The Facebook Journal

Hello readers!

First, please allow me to introduce myself, I’m Mostafa Berg, and I build some facebook apps, and still hacking around the iPhone world (Getting a game ready soon)

I wanted to share one of my hit apps game here, “Scratch & Win!”, It’s basically a scratch card game, where you scratch 3 free daily cards and win virtual prizes !. Read more…

As described in an official blog post from Facebook, you can now put an “Add Profile Tab” button in your application or site to prompt users to add your application tab to their profiles for easy re-engagement. All implementations using the JavaScript API can call FB.Connect.showProfileTabDialog or use the fb:add-profile-tab XFBML tag to render the button, while FBML applications can call Facebook.showProfileTabDialog or use the fb:add-profile-tab FBML tag to render it.

Using the JavaScript API for Connect

FB.Connect.showProfileTabDialog(callback);

This method renders an Add Profile Tab button on your canvas or Web page, enabling the user to add your application tab to his or her profile.

If the user already added your application tab, the button doesn’t appear.

You can determine if a user added your application tab by querying the tab_added field in the permissions FQL table.

The optional Callback function can be used to execute after this call completes. It takes one argument, which is a JavaScript object. The object has one key, tab_added, the value for which is 1 or 0.

Using an XFBML tag

<fb:add-profile-tab />

or, if you’re using Connect

<fb:add-profile-tab></fb:add-profile-tab>

Renders a button that lets a user add your application or site’s application tab to his or her profile. Make sure you specify a Tab Name and a Tab URL in your application settings (on the Profiles tab).

If the user already added your application tab, the button doesn’t appear.

You can determine if a user added your application tab by querying the tab_added field in the permissions FQL table.

The Facebook gifting craze is upon us. Do you receive random gifts from people you do not even know? Are you guilty of sending a snowball, starting a pillow fight, a Christmas decoration, a mixed drink or anything else to your entire friends list? Gift giving is going full throttle on Facebook. Why just say Hello to someone when you can say Hello with an item as well.

Now with our easy to use Gift Giving script you can create your own gift application. You control what gifts are available.

Version GiftApp3.6

Demos:
Jones Soda – http://apps.facebook.com/jonessoda/
All Holidays – http://apps.facebook.com/allholidays/

What’s New in Version 3.6:
- Upload feature for adding gifts. Simply browse and select the gift image and it uploads automatically.
- Help and Ticket system added so users can support a Help request and you can manage all tickets as an admin.
- Multi-Admin. Ability to have multiple admins if you wanted to have friends or partners help manage and add gifts, etc.

What’s New in Version 3.5:
- Categories! Create your own categories and allow users to select categories
from the send gifts tab.
- Admin ability to add points to a user.
- Leaderboard to show top senders and receivers.
- Send tab shows how many times a gift has been sent.
- Ability to add a link to each product that open up another webpage. Great to promote affiliate links or send traffic to a product page.
- Monetize with the program(s) of your choice: OfferPal, SuperRewards, or CPALead.Admin features:
- Only admin can add gifts
- Manage the cost to send each gift
- Add points to a user account
- Create categories for gifts
- Manage support tickets

Fully customizable. You do not have to be stuck with the same gifts. Simply delete the gifts and replace them with something new. Easy to do!

User Features:
- Users of your application can collect gifts. Even if you delete gifts to replace them with a different occassion, a record of sent gifts is still kept and users can view all gifts that they received by clicking the My Gifts tab.
- When a user selects a gift to send the script calculates the cost of the gift and the users point balance and allows the user to send the max amount of gifts at one time to save time.
- Leaderboard to show top senders and receivers. Creates competition between users to get on the top by using your application more.

Self Advertises:
- Viral marketing, advertising
- When a user sends a gift they will be prompted if they want to publish to their wall for others to see that they sent XYZ gift and to who from your app.
- When someone receives a gift sent from your app they too are prompted to publish to their wall advertising what was received, from who, and your app.

Has potential to explode and go viral!

Advertise your business!

Do you have a website you sell products from? How about a brick and mortar store front? Facebook has a huge audience and you can advertise your products by creating a gift application!

Place banners for your business throughout the application, name the application after your business AND make the gifts items you sell!

Your an Italian restaurant? Place items off of your menu as gifts. You sell antique toys online? Place antique toys as gifts. Just about any business can advertise their products using a gift app. Build up hype and get people interested in your business. After receiving a mouth watering pizza or an old toy you remember from your childhood people will look further into the business being advertised.

Affordable advertising! One time fee to buy the software and unlimited exposure.

Affiliates!

If you do not have a business, then promote someone elses! Ever hear of Harry & David pears? They are the world’s best tasting pears! Join as an affiliate of a well known product and create a gift application around their products. Placing your affiliate links and banners throughout the application.

Make money from your application!

Sending gifts costs credits. Users receive credits for free for logging into the app each day and by accepting gifts that are sent to them.

Should a user want to send gifts beyond the amount their credits allow them, then they can buy credits directly or take part in free offers such as singing up for other apps, shopping, surveys and more. This is provided by CPALead, Super Rewards OR OfferPal. Both will pay you for any actions your members do to get points.

Besides integrating with Super Rewards or OfferPal banner ads can easily be placed at the top of every page of the application. Rockyou Ads is a great company that shows Facebook related banner ads. You can even integrate with Google Adsense.

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Remember that time when you dropped your phone in the pool? Or when you lost it?
You were probably itching to send a text.
Or maybe you don’t have a phone or don’t have an unlimited texting plan.
Perhaps you’re an adult who hates typing on those tiny phone keyboards or just find it too complicated.

Click a Text (http://clickatext.com is our main site) fixes all of that by providing free and unlimited online text messaging. Our site and Facebook application let you type texts on the fly and send them with just the click of your finger.

By adding our application (http://apps.facebook.com/clickatext) or visiting our site, you can instantly send text messages directly to your friends from your computer. By registering (or submitting some info in the Facebook app), you also gain access to an address book to make texting easier than you thought possible.

While our main site incorporates extra features such as 2-way texting (no phone needed!), MMS (multimedia) messaging, and a sent text message logs, we plan to integrate these into our Facebook application very soon to provide all users exceptional functionality.

Add our app and experience blazing fast texting at http://apps.facebook.com/clickatext.

View our videos to learn how to send a text with our main website.

Think your the fastest typer on Facebook? Try us. Typer Challenge is possibly the first typing game on Facebook to have power-ups, you can use them to give you more time, and more, each power-up lasts 3 games.

Try it out click here

You could be the next typing champion!

Create a Gift App using our automated tool,  Gift Artist – http://apps.facebook.com/giftartist/ and we split 50-50 on the ad revenues generated from the ad banners displayed on your app.

We are the only FB app that gives you 50-50 revenue share and the transparency.  You will see the number of ad impressions your apps have generated and how much you have made. Payment is done weekly via PayPal.  If your gift app is promising, we will also spend money and time promoting your gift app.  Create a gift app now and Rock On! No programming needed.

LifeLine, tell your life in a line.

A life is made of events. Small or big they rhythm our existence.

Your first kiss, your hard earned diploma, this great holiday in France… With lifeLine, put all these significant events in a graph and show it to your friends. And catch up with those you haven’t heard of in a while!

From there you can invite friends to your life time events, add yourself to your friends’ or send them e-presents on their special occasions.

Features coming up soon: a quiz generator, a friend life line comparator and affinity checker to find out who you should make friend with from your friends networks.

Application available at http://apps.facebook.com/life_line/index.php

A basic video:

A better one is coming soon.

Happy lifeLining!