Facebook App

facebook integration

We are facebook App appId =110412772419214. Facebook demographics still seem to be a reasonable match for a UK audience even if it doesn't reach school-kids or college students as much as we'd like.

We use facebook to oAuth users, store and retrieve Good Deed open-graph objects in facebook and hold facebook conversations on each Good Deed. All our data is stored by facebook for free; we have no desire to maintain a backend of our own when we can benefit from these free tools:

• Moderate Good Deeds
• Moderate conversations about Good Deeds

from Javascript

Good Javascript SDK examples:

• Hello World
• Example game
• Video tour of Simon's Food App
• Real-world example
• Video presentation of the Object API
• Comprehensive working example

We might use Backbone.js as our Model-View-Controller (MVC) so all these seem like they could be useful:

• Tutorial
• Intro to backbone worked examples
• Backbone.API.Facebook
• Offline local storage (because mobiles are not always connected to the Internet)
• Infinite scrolling lists
• bidirectional DOM bindings
• Parse - one of the best Backend-as-a-Services

Alternatives to evaluate

• Maybe we could use Disqus for our conversations instead?
• Programmable Web lists lots of other APIs