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Flash Facebook Cookbook

By : James Ford
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Flash Facebook Cookbook

By: James Ford

Overview of this book

Flash applications are popular and becoming increasingly social. With flash applications for facebook you can tap into a potential audience of half a billion existing users, their connections and affiliations, their uploaded images, posts, comments and more.The Flash Facebook Cookbook is packed with recipes for the Graph API and FQL, used for reading and writing data as well as interacting with Facebook anonymously or on behalf of an authorised Facebook User.The topics covered by the recipes in this Cookbook include working with News feeds, uploading Photos, searching for and plotting Places on a map and much more. The cookbook has recipes ranging from those that work without any authentication with Facebook to those that do, and act on behalf of a user. Packed with recipes that yield practical demonstrations of the Graph API functionality, the Flash Facebook Cookbook is an essential tool for Flash Platform developers.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Flash Facebook Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Checkins and Facebook Places

About the Reviewers

Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early eighties, with a particular interest in web and game development. He taught online programming for the European Social Fund and now owns a web development company in Italy where he also works as a lead programmer.

As a writer, he has worked as technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and he’s actually writing a book about Flash game development.

His blog, www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie programming.

Paulius Uza is an award winning Interactive Producer and Managing Partner at InRuntime Inc. Over the last nine years, Paulius has gained significant experience in various fields of digital advertising and technology by working with a world renowned brands such as MTV, Nokia, ZuluTrade, AAAFx, and Donzi Marine to name a few. Being an artist and a technology expert, Paulius combines best of both worlds by creating and delivering engaging digital advertising and interactive media experiences.

Paulius is a major contributor to open source community, with his software featured in hundreds of open source and commercial software projects such as Adobe Captivate.

During his free time he writes a blog about interactive design and programming topics at: http://www.uza.lt