Social network services are so hot now on the Internet that people's behaviors are influenced by their friends on social networks. Integrating the Flash virtual world with social networking features can help to spread the virtual world. News and screenshots of the virtual world will spread from one friend to other friends and increase the exposure.
There are too many social networking services to cover all of them. We just discussed several key features of Facebook and Twitter. As almost all social network services provide API for third-party developers, similar techniques can be applied to integrating the Flash virtual world into other social networks.
We have discussed and created a very basic Flash virtual world in the previous chapters. In the next chapter, we will discuss the deployment and maintenance of the virtual world. We will also have a brief introduction on how we can extend our virtual world into other platforms that SmartFoxServer supports.