Facebook Application development

I dabbled briefly in making Facebook application a few months ago, but never really pushed it due to other commitments. What with recent new stories going on about how popular some Facebook apps get, and how much they can be sold for (!), I thought I'd give it another try.

My dev platform is .Net 2.0 with C# and SQL Server to back it up, all hosted on Windows 2003.

My idea is kind of time critical, so I need to start working on it now (well, after XP has installed it's latest updates and rebooted...)

Things I need to think about is how integrated into profiles is the app going to be? Is it just going to sit there, or should it add message to the user's news feed? Should it be shareable, and therefore send messages to friends? I need to think it through...

Anyway. We start here on 6th November with nothing written. No concrete plans, no installed users. Nothing. Except we have reserved a Facebook application name and got an API key to use.

Let's see if (a) I get the time to dedicate to this to get something up and running (b) and how many installed users we get before the end of the year if I get it done in time! :-)