As you all know, I’m italian, also if I am not living in Italy any more… Anyway the application is in italian, so many of you will not be able to understand it.

What it does? You can use it to calculate [...]]]> I have just finished, more or less, the development of my first official facebook application.

As you all know, I’m italian, also if I am not living in Italy any more… Anyway the application is in italian, so many of you will not be able to understand it.

What it does? You can use it to calculate your monthly net salary, starting from your total yearly income. It is quite useful… I have already another website offering this calculation and it is quite succesfull… about 1.000 users per day.

I am very curious to check the power of the social web! I ‘ll keep note of the number of users daily, in order to verify the virality of what I propose:) … 4ll let you know in some days.

I also put some links to the original website, in order to have a return in terms of users,  and increase the value of the website itself.

Does any of you could appreciate the value of social networks in the promotions of his website?

OHh.. I almost forgot to add the addresse of the application:

Stipendio netto

For sure you know this great social network, but I’m not so sure you know that it is very easy to create and publish applications on it.

You can even use your favourite language to create the application, as [...]]]> I will spend some posts to talk about applications on facebook, and what to do to create one.

For sure you know this great social network, but I’m not so sure you know that it is very easy to create and publish applications on it.

You can even use your favourite language to create the application, as the whole application will work through internet.

I have chosen PHP, but you can work in DotNet or one of the many other languages  that can produce webpages.

Why did I choose PHP?

Mainly because it is free and because I like the fact that I can develop in the same platform used by Facebook itself.

Now, everybody can download for free the Facebook PHP API.

You will find also a sample application, in order to get started easily.

Before starting developing, you will need to register on the developer application, within Facebook. You will be given a KEY, to use in your code.

Using a mix of API and FBML, the facebook markup language, you will then be able to add easily friends lists and other FB features to your pages.

SQL lovers will soon discover that they can use FQL, the facebook query language, to create queries qnd obtain data.

First action is to create a group in Facebook and invite your “in target” friends… do not invite everybody… you don’t want to loose credibility in spamming your friends!

Second action is to create a [...]]]> Of course, you are already aware of the importance of social networks in promoting your website, or in fine tuning your target.

First action is to create a group in Facebook and invite your “in target” friends… do not invite everybody… you don’t want to loose credibility in spamming your friends!

Second action is to create a group in Linkedin. OK, this is not suitable for all kind of websites, but if your audience is at least partially composed by professionals, you will find tons of potential new users.

For instance, I am going to launch a new website concerning parents and parenting.

What I did, was to create a new group in Linkedin called Parents’ Network. Of course Parenting is not the main issue in Linkedin, but you can be sure that there are thousands and thousands parents among their members!

This way, you can provide a meeting point there, and offer “side” services on your own website.

Have you already done something similar?