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Welcome to the Facebook Developer Wiki!

We released Facebook Platform in 2006 so our developers could create applications that allow our users to share and stay connected. Now, over 650,000 developers are helping make the Web more social.

You can build rich applications that run on Facebook and let users interact with each other. Or, with Facebook Connect, you can bring the social power of the Web to your own website.

About the Developer Wiki

The Facebook Developer wiki is a technical reference for developers interested in Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform is a standards-based Web service with methods for accessing and contributing Facebook data. We've made the methods as easy to understand as possible, and this wiki includes full documentation to help you learn more.

All content is created by the Facebook team with help from our developers, so feel free to contribute! We currently have 1,144 articles. See the most viewed articles.

Attention Facebook Users: The Developer wiki is not the place to ask questions regarding your profile or your account. Please look for the answer to your question in our Help Center -- http://www.facebook.com/help.php. There are other resources there that may help you find a solution if you don't find your answer in the Help Center itself.

Getting Started New to Facebook Platform? Visit the Platform Developer site. Read these frequently asked questions. Scan these how-to guides. Understand the components of a Platform application. Familiarize yourself with the Platform Guidelines. Learn these best practices. Put the Facebook Developer application on your profile. Consider implementing Facebook Connect for your site. Try out our demo applications. Get started! Are You an Experienced Facebook Platform Developer? Understand the Platform Core Components. FBML or IFrame? Read this to help you decide. Download a client library. Learn how to create Feed stories. Create a Platform application. Test out Platform code with these code testing tools. Contribute to the community. Facebook Platform Support Resources

What's New on Facebook Platform? Add a Live Stream Box to your application or site and let your users comment and share in real time on a massive scale. Please take a few minutes and share your thoughts with our Community Pulse survey. Use the comments.add and comments.remove methods in the Comments API so your application can add and remove comments on a user's behalf. Facebook is now an OpenID relying party. If you're an OpenID provider, familiarize yourself with the technical requirements. Apply for the whitelist so you can publish to your users' streams with the Open Stream API. Read the updated Platform Guidelines, which streamlines Platform Policy. Learn more about why we made the changes. Start accessing users' and Facebook Pages' streams with the Open Stream API. Your applications can read from users' and Pages' News Feeds and publish directly into the stream with user permission. Read from the user stream using the open Activity Streams standard. Try out Facebook for Adobe AIR, a Facebook Desktop application that reads your stream and lets you publish back into it. Facebook for Adobe AIR can connect to the REST server directly or using the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform. Learn about the streams on the new Facebook home page and how your application or website can get more effective and consistent distribution in Feeds (and read the latest blog post. Push Changes - June 30 2009, the latest set of check-ins from Platform engineers.

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