How to Customize Your Facebook Page
I get asked a lot how to customize your Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P”, not to be confused with your personal profile). I wrote an article over on Tamar Weinberg’s (author of “The New Community Rules”) blog showing you what you need to do to get the most from your Page, including how […]
Read more...Introducing the FB Share Button WordPress Plugin for Facebook Share
Today Facebook launched a nifty little tool enabling website owners and bloggers to allow their users to better share and track their content on Facebook. The new tool provides a piece of HTML and javascript that renders a little “Share” button. When clicked, the post is tracked by Facebook, the number of shares is shown, […]
Read more...FBFoundations Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress
One of my biggest frustrations in adapting Facebook Connect into WordPress blogging has been the fact that most plugins out there either have too much, or too little incorporated into them. When you add more than one, you end up calling the Facebook Javascript Client libraries more than once, and often reinvent the wheel for […]
Read more...Social Coding: How to Code Twitter’s OAuth Using Net::OAuth and Perl
For the non-developers in my readership, I’m going to get a little geeky on you here. So you can either tune this one out, or pass it onto your IT staff for use in their applications. I promise much more on the “Social” side here shortly. Or, maybe you’ll learn a little Perl. For those […]
Read more...Automatic Data Compression With DBIx::Class::CompressColumns
UPDATE: You can now get the DBIx::Class::CompressColumns module on CPAN here or via CPAN command-line shell. I’m going to get geeky on you for a minute, but you should find this interesting. One of the challenges I’ve had with SocialToo recently has been the massive Social Graph data we’ve had to story and process and […]
Read more...Check Out My New Twitter Avatar!
If you check out my Twitter Profile, you’ll notice a new, winter-themed, festive Avatar. Yes, it’s animated, and everyone is going to hate me now for revealing how to do this. Check out my post on LouisGray.com to learn how it’s done. Consider it my second gift to you this Christmas!
Read more...Social Coding Series: I’m In Your Social Graph, Hacking Your Life – a Howto
As the first entry to my Social Coding series I’m going to cover Google’s Social Graph API. I saw a demo of this at Google I/O in San Francisco and was so impressed that I immediately started hacking on it when I got home. Little did I know how powerful this API was and how […]
Read more...New Series: Social Coding
I’ve been contemplating for awhile now a good way to share what I know about Social Software Development and helping business owners, marketers, and developers learn how to set up their own social apps. Especially for developers, I know there are many out there looking for howtos and ways to learn more about starting their […]
Read more...Utah Startup Series: Bungee Labs
(Sorry it’s been awhile since my last blog – it took me several days to figure out how to get my Flip video imported and exported to and from iMovie. To make a long story short, if you want to export from iMovie and have both picture and sound, you must import your source as […]
Read more...Using Perl/Catalyst and Want to Use Sometrics? Try This.
I’ve been analyzing various Social Applications Analytics tools lately, and have recently stumbled upon Sometrics. Sometrics handles full Analytics for your Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace applications, and will actually utilize the Facebook API to retrieve demographic info about those visiting your Application. As I examine the other Analytics solutions for Facebook and other Social Network […]
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