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Bebo

Here are my slides from my presentation this morning at GSP East. Please let me know if you have any questions.
You can also get them on slideshare here.

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Here is my slide deck from GSP East workshop on creating a Bebo Application.
Link to Slideshare.com. The notes for each slide contain additional information useful in building your first application.
Post any questions below or on the Bebo Forums.

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John Maver and Cappy Popp will be presenting at the GSP East Intro To Facebook and Bebo Applications workshop at 9:00 on Monday, June 9th in Washington, DC. Stop by and say hi, if you are there.
http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/public/schedule/detail/3272

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A tutorial in how to build a Bebo Application using PHP. Shows how to build a canvas page, profile box, generate news stories, and allow invites.

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fb:ref is a way to set a placeholder on a bunch of user profiles, and then update it across all those profiles with a single call. It makes sense to use when you have data or images that would need to be updated occasionally, but are not specific to the current viewing user. Some examples [...]

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One of the first questions we usually are asked by potential clients of Thought Labs involves ROI (return on investment.) It is a valid  and critical question, no matter the size of  the company or its marketing budget. It’s the yardstick used when evaluating the success of a traditional media campaign, so why not expect [...]

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John has been spending a lot of time over the past few months trying to actively participate in the Bebo Developer forums. After working on the Inner Circle and Doorbell applications for Facebook, he had learned a lot about the platform. As we worked to port those applications over to Bebo, John thought that he [...]

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Bebo is still working on fixing performance problems, and the applications are still down. In a blog post today, the Bebo developers talked about some features that they will be releasing in the near future.

More visible Notifications and Requests – they are going to redesign the home page to show these off more.
Profile application index [...]

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Bebo posted this today:

Bebo is slow. Sorry! It’s been growing a lot recently and we’re not quite keeping up with the demand. Even though apps has nothing to do with the problem, we turned off apps temporarily to help reduce the load. We’re working hard on a permanent fix and hope to have it all [...]

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The Facebook API does have a way to set and get cookies, but it is in beta so is not currently part of the FB PHP libraries. I found it out by searching through forums, by trial-and-error, and on the FB Beta docs page. There are 2 functions available:
 
data.getCookies( user_id, cookie_name );
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