After several application attempts, I was pleased to discover earlier today that our Facebook application has finally been accepted into the Facebook Directory.

I actually finished developing the Facebook application for welovelocal.com a day before the official release but we have had some difficulties getting it into the public directory - two of our applications were rejected for not using Facebook Platform features, even though we really were!

There was speculation that because you have to have an account on welovelocal.com before you can use the application, the Facebook guys were just declining it and I think that is probably accurate. I eventually ended up e-mailing them directly to explain the problem and it seems to have resulted in us getting approved.

In other Facebook related news, watch out for an in-depth tutorial I have written on how you can utilise the Facebook Platform to make the most of their gazillion users and provide useful content for profiles whilst also promoting your own site/service…