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Bebo

For Doorbell on Bebo, I needed an easy way to play an arbitrary doorbell ring. Previously, I had been creating individual .swf files for each ring, and then using the <fb:swf> tag to put them on the page. I was using an AJAX callback to add them when the user clicked a doorbell. The swf was [...]

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We have finished porting Inner Circle for Facebook over to Bebo. It was much easier because of our experience porting Doorbell, and the quick updates Bebo has made to their platform to make it more compatible with Facebook. Their goal is 100% compatibility, and although there are only 4 developers, they are making good progress.
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Recently, we created a Bebo version of our Doorbell application for Facebook.
Here is what I did:

created a new app using the developer app. Used a new callback location.
Updated my db to handle the larger sized userid and sessionkeys
updated web server to handle the new callback location
forked my fb source code to a new Bebo version
included [...]

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Since Bebo finally opened up their platform for everyone a last week, we thought it would be fun to convert Doorbell for Facebook over to it.
Bebo supports most of the Facebook API, so converting wasn’t too hard. Most of the time was finding out the places where they don’t work the same. All the same functionality [...]

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