Facebook’s Like Button for the Whole Internet – Here’s How it Works
Techcrunch today talked about a new “Like Button for the Whole Internet” which Facebook looks to be launching some time soon, and has been tested amongst several developers as they’ve been told. What they didn’t mention is that you can access the code for this right now in the code to the latest open source […]
Read more...Recurly Recurls Pricing – New Entrepreneurs Not Happy
Up until now I’ve been preparing a raving review about how much I love the recurring payment service, Recurly. Previously, at simply a fraction of the price of each payment on the service, it was very simple for any entrepreneur to get set up with the service and have an out-of-the-box solution for recurring payments […]
Read more...Changing the World Quite Literally Through Social Media
The rumor is out – I thought I’d make it official. This week I have started as the new Social Media Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In summary, I am in charge of the architecture and integration of Social Technologies for the Church. I will be in charge of finding […]
Read more...Google Re-Enables Adsense on RSS Feeds in Buzz
Some time in the last hour or two it appears that the Google Buzz team has re-enabled AdSense ads in RSS Feeds in Google Buzz. Recently I wrote about this, criticizing the service for stripping out ads a blog author was including and importing into Google Buzz. This included both RSS feeds directly imported into […]
Read more...Facebook Kills More Spammy Apps With New Policy Changes
A common technique used by developers to promote their apps very quickly on Facebook has been to tag all of a user’s friends in a photo. I’ve complained about this before. If you visit my Facebook Profile and look at the “photos of Jesse” section you’ll notice a few of these. They’re usually a single […]
Read more...Geeky: PHP Client Library That Works With the New Facebook Javascript SDK
Occasionally I write more geeky posts that I don’t expect all my readers to understand. I’m going to start prefacing those with “Geeky:” so you can know to ignore them in the future. This is obviously one of those, so if the title doesn’t make sense to you, I don’t blame you for skipping over […]
Read more...Facebook Goes After Their Trademark in Popular Domains
It’s common practice, and perhaps necessary for large companies to protect their Trademark. I’ve written before about Google going after an incorrect spelling of their own Trademark, on http://googleappsengine.com, because it resembles one of their products. Twitter is known to also go after domains with not only “Twitter” in the name, but “Tweet” and even […]
Read more...Facebook Starting to Test Fan Page Notifications
My wife just got an interesting e-mail notification from Facebook about a Facebook Page she is a fan of. The notification was a summary of the activity on the Page for the day. The text of the e-mail goes as such: “Here is this week’s summary for the Facebook Page: ************** 0 Fans this week […]
Read more...Not Using a Service Any More? Here is the Polite Thing to Do:
The Social Web is full of Nomads. We try out a service, set up camp, and constantly move from place to place as we discover new and better places to settle down our social presence. I’m no stranger to this myself. I’ve given up my share of services in the past, and I am far […]
Read more...Twitter Launches Facebook Connect Competitor, @Anywhere
I’ve long talked about the MVC model of the Building Block web. Data Repositories like Amazon Simple Storage, Facebook Data Store, Google Data, and others comprise the Model of this new platform. APIs like the Twitter API, the Facebook server-side APIs, or other REST-type APIs compose the Controllers of this web. Then you have the […]
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