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Now anyone can start their own Flash Games Empire on Facebook thanks to “Instant Fb Games”, a simple software tool that will have you launching monetized games packed with viral features like leaderboards, score posting to wall, invites and more.

Games on Facebook are big business.  They are naturally viral by nature and often the competitive nature of players draws them in as they try to beat their friends scores.

The ad revenue that can be made from flash games on Facebook is massive, thats why so many big players are in the business.

But wouldn’t it be great if the average Joe could grab a slice of that action?

Facebook has 600 MILLION active users (as of January 2011) and an application database of over 550,000 applications (as of May 2010).  Many of those are Flash Games but until now it took a programmer and a design team to put something together to get a slice of the pie.

But now there’s a push button tool that instantly creates monetized Flash games for Facebook in less than five minutes.

Instant Fb Games

Free Info Click Here

If you act fast you can snap up a copy of “Social App Creator” for less than half price.

Social App Creator builds random phrase and horoscope type applications for Facebook.  These crazy little apps can really pull in big ad revenue because although they are simple the virality of them can make them spread like wild-fire.

Back in December last year I sold just one application that had grown on its own through the viral features.

I also used to sell these apps in an “install it yourself” package for £25 each (about $45 USD).  But now you can get a tool that builds these apps in minutes.

Social App Creator Software.

Check it out here: http://www.socialappcreator.com

I get emails almost every week asking me to start offering Facebook apps again.  Probably because I always strived to put out applications that followed the Facebook rules but still maintained good viral results.

It’s amazing how many apps are being sold that break the Facebook guidelines and then the poor folk that bought them in good faith find their FB account closed down or the app banned.

So I will be releasing iframe versions of some of the apps I used to sell.  These will be total re-writes but if you purchased an app from me that used the old system I will give you the new version for free.

More on this coming soon.

Andy

The depreciation of the Facebook template feed system has been extended to the 5th of January 2010 to give developers a little more time to update their apps to the new system.

Here is what Facebook said…

We are delaying the deprecation date to January 5, 2010 at 10AM PST.

We want to remind you that starting on that day, the only way to publish Feed stories into the stream will be via the stream publishing methods (stream.publish, FB.Connect.streamPublish, and Facebook.streamPublish). Posts published using the stream publishing methods contain only structured plain text data, which makes them easier to render on a variety of devices, including mobile phones and gaming consoles.
This means that we will discontinue support for the following:

• Template bundles. You should start using stream attachments with the stream publishing methods instead.
• feed.publishUserAction
• feed.publishTemplatizedAction
• Facebook.showFeedDialog and FB.Connect.showFeedDialog
• The FBFeedDialog class on Facebook Connect for iPhone. Please use FBStreamDialog instead.
• Publisher stories that use templates (please transition them to use stream attachments).
• Feed forms that reference the feedStory form and the multiFeedStory form.
• One-line stream stories.

We will still publish stories that call users.setStatus and status.set, but encourage all developers to migrate to the stream publishing methods, as they let you set a user’s status easily.

We would like to assure our customers that ALL the applications we sell already use the new feed publishing system and so you need do nothing – your apps will continue to work.

I spent almost five years living in the USA before returning to the UK.  While I was there I came across a guy by the name of Steve Humprey.  He is a programmer but he has this uncanny ability to be able to explain how to write and change code so that anyone can understand it.

If you are building monetized sites or you want to do your own Facebook apps then learning PHP is a very sensible step. 

But it looks so complicated doesn’t it?

It doesn’t have to be.  This is not B.S. and I highly recommend it…

Learn to use PHP in two hours.

Some of the stream changes on Facebook come into effect next Tuesday. 

As Facebook announced on the developer blog on October 23rd (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=321), the way that stream stories are rendered is changing.  From Next Tuesday one action link will be shown, and only the first 25 characters of that action link.  Also formatting characters will be stripped out (things like  ”[“, “{” and “|”).

These are not massive changes but they will affect all existing applications and will change how their stories appear.

For more updates and details keep an eye on the Facebook Developer wiki.  Here is a link to the developer roadmap – http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Developer_Roadmap

We’ve just concluded an interesting facebook application experiment. We took two simple apps that were both built on the same basic code. They picked a random phrase and output it along with a random number.

We made one application a “fortune cookie app” which gave the user a lucky number and an amusing and often nonsense phrase like you would find in a real fortune cookie.

The other was a much more morbid ‘how and when will I die?’ application which used the random number to tell the user how many years they had left to live and the random phrase became the predicted method of death.

We got two facebook users (members of our team) to spend 15 minutes a day promoting by joining groups and publishing feeds to their wall, etc. Both members had roughly the same number of friends on their lists, etc. To keep it even more fair they would swap apps each day so if one was slightly better at promoting that than the other it should all even out.

The results on the growth of the two apps was astonishing…

Read entire article.

As we reported a few days ago the way that Facebook feed stories work is changing to a new system.  The new system can be used right away, but the old system will be depreciated (in other words it will stop working) on 20th December 2009.

If you have looked into the new system of feed stories on Facebook it may have left you a little bemused. The example code they give is a little confusing and doesn’t quite work ‘as-is’.

After much experimenting, hitting my head against the proverbial wall and wading through page loads of posts on the developer forum from people who clearly were having similar problems, I came up with some code that works.

Let us look at this example first which requests extended permissions and then posts a feed to a users wall.  Extended permissions is the new feature where your application has to ask the user to grant permission to access or post to their wall, send them email, have offline access, send them email, etc.

The good news is that buried deep in the explanations on the Facebook developer site it turns out that there is still a way to simply pop up a request to post a feed to the users wall without the extended permissions but it is not accessible directly from the php library. However I will show you that code in a moment.

If you haven’t already you will need to download the latest facebook php libraries.  As always these are downloadable from

http://svn.facebook.com/svnroot/platform/clients/packages/facebook-platform.tar.gz

Here is my modified version of the code which I have turned into a demo that asks you for extended permissions and then posts a sample feed to your wall.  You will notice that I only ask for ‘publish stream’ permission since it is all my application needs.  I would strongly recommend that you only ask for what is necessary as users are already going to be a little wary of granting permissions so the fewer you ask for the more likely the user is going to accept.

Here is the code: (there is a downloadable zip file with all the code samples at the end of this article).

Read entire article.

Facebook announced today that they are changing the way that feeds work. The full facebook announcement can be read in their developer blog at Facebook Development Blog.

Here are the key points in English along with a few questions that the documentation doesn’t do a great job of explaining.

First of all there are now two views a user can have, one is a news feed which is basically posts that a facebook algorithm determines are the most interesting. Things like how many comments, how unique it is and how many people ‘like’ the post will play some part. In their words…

* News Feed will focus on popular content, determined by an algorithm based on interest in that story, including the number of times an item is liked or commented on.
* Live Feed will display all recent stories from a large number of a user’s friends.

OK, so far so good, except you can expect to lose some viral traffic where users only view the news feed and facebook has not flagged your feeds as worthy enough to make it.  However according to facebook if these are engaging and interesting then you have nothing to worry about.  Of course how interesting anyone can claim ‘Joe Bloggs has made it to level 5 in the big magic spoon game’ is purely subjective.

The biggest concern is that they are depreciating the template feed system by December 20th 2009.

Hundreds of thousands of applications out there all need to be changed in the next two months! And considering the documentation is hard to follow at best they are not making it easy for the little guys.  But do not fear! We can break it down into English for you. Read entire article.