Social Networking sites are becoming a dominant marketing force with Facebook being one of the leading Sites. Anyone who has a Facebook account will have seen all the available apps that you can add to your profile. These apps do not reside on the Facebook server, they reside on your server and utilize your code and Facebook code. During this session we will look at how we can create a Facebook application that uses ColdFusion. We will look at the Facebook Code and review any pitfalls we may expect to find on the way.

API's are becoming common place with all big web sites. Sites such as Google, Yahoo! and Twitter are all giving you access to API's that give you access to their data. Why? Is this something that you should do for your web site? Not only will we discuss why you should create an API we will also look at how you can create one. We will review some different concepts when creating API's and look at some of the things you need to watch out for. By the end of the presentation you will be ready to create a secure and useful API.