Facebook Developers

Integrating Facebook Connect into your website to add social context is a quick and easy development process involving a few key features. In the first video in our Facebook Connect series we showed you how to add Facebook Connect authentication and identity into your site in 8 minutes.

In this video Facebooks Engineers from the Facebook Connect team - Ronnie Cheng and Luke Shepard- show you how to give your users the power to share through Facebook Connect by integrating social distribution to Facebook Feed. In 10 minutes we walk you step by step through adding publishing to feed, creating feed templates and bundles, and designing feed stories for the best user experience.

If you'd like to view the video full size click here. Check out full documentation on how to integration Facebook Feed as a part of Facebook Connect by clicking here.

Happy New Year and here's to a more social web!

We wanted to take a moment and thank you for all of your great work and amazing applications that have helped make Facebook Platform the largest and fastest-growing social platform over the past year and a half. As we end 2008 there are over 660,000 of you worldwide building applications that give users more powerful ways to share and connect, and collectively your applications have reached nearly 140 million people.

Just recently, we've been excited to bring you Facebook Connect - allowing you to integrate the tools and features of Facebook Platform on your Websites, devices and desktop applications. In the next several months, we're looking forward to introducing additional improvements to help users more easily find your applications as well as launching the first sets of Verified Applications to users. If you haven't applied for verification yet, apply here.

Over the next year, we look forward to continued developments to improve Facebook Platform and help you reach and engage more users, and grow and sustain your business. We would love your feedback and input on what you think is most important - please take a few minutes and answer our survey here:

Facebook Developer Survey

From all of us at Facebook, we wish you and your families "Happy Holidays," and we look forward to making the web even more social with you in 2009!

Invitations are one of the best ways for users to share applications they love with their friends. Many developers have told us that this is one of the biggest ways in which their applications reach new users and grow usage.

Tonight we're introducing a new feature to make it even easier for users to share applications with all their friends, including those who may not be Facebook users already. In the friend selector as shown below, we've added a new link for users to invite friends who aren't on Facebook. Any invitations sent through this flow are not counted towards allocation limits. To simplify this page for users, we have also consolidated the tabs and different views of friend lists and networks into a dropdown menu.

When a user invites friends who aren't on Facebook, a special email is sent which invites the recipient to the application and become friends with the sender. When the recipient accepts the invite, they are taken to a special Express Registration page to sign up quickly for Facebook and to the application. Once that user joins, they automatically will have the application bookmarked and the application will be promoted on the new user's home page.

Please note that this feature is available with the fb:request-form of multi friend selector for sending invitations. This feature currently applies to invitations only, not requests. (invite=true with fb:request-form)

We hope you'll enjoy this feature and that it brings lot more friends to your applications.