Looking for a Facebook Internationalization WordPress Plugin
As I’m writing my book, I’ve come to realize that a good portion of you that visit here speak another language. In fact, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Facebook’s 2nd largest market (Indonesia, with over 200 million population), just so happens to have a high ranking in the readers of this blog as well, at least amongst […]
Read more...How is Quora Able to Auto-Like Posts on Facebook?
I’ve been contemplating a way to get Facebook like buttons to work with a brand’s own look and feel, so when you like it on a 3rd party site, it automatically likes the same Page (via Open Graph Protocol) on Facebook. This would be a User Experience Designer’s dream come true, especially those that I […]
Read more...Howto: Getting the Logitech Revue (Google TV) to Work With Comcast Cable Boxes
As I’ve Tweeted, Facebooked, and Buzzed about recently, Google sent me a Logitech Revue Google TV unit shortly before Christmas which I will probably be using to write apps for. There are many things I like about it, many I don’t, but I’ll save that review (no pun intended) for another date. I did want […]
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...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 […]
Read more...Facebook to Developers: "You Decide"
By the time I hit publish on this 5 other bigger blogs will have probably already covered this, but this deserves some praise. One reason I love the Facebook Platform is because they really seem to care about API developers. They do things the “right” way. For instance, they have a beta site where they […]
Read more...Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter
Every time I switch to jQuery, Yahoo’s YUI libraries seem to keep luring me back. Just yesterday, Yahoo added one more tool to its arsenal of YQL libraries that actually makes the Twitter API intuitive, giving me another reason yet to switch back to yui, or at least consider using Yahoo a little more as […]
Read more...Twitter Testing "OAuth Delegation" With Select Partners – Genius
A common complaint amongst Twitter developers has been that Twitter’s OAuth, the authentication process you see when you click the Twitter login button on a 3rd party website and go to a Twitter-looking page with a “Allow” or “Deny” button, is too complicated. Mainly, from a user experience perspective, users are required to leave the […]
Read more...Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider
About a month ago, Facebook’s David Recordon announced that Facebook was hard at work with the Open Standards Communities on a new OAuth protocol called Wrap. The goals of the protocol seem to specifically provide a way to direct a user through the authentication process through a client-only model, removing the need for developers to […]
Read more...Facebook Posts New Dashboard API Methods, Prepares New Interface
Early today Facebook posted a series of new API methods to their Developer Wiki enabling developers to post updates to what was previously called the “Application Navigation”, but what would now appear to be called “the Dashboard”. The Dashboard API aims to provide an easier interface for users to find updates to their favorite apps […]
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