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Microsoft + Facebook Partnership

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Today at Facebook F8, Corporate Vice President Dan'l Lewin announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook.

 

  • Popfly Facebook Block: Available immediately, we've added the Facebook block which prodices access to Facebook data including the User Profile, Friends, Photos, Photo Albums, and Events.
  • Leverage Existing Blocks: You can build Facebook applications using Popfly blocks like Flickr, Digg, Soapbox, Twitter, Windows Live, Xbox Live, and Virtual Earth.
  • Silverlight Support: Another big win here is Facebook has native support for Easily build next generation applications using Silverlight. With 24 million users and 40 billion page views a month, this is a huge, huge win for getting native Silverlight support on Facebook
  • Visual Studio Support: The Facebook Developer Toolkit enables developers to build applications for Windows, Web, or Microsoft Office.

Here's a screenshot

 

And here's a view of the results, the images are dynamically retrieved from a user's profile.

 

 

It's not just Popflyers, any of the 14 million Visual Studio Express downloaders (and pro Visual Studio customers as well) to build Facebook applications using the Facebook Development Toolkit and build application ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms and any other

 

Check out the Showcase page for more information including ASP.NET Quickstarts and video tutorials.

For configuration on Popfly, click the "Needs Key link on the Facebook block" or select the Video Tutorial and you'll see a Facebook configuration block

 

Big props to Doug Handler and Christopher Griffin on our team, the adCenter team, the non-pro team, and Dave Morin and the rest of the Facebook team. Perhaps I'm biased, but this is the biggest developer partnership from Microsoft I can think of.

 

I'm at the all-night hack-a-thon so I'll be publishing live pictures a bit later.

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  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.virtual-generations.com/2007/05/25/facebook/

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2007
    William Your arguments do not make sense. Those 25 million members or so who joined facebook did so to use its proprietary features and not as investors or owners. You need to be able to slice through this common sense. Every successful business out there in the marketplace is so on the backs of it's users or customers. You just don't make any sense...  

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2007
    Very exciting!  Congrats to you and the team(s) from Microsoft and Facebook for making this happen! jon

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2007
    Facebook es un sitio de redes sociales que ha crecido enormemente en los últimos meses. Imaginense un

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
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