Facebook Development

Facebook: Profile application boxes going away & app tabs canvas space to shrink

There are 2 updates that are slated as coming early in 2010 according to the FB Developer Roadmap.  They may not seem major, but they could be.  No longer will your app be able to depend on users having your app on a user’s left narrow box.  App’s will now be confined even further and [...]

Facebook Testing New URL Shortener, fb.me

URL shorteners, like bit.ly, have become a popular way for people to share links on Twitter while taking up as few of the allotted 140 characters as possible. But saving space is just one of the benefits that shorteners provide. Others include getting traffic analytics like how many people are sharing links from which sites. [...]

Watch What You Say on Facebook

Because of Google, Watch What You Say On Facebook
Google recently announced a new real-time search feature to their well-used search engine. Under the new set of features, Google users will be able to track real-time conversations on sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
So, if you are a Facebook user and your profile is set [...]

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Facebook Page Badge

Just checking out some of the new widgets over at FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/index.php
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Facebook + Vanity URL’s = FAIL for brands…

Recently Facebook unveiled their new vanity URL scheme to the public. It was a great plan and quite a bit of time overdue for Facebook. The problem in my opinion was that they opened it up to profiles and pages at the same time. This has created a bit of a problem [...]

Customizing what gets shown in Facebook when a user share’s your page…

If you have ever wondered how you selected specific images or specific copy to add to facebook when a user shares your page on Facebook, there are some simple meta tags you can add to your html to make sure that your site/brand is being properly represented on the site…

Making Sure the Preview Works (For [...]

Facebook Page Metrics from Inside Facebook

Get information on the top pages on Facebook.  This is a cool way to check out some of the most popuplar pages on Facebook.
PageData – Facebook Page Metrics from Inside Facebook.
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Facebook Connect to Actionscript 3

Ok, now you may be asking yourself, why would I use this instead of the new Facebook Actionscript API that I talked about previously? That API is all good if you are working on a stand alone RIA, but I think it is really hampered by the process that you have to go through [...]

Facebook Actionscript API

The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
The Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform provide the ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Flash is available on [...]

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