A blog about Social Media by John Maver and Cappy Popp
In late January Facebook finally added support for HTTPS, allowing users to browse the site securely. HTTPS provides a combination of the HTTP and SSL protocols, enabling encrypted communication between a user’s computer and a web server. Using HTTPS to access the site – though undoubtedly slower – protects users from sniffing attacks on public networks. Sniffing [...]
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A big congratulations goes out to our client AVG Technologies who just ranked 15th in the Social Brands 100! It’s now the number 2 technology company behind Dell. Among the companies that AVG outranked are well known brands such as Amazon, Sony Playstation and Nokia which speaks volumes of the hard work put in by our community [...]
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Today Facebook presented a 6-month developer roadmap. Finally – it’s been frustrating as hell writing a book about Facebook and not knowing what was coming from them and when, not to mention staying abreast of all the changes for our clients. In their presentation Facebook said that there were not many or big changes being [...]
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Cappy Popp will be speaking at a MITX event Wednesday, June 24, 2009 on a panel titled, ’Web Marketing on a Shoestring – Being Scrappy in a Down Economy’. The second installment of the MITX Marketing Technology Series, an educational series designed to explore the platforms, systems and infrastructures that allow marketers to execute efficiently, will be [...]
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Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Center. You can view the video here. Along with Mike, Cappy was joined by the following panelists: Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, Community Roundtable Karen Rubin, [...]
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This is a very handy feature, especially if you have to write your code in Actionscript 2 for which the Flash CS4 debugger is terrible, terrible, terrible. Trace messages are great but when your Flash .swf is running in a browser, and needs to (for instance if it is running on a Facebook application and [...]
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