10. Publisher, Notifications, and Requests

Chapter 9, “Feed Stories, Feed Forms, and Templates,” introduced you to the basics of interacting with and producing content for the Facebook stream via Feed forms and the Facebook application programming interface (API). Facebook offers several other alternative communication channels for applications and their users that can greatly expand an application’s reach within the Facebook social graph, and ultimately, its potential for success.

This chapter first covers another novel way for application users to publish content to the stream via a special construct known as the Publisher. It’s unique in that it is more closely associated with an application user’s profile and Home page than it is with an ...

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