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I'm looking for a presentation, PDF, blog post, or whitepaper discussing the technical details of how to filter down and display massive amounts of information for individual users in an intelligent (possibly machine learning) kind of way. I've had coworkers hear presentations on the Facebook news…

Typically I develop my websites on trunk, then merge changes to a testing branch where they are put on a 'beta' website, and then finally they are merged onto a live branch and put onto the live website. With a Facebook application things are a bit tricky. As you can't view a Facebook applicati…

I have looked in vain for a good example or starting point to write a java based facebook application... I was hoping that someone here would know of one. As well, I hear that facebook will no longer support their java API is this true and if yes does that mean that we should no longer use java to…

I am looking for a way to connect to Facebook by allowing the user to enter in their username and password and have our app connect to their account and get their contacts so that they can invite them to join their group on our site. I have written a Facebook app before, but this is not an app as …

I have not seen much support for Grails to develop facebook apps.I was just wondering if people around are developing facebook apps on grails

Just want to know what is better way to get start developing faccebook app?Any tutorial recommnedation?And which is better to start up -php or rails?

Since Rails is not multithreaded (yet), it seems like a threaded web framework would be a better choice for a Facebook application. (reason being is cuz each Rails process can only handle one request at a time, and facebook actions tend to be slow, because there is a lot of network communication b…

How can I make a Facebook RSS application that autoupdates from the provided RSS feeds. Of course doing this is trivial for canvas applications, but I need this for showing on the Facebook Page. All the RSS apps I've taken a look at either dont update or dont work on Facebook Pages. Especially…

I do not understand how I can authenticate a user in a Facebook Flash application. I have read from the documentation that Facebook platform gives arguments, such as user id and session secret, to the Flash application, but how can I inside the Flash application make sure that these arguments are …

I have a TurboGears application I'd like to run through Facebook, and am looking for an example TurboGears project using pyFacebook or minifb.py. pyFacebook is Django-centric, and I can probably figure it out, but this is, after all, the lazy web.

I'm considering experimenting with game development. Which is a better investment of my time, learning XNA or learning how to write a Facebook game?

I'd like to have a link for a user to join a Facebook group from within my Facebook application. Here is the link on Facebook's "display a group" page (minus a longer referrer part), but the group id is encrypted: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?sid=c431b3cfc02765def331081f8b71ffbd …

There is a list of projects here , mainly the Facebook Developer Toolkit and Facebook.NET . However, I've seen a lot of negative feedback about the toolkit and it seems like Facebook.NET hasn't been upgraded to the latest facebook API. Are either of these worth using? Any other good libraries o…

I'm trying to access the Facebook API Admin.getMetrics method via jQuery. I'm correctly composing the request url on the server side (in order to keep my app secret secret). I'm then sending the url over to the browser to be request using jQuery.getJSON() . Facebook requires that I send a copy …

any bit of info will be helpful here. or does anybody else huge do something interesting here too?