook applications.

Facebook Application Development

Been spending more time lately thinking about Facebook Application Development for small businesses.

Was reading Andrew McAfee talking about The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Businesses and their Leaders and talking about Facebook AS the Intranet.

Was also talking with another acquaintance about the usage of Facebook as a learning platform for K-12.

I really feel Facebook as a big role to play in the next generation of business and learning. The youth have adopted it and I think it will grow from there.

Has a lot of potential because you can still retain some level of control over your application and leverage the Facebook community to reach your audience.

More to come...