Not to be outdone by MySpace announcing a deeper partnership with Microsoft yesterday, bringing Silverlight technology to its development platform and mobile application, Facebook and Adobe are today announcing a partnership and the release of fresh Flash client libraries to make it easier for developers to plug into the Facebook Platform inside their social applications built with Flash.
Flash has been supported since the launch of Facebook Platform in 2007 through tags, embedding Flash in Feed stories, and multiple client libraries, which have helped developers make Facebook API calls directly from ActionScript (see example on the Red Bull website). But Facebook felt the exisiting ActionScript client libraries were not up to par, so it teamed up with Adobe to tweak the open source version to support all Facebook APIs and add some features to better support authentication for both Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
After the PHP, JavaScript and iPhone client library, the all new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform is now the fourth officially supported client library for the Facebook Platform. The code can be downloaded here.
Facebook and Adobe Systems will share more about the new partnership on April 2 at a San Francisco event.
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Very nice !
That’s a good news.. Thanks for the update..
Look at this example app from Ryan Stewart! http://blog.dig...flash-platform/
good news , thanks for your sharing !
this is definitely helpful. Facebook is going places!
Oh boy, this news couldn’t come any better. We’re providing free Flash Components on our newly launched start-up http://www.flabell.com and Facebook can be one great way of mass distribution.
Thanks for sharing, I will go ahead and check the AS3 library right now!
Touche Facebook!!!! Have to say im a little excited to see what this partnership will bring in the way of marketing applications.
Good move on FB part. Still doesn’t address my (developers) toughest problems w.r.t hosting, scaling and also easily using the FB APIs. Check out http://www.zembly.com.
Last thing I want is MORE Flash….
Bloatdobe can burn for all I care.
waaaaaaaahhhhh. cry baby.
My love/hate relationsihp with MSFT goes deep, but I gotta’ tell you I am really digging Silverlight. Something MSFT did really right! Separating the UI from the logic, fast, flexible. Maybe not fully up to Flex yet but closing in fast. Really, really liking working with Silverlight….
This really unleashes the power of Flash across the Facebook platform. We are going to see some impressive apps come out of this API. Sprout is already created a working App that leverages the AS 3.0 client library. seen here: http://is.gd/pW6x
Ryan stewart also built an app that syncs up via FB connect and allows multiple people to collaborate in realtime. Seen here: http://is.gd/pVzf
Very excited about the potential this holds for flash and fb.
Doesn’t Microsoft own a large part of Facebook? Didn’t they invest a crapload into it and hence why we have the 15 billion valuation?
I would of figured that Facebook would have better Silverlight integration by now. There are articles out there now, but its not as formally supported.
Touche Facebook!!!!
Why do these guys feel they have to do Flash or Silverlight, why not both.
Grow up, stop trying to pick winners, let end users select the best solution to their problems, it’s independent of either technology(unless it requires threading, which Flash can’t do).