I've written my first Facebook app tonight, and after I worked out the kinks, it's all running pretty smoothly. I should be able to learn a lot from this, and so the next app I write will be a lot easier and quicker (though writing an app in one night isn't bad :). Of course, when I say app it's really a kind of simple portlet, with a component for the user, and then some text displayed on the profile page.
The Facebook api has been out a little while, though I've only recently got involved. I read on TechCrunch that a Facebook app recently sold for US$3m ... not bad!! I can see why though; if you write a useful app that gets a few million users, thats some valuable eyeballs to someone out there.
My app still needs a bit of polish, plus it needs to go on the live server, all of which I will do tomorrow night. I will probably also stick some Google ads down the bottom of the user page .. just in case ;)
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