By Jeff on September 4, 2009
Just checking out some of the new widgets over at FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/index.php
R/GA | Promote Your Page Too
Posted in Facebook Development, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on August 10, 2009
FriendFeed, a social media tracker created in 2007 by a gang of ex-Googlers, has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount.
“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive, in a news release. [...]
Posted in Social | Tagged FaceBook, FriendFeed, Social |
By Jeff on June 17, 2009
Pages for companies, they are a boon for marketers online, but how many of them are tied back to personal profiles? I ask because if you are thinking about setting up a page on Facebook for your company, you should think about creating a business account on Facebook. The best part is that [...]
Posted in Flash, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Facebook Pages, Social |
By Jeff on June 16, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Facebook Development, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Facebook Pages, Social |
By Jeff on June 1, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Facebook Development, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on April 23, 2009
The State Farm sponsorship is only the latest example of outsiders leveraging Facebook for commercial purposes without paying Facebook a penny. But it’s still perhaps just the beginning.
“Facebook doesn’t want to be biggest social network on the internet,” said Joe Marchese, president of Social Vibe, a company that brings brands into social environments such as [...]
Posted in Social | Tagged FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on April 16, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Facebook Development, JavaScript, Social | Tagged ActionScript, FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on April 16, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged ActionScript, FaceBook, Flash, Social |
By Jeff on April 14, 2009
You may be asking yourself, “Why do I need social networking?”. If you are asking that then you may not be expanding your presence online like you should. Social sites like Facebook and Twitter are dominating the marketplace now and a lot of brands have still been slow to respond. There [...]
Posted in Advertising, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged Branding, FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on April 14, 2009
While most people may think that you can only develop Facebook apps in PHP, they would be wrong. You can actually do it all in Flash or even ColdFusion. Adobe recently announced the work they have been doing with Facebook to enable Flash to work directly with FB:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/
This is great news for the Flash community [...]
Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Advertising, ColdFusion, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Flash, Social |