The power of social and the power of enterprise software as a service are coming together. Now, you can tap into the power of the social graph from the enterprise cloud. Force.com for Facebook is a toolkit that makes it easy to develop for Facebook Platform on the Force.com enterprise cloud platform.
With this toolkit, developers are given direct access to the Facebook APIs directly within Force.com's Apex Code, enabling the creation of new social graph applications and user experiences that connect directly to Force.com's Sites, database, integration, logic, and Visualforce user interface capabilities.
Force.com for Facebook will power a new class of enterprise applications on Facebook with Facebook Platform, and off of Facebook with Facebook Connect. Applications built and run on Force.com automatically receive all the benefits of a proven enterprise platform, including security and sharing models, workflow, analytics, customization, integration, and mobile access as well as the reliability, availability and global scale of salesforce.com's trusted infrastructure.
Easy Creation of Social Enterprise Applications
Force.com for Facebook is a free set of tools and services that will enable developers to harness the power of the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect and the Force.com platforms for building social enterprise applications. The toolkit provides easy access from within Force.com Apex Code to the capabilities of Facebook social app development including full support for FQL and API calls, FBML generation for native Facebook applications, XFBML support for Facebook Connect apps, profile presence support, custom components for Facebook pages and more.