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Facebook Application Development and Developers

By steveh on Nov 4, 2011 |Computers

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Facebook has evolved from a relational website and application into a massive database with its own operating system level framework for application development. In layman terms this means that individuals can build mini widgets and software within the Facebook ecosystem and have them available for the 400+ million Facebook users to download from the Facebook marketplace. Imagine enlisting the services of a Facebook application developer to build a Facebook app for your business. The main pro to Facebook application development is the exposure to hundreds of millions of potential users at a minimal cost. Attracting users to an application or website for a signup is a substantial effort. Building an application within the context of Facebook allows you to market and bank on the users of Facebook to download it and share with their friends in the easiest way on the web. Businesses just have to look at the success of Facebook applications such as Farmville to realize just how profitable Facebook app development can be.
Facebook application developers use a combination of Flash, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, PHP and other technologies to build their applications using Facebook’s API. Additionally, some Facebook applications are developed in the Facebook Markup Language. Facebook’s API adds the vital social media layer on top of a Facebook application developer’s custom-written business application so that constant sharing, interaction and collaboration can occur.

The following are key reasons for businesses to develop Facebook applications:

1 – Engagement – Surely many of your current or potential customers make up the 500 million Facebook users and spend some part of their day using Facebook to keep track of people or events in their ecosystem. Building an application for Facebook provides you a great presence where your stakeholders already are.

2 – Go Viral - When a Facebook user downloads your business’ Facebook application it notifies each of their friends and contacts via the Facebook newsfeed. For example, if John Doe downloads an application that notification appears to each of his friends who obviously share similar news, views and interests as he does (they are ‘friends’ after all). Consequently, by seeing that John Doe downloaded a certain Facebook app then many of John Doe’s friends may go and download the same app and so on and so forth. As a result, the amount of people using your app exponentially increases. There is no better way to ‘go viral’ then on Facebook.

3 – Improve website traffic – By generating a dialogue or relationship with your current and customers through Facebook you can also drive them to your website or additional communication avenues. By downloading and agreeing to use your application these individuals have trusted your company brand or product to offer them a product or service (even for a nominal cost). This goes a very long way into turning them into bigger loyalists of your brand, product or service. Using Facebook application development services may become a nice compliment to your overall Internet marketing strategy to generate leads.
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